Shoke Chifu Sekki (諸家知譜拙記) is an Edo-period collection of house-by-house genealogies of the court noble families (tōshō), from antiquity to the Edo period.
Japanese names are given in Japanese order (family name first).
Overview
| Title | Shoke Chifu Sekki (諸家知譜拙記) |
|---|---|
| Scope | Court noble (tōshō, 堂上) houses, from antiquity through the Edo period |
| First written | 1686 (Jōkyō 3), supplemented in 1745 (Enkyō 2) |
| Printed edition | Kaisei Zōho Shoke Chifu Sekki (改正増補諸家知譜拙記), 1754; the National Diet Library lists Tsuchihashi Sadayo (土橋定代) as transcriber and Hayami Fusatsune (速水房常) as proofreader |
| Modern edition | Expanded edition published by Zoku Gunsho Ruijū Kanseikai, 1977 |
Contents
The work arranges its material by court noble house. It is often grouped with Shoka-den (諸家伝) as an Edo-period genealogy of court families. The name of the original compiler is not recorded in the sources consulted for this article.
Notes for Researchers
Because the work was supplemented after its first writing, note whether a citation refers to the 1754 printed text or the 1977 expanded edition. Compare each line with other genealogies, temple records and family documents.
Related
See the list of Japanese genealogy collections for other major works.
