Japanese clans

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Template:Short description This is a list of Japanese clans. The old clans (gōzoku) mentioned in the Nihon Shoki and Kojiki lost their political power before the Heian period, during which new aristocracies and families, kuge, emerged in their place. After the Heian period, the samurai warrior clans gradually increased in importance and power until they came to dominate the country after the founding of the first shogunate.

Japan traditionally practiced cognatic primogeniture, or male-line inheritance in regard to passing down titles and estates. By allowing adult adoption, or for men to take their wife's name and be adopted into her family served as a means to pass down an estate to a family without any sons, Japan has managed to retain continuous family leadership for many of the below clans, the imperial family, and even ordinary family businesses.[1][2]

The ability for Japanese families to track their lineage over successive generations plays a far more important role than simply having the same name as another family, as many commoners did not use a family name prior to the Meiji Restoration, and many simply Script error: No such module "Nihongo". the name of the lord of their village, or the name of their domain, and may not necessarily have been a retainer to the clan. Other clan names are based on common geographic features or other arbitrary words that didn't necessarily indicate clan membership.[3]

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Map showing the territories of major daimyō families around 1570

Many families also adopted sons from other families or married their daughters into other families to cement ties with a larger kin group outside of those with the same name as the main family line, called Script error: No such module "Nihongo"., a clan or family relationship built around both blood and maternal relations. Tokugawa Ieyasu himself had adopted two dozen children of allies in addition to his 16 acknowledged children.[4]

The Meiji Restoration sought to dismantle the clan structure, giving clan leaders titles of nobility to inspire loyalty to the emperor rather than individual clans. However those familial relationships built over multiple generations still maintained their ties, first as monbatsu, then with industrialization, evolved into the pre-war zaibatsu, which were formed by these same inter-clan relationships. With the abolishment of the kazoku in 1947, they reverted to their unofficial keibatsu, and elements of which can be seen today in political families such as the Satō–Kishi–Abe family, with family ties to Marquess Inoue Kaoru, Viscount Ōshima Yoshimasa, and pre-war Foreign Minister Yōsuke Matsuoka, all descendants of lower ranking Chōshū samurai families who benefited from the clan's outsized influence in the Meiji era government, and effectively created their own new clan, despite the lack of official title.[1][5][6]

Ancient clan names

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Imperial House

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Mon of the Imperial House of Japan

Four noble clans

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Mon of the Minamoto clan
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Mon of the Taira clan
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Mon of the Fujiwara clan
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Mon of the Tachibana clan

Noble clans

Aristocratic family names

From the late ancient era onward, the family name (Myōji/苗字 or 名字) had been commonly used by samurai to denote their family line instead of the name of the ancient clan that the family line belongs to (uji-na/氏名 or honsei/本姓), which was used only in the official records in the Imperial court. Kuge families also had used their family name (Kamei/家名) for the same purpose. Each of samurai families is called "[family name] clan (氏)" as follows and they must not be confused with ancient clan names. The list below is a list of various aristocratic families whose families served as Shugo, Shugodai, Jitō, and Daimyo

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Mon of the Akita clan
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Mon of the Asano clan
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Mon of the Ashikaga clan
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Mon of the Hōjō clan
File:Japanese crest Honda Tachi Aoi.svg
Mon of the Honda clan
File:Japanese Crest Hosokawa Kuyou.svg
Mon of the Hosokawa clan
File:Japanese Crest Bizenn Chou.svg
Mon of the (Mino) Ikeda clan
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Mon of the Inaba clan
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Mon of the Inoue clan
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Mon of the Itō clan
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Mon of the Kikuchi clan
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Mon of the Maeda clan
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Banner with the Mon of the Matsumae clan
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Mon of the Mori clan (森氏)
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Mon of the Miyoshi clan
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Mon of the Mōri clan
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Mon of the Shimazu clan
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Mon of the Suwa clan
File:Japanese Crest Takeda Hisi.svg
Mon of the Takeda clan
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Mon of the Toki clan
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Mon of the Tokugawa clan
File:Japanese Crest Uesugi Sasa.svg
Mon of the Uesugi clan
File:Japanese Crest Watanabe Hosi.svg
Mon 'Mitsuboshi ni ichimonji' of the Watanabe clan
File:Japanese Crest Yanagisawa Hanabisi.svg
Mon of the Yanagizawa clan
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Mon of the Yūki clan

Zaibatsu

Zaibatsu were the industrial and financial vertically integrated business conglomerates in the Empire of Japan, whose influence and size allowed control over significant parts of the Japanese economy from the Meiji period until the end of World War II.

