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The old clans 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. After the Heian period, the samurai warrior clans gradually increased in importance and power until they came to dominate the country after the founding of the first ...
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 ...
It was mainly conferred to Hata and Yamato-no-Aya clans. Michinoshi (道師) —the fifth highest noble title. There is no record that this title was conferred. Omi (臣) —the sixth highest noble title. It was recorded to be conferred mainly on Soga, Kose, Ki, Katsuragi, and Hozumi clans. Muraji (連) —the seventh highest noble title. It ...
T. Tachibana clan (kuge) Tachibana clan (samurai) Taira clan; Tajihi clan; Takanashi clan; Takaoka clan; Takatsukasa family; Takeda clan; Takeda clan (Aki) Takenaka clan
Red: Toyotomi Hideyoshi Japan in 1600 (Battle of Sekigahara) Red: Western Army (Ishida Mitsunari, Mōri Terumoto) Cyan: Eastern Army (Tokugawa Ieyasu) Gray: Neutral Japan in 1614 (Siege of Osaka) Cyan: Tokugawa shogunate Red: Toyotomi Hideyori. This is a list of daimyōs from the Sengoku period of Japan.
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 ...
The domain of the Minamoto clan in Japan (1183) during the Genpei War. The protagonist of the classical Japanese novel The Tale of Genji (The Tale of Minamoto clan)—Hikaru Genji, was bestowed the name Minamoto for political reasons by his father the emperor and was delegated to civilian life and a career as an imperial officer.
The earliest historic written mentions of Japan were in Chinese records, where it was referred to as Wa (倭 later 和), which later evolved into the Japanese name of Wakoku (倭國). Suishō (帥升, ca. 107 CE) was a king of Wa, the earliest Japanese monarch mentioned in Volume 85 of the Book of the Later Han from 445 CE.