Akamatsu clan

Japanese samurai family

Akamatsu 赤松
Emblem (mon) of the Akamatsu clan
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]

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

Akamatsu Norimura (1277–1350).^[4]
Akamatsu Norisuke (1314–1371).^[4]^[5]
Akamatsu Mitsusuke (1381–1441).^[6]
Akamatsu Sadaura^[6]
Akamatsu Masanori (d.1577)
Akamatsu Yoshisuke
Akamatsu Norifusa (1559–1598)

Notes

^ ^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.
^ Varley, H. Paul. (1967). The Ōnin war: history of its origins and background, p. 75.
^ Yoshikawa, Eiji. (1995). Musashi, p. 94.
^ ^a ^b Hall, John Whitney. (1999). The Cambridge History of Japan: Medieval Japan, Vol. 3, pp. 600-603.
^ Sansom, George (1961). A History of Japan, 1334-1615. Stanford University Press. p. 85,89. ISBN 0804705259.
^ ^a ^b Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "Kaikitsu-no-hen," Japan encyclopedia, p. 456.

References

Hall, John Whitney. (1999). The Cambridge History of Japan: Medieval Japan, Vol. 3. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-22354-6; OCLC 165440083
Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric and Käthe Roth. (2005). Japan Encyclopedia. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-01753-5; OCLC 48943301