Akamatsu clan
Emblem (mon) of the Akamatsu clan
In this Japanese name, the family name is "Akamatsu".
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.
The head of the clan at Shizuoka in Suruga Province became a kazoku baron in 1887.[1]
In the Ōnin no ran, 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
Akamatsu grave markers at Harima
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- Akamatsu Norimura (1277–1350).[4]
- Akamatsu Norisuke (1314–1371).[4]
- Akamatsu Mitsusuke (1381–1441).[5]
- Akamatsu Sadaura[5]
See also
- Sesson Yūbai (1290–1348)
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 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.
- ↑ Varley, H. Paul. (1967). The Ōnin war: history of its origins and background, p. 75.
- ↑ Yoshikawa, Eiji. (1995). Musashi, p. 94.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Hall, John Whitney. (1999). The Cambridge History of Japan: Medieval Japan, Vol. 3, pp. 600-603.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "Kaikitsu-no-hen," Japan encyclopedia, p. 456.
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