Sacerdotal clans

Ryukyu

Ryukyuan people are not Yamato people, but the Ryukyu Islands have been part of Japan since 1879.

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Mon of the Ryukyu Kingdom

Ryukyuan dynasties:

Immigrant clans

Script error: No such module "Labelled list hatnote". Toraijin is used to describe migrants in many contexts, from the original migration of a Yamato peoples to more recent migrants. According to the book Shinsen Shōjiroku compiled in 815, a total 326 out of 1,182 families in the Kinai area on Honshū were regarded as people with foreign genealogy. The book specifically encompasses immigrants from ancient Korea and China and that these families are considered notable, although not inherently noble.[13][14]

Despite the book being highly regarded by many, there are certain claims that are under scrutiny by modern historians, and some corrections and revisions have been made over the recent years with certain clans of specific origins being classified differently.

Paekche (Korea)

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Crown of Baekje found in the Tomb of King Muryeong
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Mon of Akizuki clan
    • Haruda clan (原田氏) – cadet branch of Yamatonoaya clan.
    • Inoue clan (井上氏) – cadet branch of Yamatonoaya clan. Not to be confused with the Seiwa Genji Inoue clan.
    • Kawachinoaya clan (西漢氏) – cadet branch of Yamatonoaya clan.
    • Ōkura clan (大蔵氏) – cadet branch of Yamatonoaya clan.
    • Sakanoue clan (坂上氏) – cadet branch of Yamatonoaya clan.
    • Nishiki clan (錦氏) – cadet branch of Yamatonoaya clan.
    • Nishikibe clan (錦部氏) – cadet branch of Yamatonoaya clan.
    • Takamuko clan (高向氏) – cadet branch of Yamatonoaya clan; famous for Takamuko no Kuromaro. Not to be confused with a different Takamuko clan of the same name that descends from Takenouchi no Sukune.
    • Tamura clan (田村氏) – cadet branch of Yamatonoaya clan.
  • Yamatonofumi clan (東文氏) – descended from the scholar Wani. Related to the Kawachinofumi clan.

Goguryeo (Korea)

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Crown of Goguryeo

Silla (Korea)

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Crown of Silla
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Mon of Chōsokabe clan
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Mon of Kawakatsu clan

Kaya (Korea)

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Crown of Kaya

China

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Mianguan of China

See also

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Notes

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  1. ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Moore, Ray A. (May 1970). "Adoption and Samurai Mobility in Tokugawa Japan". The Journal of Asian Studies. 29 (3): 617–632. doi:10.2307/2943247. JSTOR 2943247.
  2. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Saito, Osamu (2000). "Marriage, family labour and the stem family household: traditional Japan in a comparative perspective" (PDF). Continuity and Change. 15 (1): 17–45. doi:10.1017/s026841609900346x. hdl:10086/13400. S2CID 55491127.
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  4. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Sato, Tomoyasu (1987). 門閥―旧華族階層の復権. Rippū Shobō. ISBN 978-4651700328.
  5. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Yamada, Eizō; 山田栄三 (1988). Seiden Satō Eisaku. Shinchōsha. p. 23. ISBN 4-10-370701-1. OCLC 20260847.
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  10. ^ Nelson, John K. (2000). Enduring Identities: The Guise of Shinto in Contemporary Japan, pp. 67–69.
  11. ^ Cranston, Edwin A. (1998). A Waka Anthology, p. 513.
  12. ^ Grapard, Allan G. (1992). The protocol of the gods, p. 42.
  13. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Saeki, Arikiyo (1981). Shinsen Shōjiroku no Kenkyū (Honbun hen) (in Japanese). Yoshikawa Kōbunkan. ISBN 4-642-02109-4.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link)
  14. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."渡来人と赤穂". The KANSAI Guide - The Origin of Japan, KANSAI (in 日本語). Retrieved 2022-09-14.

References

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