Arakawa clan

In this Japanese name, the family name is "Arakawa".

The Arakawa clan (荒川氏 Arakawa-shi) was a Japanese samurai family which descended from Minamoto no Tsunemoto (894-961)[1] of the Seiwa-Genji.[2]

History

Arakawa was the original surname of the family which began calling itself "Ina clan" when it moved to the Ina region in Shinano Province in modern-day Nagano Prefecture. This move was ordered by the Ashikaga shogunate in the 15th century.[1]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Takahashi, Tomoko T. (2011). Samurai and Cotton: A Story of Two Life Journeys in Japan and America, p. 7.
  2. ↑ Papinot, Jacques Edmond Joseph. (1906). Dictionnaire d’histoire et de géographie du Japon; Papinot, (2003). "Ina" at Nobiliare du Japon, p. 15; retrieved 2013-4-11.