Jinbo clan

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The Jinbo clan were a family line that came to a noted existence by the Sengoku Period of Feudal Japan, initially occupying the province of Etchu. As it is surmised that the Jinbo had at one time been retainer to the Hatakeyama, they were regardlessly an independent and powerful force by the latter 16th century, consistently clashing against numerous Ikko-Ikki rebels of Etchu and the neighboring Shiina, who were considered as their respective rivals. Defeated by Nagao Tamekage within the year of 1520, a man by the name of Jinbo Nagamoto rose up to preserve the remaining power and credibility that the Jinbo possessed over Japan; but his actions would be to no avail following Uesugi Kenshin's assault upon Etchu, subsequently a result to the Shiina allying with the latter. As circumstance would have it, the Jinbo's domain, Toyama castle, was felled in the midst of such an assault, at length forcing their clansmen to become retainer to the Uesugi, forthwith becoming a single whole to the fortunes and aspirations of Kenshin.