「四百年間のいのちの履歴書」シリーズ。
　家系史探究というのは直球的ドンピシャ感はなかなか得られにくい。あってもたまに、程度。
　約300年前に家系6代前先祖が、紀州から広島藩浅野家の転封と同時期に移入してきていることを掘り起こしてくれたので、これは確定。
　紀州からこの地へ藩主の転封と時期が一致していることから、当然「蓋然性」として藩との関係が解明ポイントとして出てくる。それが「紀州以前」というそれ以前の家系史探究のカギになる。
　そこで「急がば回れ」。言わば証拠固め的に広島・浅野藩のことを調査している次第。
　最近は「地域史」研究が盛んで浅野藩と重なる「広島県史」を図書館ネットワークで遠距離借り上げして熟読している。特に調べたかったのが「浅野長晟侍帳」という藩公式の家臣団記録。浅野長晟は紀州から広島に転封したときの藩主であり、この「侍帳」は1619年に記録された。
　そこに「原 勘兵衛」という重臣の名前を確認することができた。
　かれは、家臣団のなかでの「組頭」の位置付けで「原 勘兵衛組」の統率者として2,200石の家禄で記載されている。「組」とは家臣を機能的・身分的にまとめた軍事・日常業務の単位組織。戦時の部隊を基盤にしつつ平時は藩行政・警備・秩序維持を担う役割を持っていた。
　ちなみに記録されている組数は11組で45万石の大名家のなかの重臣クラス。浅野と名の付く一門衆を除けば上位数人の重臣。同組のなかには同じ「原姓」の縁者とおぼしき一統も名を連ねている。
　さらにこの浅野家成立過程での出仕時期は紀州に来る前の文禄年中の「旧臣録」でも名前が出ていたという。原氏が浅野家に仕えたのは甲斐の国主だった1592-3年頃との記述。その後1600年の関ヶ原の戦いで徳川方に味方し同年に紀州を領地として与えられた。
　そこから藩の転封でこの地にやってきた経緯。
　こういう背景情報の中で、この同姓の武家・原氏とわが家系の「関係性」を考えることになる・・・。

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【Hiroshima Domain Asano Clan “Samurai Register” lists senior retainer “Hara Kanbee” with 2,200 koku stipend】
Solidifying circumstantial evidence of the “connection” between the domain organization governing the region and my family lineage. Discovery of a senior domain retainer with the same surname. What is the connection between this samurai family and my lineage? …

　The “Four Hundred Years of Life’s Resume” Series.
Genealogical research rarely delivers that direct, spot-on feeling. If it does, it’s only occasionally.
It was confirmed that about 300 years ago, my sixth-generation ancestor moved here from Kishu around the same time the Asano clan was transferred to the Hiroshima domain.
　Given the timing coincides with the domain lord’s transfer from Kishu to this region, the relationship with the domain naturally emerges as a key point to clarify, based on probability. This becomes the key to exploring the family history “before Kishu.”
So, “Haste makes waste.” I’m currently investigating the Hiroshima Asano domain, essentially to solidify the evidence.
　Recently, “regional history” research has flourished. I’m thoroughly reading the “History of Hiroshima Prefecture,” which overlaps with the Asano domain, by borrowing it remotely through the library network. What I particularly wanted to examine was the “Asano Nagamasa Samurai Register,” the domain’s official record of retainers. Asano Nagamasa was the domain lord when they were transferred from Kishu to Hiroshima, and this “Samurai Register” was recorded in 1619.
　There, I was able to confirm the name of a senior retainer, “Hara Kanbee.”
　He is listed as a “group leader” (組頭) within the retainer corps, commanding the “Hara Kanbee Group” with a stipend of 2,200 koku. A “group” (組) was a functional and hierarchical unit organizing retainers for military and daily duties. Based on wartime units, they handled domain administration, security, and maintaining order during peacetime.
　Incidentally, the number of groups recorded was 11, placing him among the senior retainers of a 450,000-koku daimyo household. Excluding the Asano-named clan members, he was among the top few senior retainers. Within his group, individuals bearing the same “Hara” surname, likely relatives, were also listed.
Furthermore, his period of service during the formation of the Asano clan appeared in the “Old Retainers Register” from the Bunroku era, before his arrival in Kishu. They became retainers around 1592-3. The Hara clan served the Asano family when they were lords of Kai Province. Later, in the Battle of Sekigahara in 1600, they sided with the Tokugawa faction and were granted Kishu as their domain that same year.
　From there, they came to this region through domain transfers.
Against this backdrop, I find myself contemplating the “relationship” between this same-surnamed warrior family, the Haras, and my own lineage…

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Posted on 1月 28th, 2026 by 三木 奎吾
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