The was a Japanese kin group in
Dewa Province
was a province of Japan comprising modern-day Yamagata Prefecture and Akita Prefecture, except for the city of Kazuno and the town of Kosaka. Dewa bordered on Mutsu and Echigō Provinces. Its abbreviated form name was .
History
Early per ...
during the
Sengoku Period
The was a period in Japanese history of near-constant civil war and social upheaval from 1467 to 1615.
The Sengoku period was initiated by the Ōnin War in 1467 which collapsed the feudal system of Japan under the Ashikaga shogunate. Variou ...
and
Edo period
The or is the period between 1603 and 1867 in the history of Japan, when Japan was under the rule of the Tokugawa shogunate and the country's 300 regional ''daimyo''. Emerging from the chaos of the Sengoku period, the Edo period was character ...
.
[King, James. (2010)]
''Beyond the Great Wave: the Japanese Landscape Print, 1727-1960,'' p. 90
History
The clan claimed descent from
Shiba Kaneyori Shiba may refer to:
* Shiba Inu, a breed of dog
* Shiba clan, Japanese clan originating in the Sengoku period
* Shiba Inu (cryptocurrency), a decentralized cryptocurrency
Geography
* Shiba, Tokyo, a former ward of Tokyo, Japan
*Shiba Park in Tokyo ...
.
The castle town of
Tendō was the clan center.
[Baedeker. (2012)]
''Japan,'' p. 561
Hotta, Anne and Yoko Ishiguro. (1986)
''A guide to Japanese hot springs,'' p. 192
Leaders of the clan were patrons of
Hiroshige
Utagawa Hiroshige (, also ; ja, 歌川 広重 ), born Andō Tokutarō (; 1797 – 12 October 1858), was a Japanese ''ukiyo-e'' artist, considered the last great master of that tradition.
Hiroshige is best known for his horizontal-format l ...
.
See also
*
Naomasa Nakahachi
Naomasa (written: 直政, 直正, 直方, 尚正 or 尚政) is a masculine Japanese given name. Notable people with the name include:
*, Japanese samurai
*, Japanese samurai
*, Japanese ''daimyō''
*, Japanese ''daimyō''
*, Japanese ''daimyō''
* ...
References
External links
天童氏 at harimaya.com
Japanese clans
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