Akamatsu 赤松 | |
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Home province | Harima |
Parent house | Minamoto clan (Murakami-Genji) |
Titles | Various |
Cadet branches | Shinmen clan |
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]
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]
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