The were a
Japan
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ese kin group in
Shinano province
or is an old province of Japan that is now Nagano Prefecture.
Shinano bordered Echigo, Etchū, Hida, Kai, Kōzuke, Mikawa, Mino, Musashi, Suruga, and Tōtōmi Provinces. The ancient capital was located near modern-day Matsumoto, whi ...
during the
Sengoku Period
The was the period in History of Japan, Japanese history in which civil wars and social upheavals took place almost continuously in the 15th and 16th centuries. The Kyōtoku incident (1454), Ōnin War (1467), or (1493) are generally chosen as th ...
.
[''Sekai hyakka daijiten'']
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retrieved 2013-5-10.
History
The Tomono claim descent from the
Ogasawara clan
The was a Japanese samurai clan descended from the Seiwa Genji.Papinot, Jacques. (2003)''Nobiliare du Japon'' – Ogasawara, pp. 44–45 Papinot, Jacques Edmond Joseph. (1906). ''Dictionnaire d’histoire et de géographie du Japon.'' (in Fren ...
, particularly
Ogasawara Nagakiyo.
The clan were weakened after involvement in the
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* Adachi (surname)
* Adachi clan, a family of samurai
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* Adachi, Tokyo, a special ward of Tokyo, Japan
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affair in 1285.
In the Sengoku period they became vassals of Takeda Shingen, but later became retainers of the
Tokugawa after the