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History

The Shiba clan descend from the Ashikaga Yasuuji and the Seiwa-Genji. Shiba Ieuji was the son of Shiba Yasuuji who established the clan name at the end of the 13th century. The Shiba were based in Mutsu Province, which occupied the north of

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. The clan also inherited the governorship of

Owari Province was a province of Japan in the area that today forms the western half of Aichi Prefecture, including the modern city of Nagoya. The province was created in 646. Owari bordered on Mikawa, Mino, and Ise Provinces. Owari and Mino provinces w ...

in present-day

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. In the

Kamakura period The is a period of History of Japan, Japanese history that marks the governance by the Kamakura shogunate, officially established in 1192 in Kamakura, Kanagawa, Kamakura by the first ''shōgun'' Minamoto no Yoritomo after the conclusion of the G ...

, the family was treated as a branch or cadet family of Ashikaga clan, which called themselves the Ashikaga family name, and it was not until the

Muromachi period The , also known as the , is a division of Japanese history running from approximately 1336 to 1573. The period marks the governance of the Muromachi or Ashikaga shogunate ( or ), which was officially established in 1338 by the first Muromachi ...

that Shiba was renamed as a family name. Shiba Takatsune (1305–1367) expanded the role of the clan when he sided with

Ashikaga Takauji also known as Minamoto no Takauji was the founder and first ''shōgun'' of the Ashikaga shogunate."Ashikaga Takauji" in ''Encyclopædia Britannica, The New Encyclopædia Britannica''. Chicago: Encyclopædia Britannica Inc., 15th edn., 1992, Vol. ...

(1305–1358) in the skirmishes against the Emperor Go-Daigo in 1335. With the establishment of the Ashikaga shogunate, founding shogun Takauji awarded the office of '' shugo'' governor of Echizen and Wakasa provinces to Takatsune. Shiba Yoshimasa (1350–1410), son of Takatsune, held the office of '' kanrei'' (deputy of the shogun) from 1379 to 1397 during the Ashikaga shogunate. Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005)
"Shiba Yoshimasa"
in ''Japan Encyclopedia'', p. 850. The office of ''kanrei'' was continued by his son Shiba Yoshishige (1371–1418) and grandson Shiba Yoshiatsu (1397–1434). The clan held influence and territory in the provinces of

Echizen Province was a Provinces of Japan, province of Japan in the area that is today the northern portion of Fukui Prefecture in the Hokuriku region of Japan. Echizen bordered on Kaga Province, Kaga, Wakasa Province, Wakasa, Hida Province, Hida, and Ōmi Provin ...

and

to which they were governors during the Sengoku period. The Shiba fell into factional dispute by the mid-15th century and were unable to make a transition to Sengoku-daimyō and lost Echizen to the Asakura in the 1470s. The feud within the Shiba clan and with other clans was one cause of the Ōnin War (1467–1477). The succession process was enacted by Asakura Toshikage, who took their power via usurpation. By the year 1550 the Shiba were represented by Shiba Yoshimune of Owari Province, a figurehead behind which the Yamato no kami branch of the Oda clan had ruled. His domain was Kiyosu Castle. Shiba Yoshikane (d. 1572) was the son of Shiba Yoshimune. When Yoshimune was killed in the year 1554 by Oda Nobutomo the clan effectively came to an end.

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