page_title: Japanese clans
section_title: Grand Family names
hierarchical_section_title: Japanese clans / Grand Family names
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Image créee sous paint qui représente le mon (blason japonais) du clan Hosokawa.
context_page_description: There are ancient-era clan names called Uji-na or Honsei.
context_section_description: 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 Grand aristocratic families, Shugo, Shugodai, Jitō, Daimyo, warlords.
  Abe clan of Mikawa (阿部氏) - descended from Emperor Kōgen and the ancient Abe clan (阿部氏); no direct relation to the Abe clan of Ōshū (安倍氏).
  Adachi clan (安達氏) - descended from Fujiwara clan.
  Akamatsu clan (赤松氏) - descended from Murakami Genji.
  Akechi clan (明智氏) - cadet branch of Toki clan who descended from Seiwa Genji; famous for Akechi Mitsuhide.
  Akita clan (秋田氏) - descended from Abe clan of Ōshū.
  Akiyama clan (秋山氏) - cadet branch of Takeda clan who descended from Seiwa Genji.
  Akizuki clan (秋月氏) - descended from Prince Achi no Omi of the Chinese Han dynasty.
  Amago clan (尼子氏) - cadet branch of Sasaki clan who descended from Uda Genji.
  Amakusa clan (天草氏) - descended from Ōkura clan.
  Anayama clan (穴山氏) - cadet branch of Takeda clan who descended from Seiwa Genji.
  Andō clan - descended from Abe clan of Ōshū, by Abe no Hirafu.
  Asakura clan (朝倉氏) - descended from Prince Kusakabe son of Emperor Tenmu.
  Asano clan (浅野氏) - cadet branch of Toki clan who descended from Seiwa Genji.
  Ashikaga clan (足利氏) - descended from Seiwa Genji; famous for Ashikaga shogunate; no direct relation to the Fujiwara-descent Ashikaga clan.
  Ashikaga clan (Fujiwara) (足利氏) - descended from Fujiwara Hokke; no direct relation to the Genji-descent Ashikaga clan.
  Ashina clan (蘆名氏) - cadet branch of Miura clan who descended from Kanmu Heishi.
  Aso clan (阿蘇氏) - descended from Emperor Jimmu by the Ō clan.
  Asō clan (麻生氏) - cadet branch of Utsunomiya clan who descended from Fujiwara Hokke; famous for Tarō Asō.
  Atagi clan (安宅氏) - cadet branch of Ogasawara clan who descended from Seiwa Genji (disputed).
  Azai clan (浅井氏) - descended from Fujiwara clan; famous for Azai Nagamasa.
  Bitō clan (尾藤氏) - descended from Fujiwara Hokke.
  Chiba clan (千葉氏) - descended from Kanmu Heishi.
  Date clan (伊達氏) - also known as Idate clan or Idachi clan, descended from Fujiwara Hokke; famous for Date Masamune.
  Doi clan (土井氏) - cadet branch of Toki clan who descended from Seiwa Genji (disputed); no direct relation to the Heishi-descent Doi clan.
  Doi clan (土肥氏) - descended from Kanmu Heishi; no direct relation to the Genji-descent Doi clan.
  Fuji clan (富士氏) - descended from Wani clan (和珥氏).
  Gotō clan - cadet branch of Takeda clan who descended from Seiwa Genji.
  Hachisuka clan (蜂須賀氏) - cadet branch of Ashikaga clan by the Shiba clan who descended from Seiwa Genji, famous for Hachisuka Masakatsu.
  Haga clan (芳賀氏) - descended from Kiyowara clan.
  Hashiba clan (羽柴氏) - also known as their honsei: Toyotomi clan (豊臣氏); descended from Toyotomi Hideyoshi.
  Hatakeyama clan (畠山氏) - descended from Kanmu Heishi before 1205. After 1205 the Hatakeyama are a cadet branch of Ashikaga clan who descended from Seiwa Genji.
  Hatano clan (波多野氏) - descended from Fujiwara Hokke.
  Hayashi clan (林氏) - cadet branch of Kōno clan who descended from Prince Iyo, son of Emperor Kanmu.
  Hiki clan (比企氏) - descended from Fujiwara Hokke.
  Hirano clan - descended from Prince Toneri son of Emperor Tenmu, by the Kiyowara clan.
  Hisamatsu clan (久松氏) - cadet branch of Takatsuji family who descended from Sugawara clan.
  Hitotsuyanagi clan - cadet branch of Kōno clan who descended from Prince Iyo, son of Emperor Kanmu.
  Hōjō clan (北条氏) - descended from Kanmu Heishi (disputed); no direct relation to the Later Hōjō clan (北条氏) or Kitajō clan (北条氏); regents of the Kamakura shogunate.
  Later Hōjō clan (後北条氏) - also known as Hōjō clan or Go-Hōjō clan; descended from Kanmu Heishi; no direct relation to the regent Hōjō clan (北条氏) or Kitajō clan (北条氏).
  Honma clan (本間氏) - als
caption: Mon of the Hosokawa clan
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