page_title: Matsunaga clan
section_title: Yamato Matsunaga clan
hierarchical_section_title: Matsunaga clan / Yamato Matsunaga clan
caption_attribution_description: Matsunaga Hisahide(松永久秀)
context_page_description: The Matsunaga clan is a Japanese samurai clan who are descended from the Fujiwara clan.
  The lineage of Matsunaga Danjo Hisahide strengthen the Matsunaga clan's claim to Fujiwara lineage through Hisahide's nephew, Tadatoshi Naito. Tadatoshi Naito's mother was Naito Sadafusa who was from the Naito clan. The Naito clan are descended from Fujiwara no Hidesato. Tadatoshi Naito would serve as lord of Yagi castle.
  Hisahide's granddaughter, Matsunaga Teitoku also strengthened the Matsunaga clan's link to the Fujiwara clan. Her mother was the older sister of Fujiwara Seika. Teitoku's cousin was Tadatoshi Naito.
  Other sources suggest that the Matsunaga clan may have descended from the Minamoto clan and may be the descendants of Takenouchi no Sukune.
context_section_description: The Matsunaga clan that follows the lineage of Matsunaga Danjo Hisahide (松永弾正久秀) is the most famous in Japan. Hisahida was the daimyō of the Yamato Province during the Sengoku period. He was born in the year of 1508 and shares the same roots with the Fujiwara clan as the Matsunaga clan in the Mikawa Province. They both used the same tsuta-mon (ivy) as their family crest. In Japan, when people think of the Matsunaga clan, it is usually Hisahide they are referring to.
  Hisahide served as the main retainer for Miyoshi Nagayoshi of the Miyoshi clan in the Yamato Province. He also served as retainer briefly for the Oda clan.
  Hisahide’s actual title was Danjo Shohitsu (弾正少弼) which was positioned under the vice minister of Danjo with the Senior Fourth Rank, Lower Grade. He would become the daimyō of the Yamato Province.
  Hisahide later committed seppuku after Oda Nobunaga besieged him at Shigisan Castle in 1577. Both of his sons, Kojiro and Hisamichi (松永久通), also committed seppuku during the siege.
caption: Matsunaga Danjo Hisahide, one of the few portraits where he is not shown as an old shrewd man.
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