Hotta clan
In this Japanese name, the family name is "Hotta".
The Hotta clan (堀田氏 Hotta-shi) was a Japanese clan that ruled the Sakura Domain in Shimosa province in the late Edo period. Jindai-ji in the present-day city of Sakura was the clan's bodaiji, or family temple, and has many of the tombstones of prominent members of the Hotta clan.
References
- (Japanese) "Hotta-shi" on Harimaya.com (5 March 2008).