Asakura clan









Asakura clan
朝倉氏

Japanese Crest mitumori mokkou.svg
The Asakura clan mon

Home provinceEchizen
Parent houseKusakabe clan (purported)
TitlesVarious

The Asakura clan (朝倉氏, Asakura-shi) is a Japanese kin group.[1]




Contents





  • 1 History


  • 2 Select list


  • 3 References


  • 4 Further reading




History


The clan claims descent from Prince Kusakabe (662–689), who was the son of Emperor Tenmu (631–686).[1]


The family was a line of daimyō (feudal lords) which, along with the Azai clan, opposed Oda Nobunaga in the late 16th century.


The Asakura were defeated by Nobunaga at the Battle of Anegawa in 1570; the family's home castle of Ichijōdani was taken in 1573.[citation needed]


Asakura Nobumasa (1583–1637), nephew of Asakura Yoshikage, was allied with Toyotomi Hideyoshi and with Tokugawa Ieyasu. In 1625, he was granted Kakegawa Domain (25,000 koku) in Tōtōmi Province. In 1632, he was implicated in a plot, causing him to be dispossessed and banished to Koriyama, where he died.[1]



Select list




  • Asakura Toshikage (1428–1481)


  • Asakura Sadakage (1473–1512)


  • Asakura Norikage (1474–1552)


  • Asakura Takakage (1493–1546)


  • Asakura Yoshikage (1533–1573)[1]


  • Asakura Kagetake (1536–1575)


  • Asakura Kagetsura (unknown-1570)


References




  1. ^ abcd Papinot, Jacques Edmond Joseph. (1906). Dictionnaire d'histoire et de géographie du Japon; Papinot, (2003). "Asakura", Nobiliare du Japon, p. 3 [PDF 7 of 80]; retrieved 2013-5-4.




Further reading



  • Turnbull, Stephen (1998). 'The Samurai Sourcebook'. London: Cassell & Co.

  • Turnbull, Stephen (2002). 'War in Japan: 1467-1615'. Oxford: Osprey Publishing.






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