Akamatsu clan

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Akamatsu clan
赤松氏
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Emblem (mon) of the Akamatsu clan
Home province Harima
Parent house Murakami-Genji (Minamoto clan)
Titles Various
Cadet branches Shinmen clan

Akamatsu clan (赤松氏 Akamatsu-shi?) is a Japanese samurai family of direct descent from Minamoto no Morifusa of the Murakami-Genji.[1]

History

They were prominent shugo-daimyō in Harima during the Sengoku period.

During the Ōnin no ran (1467-1477), Akamatsu Masanori was one of the chief generals of the Hosokawa clan.[2]

The head of the clan at Shizuoka in Suruga Province became a kazoku baron in 1887.[1]

The Shinmen clan were a branch of the Akamatsu.[3]

Select members of the clan

File:Harima The Akamatu Graveyard 01.jpg
Akamatsu grave markers at Harima

See also

Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 Papinot, Jacques Edmond Joseph. (1906). Dictionnaire d’histoire et de géographie du Japon; Papinot, (2003). "Akamatsu" at Nobiliare du Japon, p. 1; retrieved 2013-4-11.
  2. Varley, H. Paul. (1967). The Ōnin war: history of its origins and background, p. 75.
  3. Yoshikawa, Eiji. (1995). Musashi, p. 94.
  4. 4.0 4.1 Hall, John Whitney. (1999). The Cambridge History of Japan: Medieval Japan, Vol. 3, pp. 600-603.
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  6. 6.0 6.1 Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "Kaikitsu-no-hen," Japan encyclopedia, p. 456.

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