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The ability for Japanese families to track their lineage over successive generations plays a far more important role than simply having the same name as another family, as many commoners did not use a family name prior to the Meiji Restoration, and many simply adopted (名字, myōji) the name of the lord of their village, or the name of their ...
K. Kagawa clan; Kamiizumi clan; Kamo clan; Kanamaru clan; Karita clan; Kasai clan; Katagiri clan; Katakura clan; Katō clan; Katsuragi clan; Kawakatsu clan; Kikkawa clan
The domain of the Taira clan in Japan (1183) Warriors of the Taira clan by Utagawa Yoshitora Along with the Minamoto, Taira was one of the honorary surnames given by the emperors of the Heian period (794–1185) to their children and grandchildren who were not considered eligible for the throne.
Date Tomomune, founder of the Date clan. The Date family was founded in the early Kamakura period (1185–1333) by Isa Tomomune who originally came from the Isa district of Hitachi Province (now Ibaraki Prefecture), and was a descendant of Fujiwara no Uona (721–783) in the sixteenth generation.
The Abe clan (安倍氏, Abe-shi) was one of the oldest of the major Japanese clans (uji); and the clan retained its prominence during the Sengoku period and the Edo period. [1] The clan's origin is said to be one of the original clans of the Yamato people ; they truly gained prominence during the Heian period (794–1185), and experienced a ...
This sentiment was later carried over to the Japanese archipelago by the Hata clan and other immigrant clans which arrived in Japan in the earlier centuries [20] and was given the name "稲荷 (いなり)" in kanji which means "carrying rice", (literally "rice load") first found in the Ruijū Kokushi in 892 AD.
Mogami clan (最上氏) were Japanese daimyōs, and were a branch of the Ashikaga family. In the Sengoku period, they were the Sengoku daimyōs who ruled Dewa Province which is now Yamagata Prefecture and part of Akita Prefecture. [1] The Mogami clan is derived from the Shiba clan that was a branch of the Ashikaga clan.
The Sakai clan (Japanese: 酒井氏, Hepburn: Sakai-shi) was a Japanese samurai clan that claimed descent from the Nitta branch of the Minamoto clan, who were in turn descendants of Emperor Seiwa. Serata (Nitta) Arichika, a samurai of the 14th century, was the common ancestor of both the Sakai clan and the Matsudaira clan , which the Sakai ...