Ryūzōji clan

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The Ryūzōji clan (龍造寺氏, Ryūzōji-shi^?) is a family of conjective descendence from Fujiwara Hidesato—reputed as Defender of the North by Emperor Suzaku of Heian—rising to a prominent level of power within the Sengoku period of Feudal Japan. Being born into Hizen Province, the Ryūzōji served under the powerful Shoni clan—who possessed the favor of the Ashikaga Shogunate as the base reasoning behind their jurisdictional control—supporting them as a retainer family of ability among others. However, even with the influence and power that the Shoni may have possessed, the opportunistic Ouchi clan fell their domain by the early 1550's, at which the ambitious Ryūzōji Takanobu, using the highly probable conjecture that he was of direct descent to the famed Hidesato of Fujiwara, to declare rebellion in the year 1553, rising against the wounded Shoni and effectively overthrowing them in mere months. Destroying what remained of such a clan by the year of 1559, the Ryūzōji consecutively clashed against the Otomo clan of Bungo Province--who had sympathetically assisted the Shoni internally after the Ouchi's assault--more than a decade following, at which they would then follow against many other powerful forces such as the Shimazu clan. Unfortunately, Takanobu would be killed during the Battle of Okitanawate of 1584 against the Shimazu and its powerful influence, causing the Nabeshima clan, a subordinate clan under the Ryūzōji, to rise up and claim their seat of authority, declaring themselves as the new controllers of Hizen's Saga Domain that same year.