Akamatsu clan

The Akamatsu clan (赤松氏, Akamatsu-shi^?) was a Japanese samurai family of direct descent from Minamoto no Morifusa. They were prominent shugo-daimyō in Harima during the Sengoku period.

Select members of the clan

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• Akamatsu Norimura (1277–1350).^[1]
• Akamatsu Norisuke (1314–1371).^[1]
• Akamatsu Mitsusuke (1381–1441).^[2]
• Akamatsu Sadaura^[2]

See also

• Sesson Yūbai (1290–1348)
• Ōnin no ran, the Akamatsu were allied with the Hosokawa clan

Notes

References

• Hall, John Whitney. (1999). The Cambridge History of Japan: Medieval Japan, Vol. 3. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 10-ISBN 0-521-22354-7/13-ISBN 978-0-521-22354-6; OCLC 165440083
• Nussbaum, Louis Frédéric and Käthe Roth. (2005). Japan Encyclopedia. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. 10-ISBN 0-674-01753-6; 13-ISBN 978-0-674-01753-5; OCLC 48943301