The is a Japanese samurai kin group.
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History
The clan claims descent from Prince Kusakabe (662–689), who was the son of Emperor Tenmu (631–686).
The family was a line of ''daimyō'' (feudal lords) who, along with the Azai clan, opposed Oda Nobunaga in the late 16th century. Nobunaga defeated the Asakura at the
Battle of Anegawa in 1570; the family's home castle of
Ichijōdani was taken in 1573.
(1583–1637), nephew of
Asakura Yoshikage, was allied with
Toyotomi Hideyoshi
, otherwise known as and , was a Japanese samurai and ''daimyō'' (feudal lord) of the late Sengoku period, Sengoku and Azuchi-Momoyama periods and regarded as the second "Great Unifier" of Japan.Richard Holmes, The World Atlas of Warfare: ...
and with
Tokugawa Ieyasu
Tokugawa Ieyasu (born Matsudaira Takechiyo; 31 January 1543 – 1 June 1616) was the founder and first ''shōgun'' of the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan, which ruled from 1603 until the Meiji Restoration in 1868. He was the third of the three "Gr ...
. In 1625, he was granted the
Kakegawa Domain
was a Han (Japan), feudal domain under the Tokugawa shogunate of Edo period Japan. The domain was centered at Kakegawa Castle in Tōtōmi Province, in what is now the city of Kakegawa, Shizuoka. (25,000 ''
koku
The is a Chinese-based Japanese unit of volume. One koku is equivalent to 10 or approximately , or about of rice. It converts, in turn, to 100 shō and 1,000 gō. One ''gō'' is the traditional volume of a single serving of rice (before co ...
'') in
Tōtōmi Province
was a Provinces of Japan, province of Japan in the area of Japan that is today western Shizuoka Prefecture.Louis-Frédéric, Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "''Tōtōmi''" in . Tōtōmi bordered on Mikawa Province, Mikawa, Suruga Province, S ...
. In 1632, he was implicated in a plot, causing him to be dispossessed and banished to
Koriyama, where he died.
Clan Heads
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Asakura Toshikage (1428–1481)
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Asakura Ujikage (1449–1486)
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Asakura Sadakage (1473–1512)
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Real people
*Asakura clan, famous Japanese clan during Sengoku period
**, ''daimyō''
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(1493–1546)
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Asakura Yoshikage (1533–1573)
Retainer
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Asakura Norikage (1477–1555)
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Asakura Kageaki (1529–1574)
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Asakura Kagetake (1536–1575)
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Asakura Kagetsura
was a senior retainer of the Asakura clan throughout the mid-Sengoku Period of Feudal Japan
The first human inhabitants of the Japanese archipelago have been traced to the Paleolithic, around 38–39,000 years ago. The Jōmon period, named a ...
(d.1570)
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Asakura Nobumasa (1583–1637)
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Maeba Yoshitsugu (1524-1574)
References
Further reading
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Turnbull, Stephen (1998). 'The Samurai Sourcebook'. London: Cassell & Co.
*Turnbull, Stephen (2002). 'War in Japan: 1467-1615'. Oxford: Osprey Publishing.
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Japanese clans
People from Fukui Prefecture
Imperial House of Japan
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