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Japanese samurai family
Akamatsu clan (赤松氏, Akamatsu-shi) is a Japanese
samurai family of direct descent from
Minamoto no Morifusa of the Murakami-Genji (
Minamoto clan).
[1]
History
They were prominent
shugo-
daimyō in Harima during the
Sengoku period.
During the
Ōnin no ran (1467–1477),
Akamatsu Masanori was one of the chief generals of the
Hosokawa clan.
[2]
The head of the clan at Shizuoka in
Suruga Province became a
kazoku baron in 1887.
[1]
The
Shinmen clan were a branch of the Akamatsu.
[3]
Select members of the clan
See also
Notes
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a
b
Papinot, Jacques Edmond Joseph. (1906). Dictionnaire d’histoire et de géographie du Japon; Papinot, (2003).
"Akamatsu" at Nobiliare du Japon, p. 1; retrieved 2013-4-11.
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^
Varley, H. Paul. (1967).
The Ōnin war: history of its origins and background, p. 75.
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^ Yoshikawa, Eiji. (1995).
Musashi, p. 94.
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a
b
Hall, John Whitney. (1999).
The Cambridge History of Japan: Medieval Japan, Vol. 3, pp. 600-603.
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^ Sansom, George (1961). A History of Japan, 1334-1615. Stanford University Press. p. 85,89.
ISBN
0804705259.
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a
b
Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005).
"Kaikitsu-no-hen," Japan encyclopedia, p. 456.
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