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The mon of the Toyotomi Clan, now used as the emblem of the Japanese Government; originally an emblem of the imperial family—a stylized paulownia.. Mon (紋), also called monshō (紋章), mondokoro (紋所), and kamon (家紋), are Japanese emblems used to decorate and identify an individual, a family, or (more recently) an institution, municipality or business entity.
The Ōta clan claimed descent from the Seiwa Genji via Minamoto no Hirotsune, a younger son of Minamoto no Yorimasa. [1] A 5th generation descendant of Hirotsune, Minamoto no Sukekuni, established himself in Kuwada District of Tanba Province (present day Kameoka, Kyoto) and adopted the name of the Ōta shōen as his own. [1]
Oda Nobunaga first claimed that the Oda clan was descended from the Fujiwara clan, and later claimed descent from Taira no Sukemori of the Taira clan.According to the official genealogy of the Oda clan, after Taira no Sukemori was killed in the Battle of Dannoura in 1185, Taira no Chikazane, the son of Sukemori and a concubine, was entrusted to a Shinto priest at a Shinto Shrine in Otanosho in ...
This is a list of Japanese clans. The old clans ( gōzoku ) mentioned in the Nihon Shoki and Kojiki lost their political power before the Heian period , during which new aristocracies and families, kuge , emerged in their place.
The Makino clan (Japanese: 牧野氏, Hepburn: Makino-shi) are a daimyō branch of the samurai Minamoto clan in Edo period Japan. [1]In the Edo period, the Makino were identified as one of the fudai or insider daimyō clans which were hereditary vassals of the Tokugawa clan, in contrast with the tozama or outsider clans.
Mōri Motonari (毛利元就, 1497–1571), arguably the most famous member of the clan. Expanded the clan's power to nearly all of the Chūgoku region . Mōri Takamoto (毛利隆元, 1523–1563), became head of the clan when his father "retired" but died young before his father, suspected assassination by poisoning.
The Inaba clan (Japanese: 稲葉氏, Hepburn: Inaba-shi) were a samurai kin group which rose to prominence in the Sengoku period and the Edo periods. [1] Under the Tokugawa shogunate, the Inaba, as hereditary vassals of the Tokugawa clan, were classified as one of the fudai daimyō clans.
The Matsunagas in this clan used the tsuta mon (ivy) as their family crest. Descendants of this clan continued to serve the Tokugawa Bakufu. Other Japanese people, who used the Matsunaga name but were not samurai retainers, originated from this area. Some emigrated to Hawaii, United States and Brazil in the late 1800s.