Daidōji family

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

The Daidōji clan were a Japanese samurai kin group in the Kamakura period.[1]

History

The Daidōji were descendants of the Taira.[1]

Daidōji Masashige was the governor of Suruga Province with an annual income of 180,000 koku. In 1590, his forces were defeated by Maeda Toshiie. In 1591, Masahige killed himself (harakiri).[1]

The Daidōji were important retainers under the Hōjō clan during Japan's Sengoku period. However, when the Hōjō home castle of Odawara fell in 1590, the Daidōji were nearly all killed..

Notable clan leaders

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Papinot, Jacques Edmond Joseph. (1906). Dictionnaire d’histoire et de géographie du Japon; Papinot, (2003). "Daidōji," Nobiliare du Japon, p. 4; retrieved 2013-5-3.