was a Japanese clan that claimed descent from

Minamoto no Yorimitsu , also known as Minamoto no Raikō, served the regents of the Fujiwara clan along with his brother Yorinobu, taking the violent measures the Fujiwara were themselves unable to take. He is one of the earliest Minamoto of historical note for his mil ...

(948-1021) of the

Seiwa Genji The is a line of the Japanese Minamoto clan that is descended from Emperor Seiwa, which is the most successful and powerful line of the clan. Many of the most famous Minamoto warriors, including Minamoto no Yoshiie, Minamoto no Yoritomo, the f ...

. Minamoto no Yasumasa, the fourth generation descending from Yorimitsu, and younger brother of

Minamoto no Yorimasa (1106 – 20 June 1180) was a prominent Japanese poet whose works appeared in various anthologies. He served eight different emperors in his long career, holding posts such as ''hyōgo no kami'' (head of the arsenal). He was also a warrior, le ...

(1104-1180), was the first to call himself 'Ikeda'. In the

Edo Edo ( ja, , , "bay-entrance" or "estuary"), also romanized as Jedo, Yedo or Yeddo, is the former name of Tokyo. Edo, formerly a ''jōkamachi'' (castle town) centered on Edo Castle located in Musashi Province, became the ''de facto'' capital of ...

period, several of the clan's branches were ''

daimyō were powerful Japanese magnates, feudal lords who, from the 10th century to the early Meiji period in the middle 19th century, ruled most of Japan from their vast, hereditary land holdings. They were subordinate to the shogun and nominall ...

'' families, most notably of the

Tottori Domain 270px, Ikeda Yoshinori 270px, Front gate of the Tottori Domain residence in Edo was a feudal domain under the Tokugawa shogunate of Edo period Japan, in what is now Tottori Prefecture on the island of Shikoku. It controlled all of Inaba P ...

and

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. Takamasa Ikeda, former head of the Okayama Ikeda house was the husband of Atsuko Ikeda, fourth daughter of Hirohito, Emperor Shōwa.

Settsu-Ikeda family

# Ikeda Korezane # Ikeda Koremochi # Ikeda Koresada # Ikeda Kimisada # Ikeda Yasusada # Ikeda Yasumasa # Ikeda Yasumitsu # Ikeda Yasunaga # Ikeda Yasutsugu # Ikeda Yasutada # Ikeda Kagemasa # Ikeda Noriyori # Ikeda Norimasa # Ikeda Kazumasa # Ikeda Iemasa # Ikeda Mitsumasa # Ikeda Sadamasa # Ikeda Nobumasa (d.1548) # Ikeda Nagamasa (d.1563) # Ikeda Katsumasa (1530/1539-1578) # Ikeda Tomomasa (1555-1604) # Ikeda Sankuro (1589-1605) # Ikeda Mitsushige (d.1628) # Ikeda Mitsunaga # Ikeda Sadanaga # Ikeda Sadashige # Ikeda Akisada # Ikeda Sadahiko # Ikeda Sadao # Ikeda Sadakazu # Ikeda Sadamizu # Ikeda Tonemune

Mino-Ikeda family

# Ikeda Tsunetoshi (d.1538) #

Ikeda Tsuneoki , also known as Ikeda Nobuteru (池田信輝), was an Ikeda clan ''daimyō'' and military commander under Oda Nobunaga during the Sengoku period and Azuchi–Momoyama periods of 16th-century Japan. He was a retainer of the famous warlords Oda N ...

Ikeda Terumasa was a Japanese ''daimyō'' of the early Edo period. His court title was '' Musashi no Kami''. Terumasa was also known by the nickname ''saigoku no shōgun'', or, "The ''Shōgun'' of Western Japan". Terumasa fought in many of the battles of the ...

Ikeda Toshitaka Ikeda may refer to: * Ikeda (surname), a Japanese surname * Ikeda (comics), a character in ''Usagi Yojimbo'' * Ikeda clan, a Japanese clan * Ikeda map, chaotic attractor * ''Ikeda'' (annelid) a genus of the family Ikedidae Places * Ikeda, Osaka i ...

(1584-1616) #

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Settsu-Ikeda family

Mino-Ikeda family

Known members of the Ikeda clan

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