Sengoku clan

Sengoku clan (仙石 氏, Sengoku shi) was a Japanese samurai family which descended from the Seiwa-Genji.[1]

History

The family origins were in Mino Province.[1] In the early Edo period, the Sengoku were at Komoro Domain.[2] In 1706, the family was moved to Izushi Domain with 30,000 koku revenues.[1] The clan remained in Tajima Province until the end of the Edo period.[3] The head of the clan became a kazoku vicount in the Meiji period.[1]

Select list of clan members

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Papinot, Jacques Edmond Joseph. (1906). Dictionnaire d’histoire et de géographie du Japon; Papinot, (2003). "Ina" at Nobiliare du Japon, p. 54; retrieved 2013-4-11.
  2. "Shinano Province" at JapaneseCastleExplorer.com; retrieved 2013-4-11.
  3. "Tajima Province" at JapaneseCastleExplorer.com; retrieved 2013-4-11.


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