Soga no Umako, who succeeded his father as Ōomi of the Soga clan, eventually killed Mononobe no Moriya at the Battle of Shigisan, the head of the Mononobe clan, which led to its decline.

He contested leadership of the Shimazu clan against the fifth head of the Satsuma branch of the clan Shimazu Sanehisa.

The head of this clan line was ennobled as a viscount in the Meiji period.

Minamoto no Yorimasa (源頼政), head of the clan at the beginning of the war.

Minamoto no Yoritomo (源頼朝), head of the clan upon Yorimasa's death.

Taira no Kiyomori (平清盛), head of the clan at the beginning of the war.

Minamoto no Yoshitsune (源義経), younger brother of Yoritomo, chief general of the clan.

His family is associated with the Dog of the Chinese zodiac.

Hōjō Tokimasa (時政 北条), head of the Hōjō clan (北条), father in law of Yoritomo.

It has been the seat of the Duke of Argyll, chief of Clan Campbell since the 17th century.

In the present day, the current clan head Morihiro Hosokawa, has served as Prime Minister of Japan.

Shortly thereafter in 1203, Sanetomo became head of the Minamoto clan and was appointed Seii Taishogun .

Design The designs on sashimono were usually very simple geometric shapes, sometimes accompanied by Japanese characters providing the name of the leader or clan, the clan's mon , or a clan's slogan.

Jodhpur was founded in 1459 by Rao Jodha, a Rajput chief of the Rathore clan.

Taira no Shigehira and Tomomori, both sons of Kiyomori, head of the clan, commanded the siege.

Wright portrayed him in the dress costume of an Irish chieftain, with suit of rare Japanese armour at his feet.

Karai, a clan leader from Japan, came here to stop the clan war.

During his time in Britain, Simon McTavish had befriended the chief of Clan MacTavish, and on the chief's death, Simon brought one of the sons into the North West Company.

Findláech of Moray (or Findláech mac Ruaidrí, anglicised as Findlay of Moray ) was the King or Mormaer of Moray, ruling from some point before 1014 until his death in 1020.

Oh, come, come, gentlemen. It isn't everyday that two British officers prostrate themselves at the feet of a poor border chieftain.

However, a peace agreement was reached wherein Tayasu Kamenosuke, the young head of a branch of the Tokugawa family, was adopted and made Tokugawa family head On April 11, Edo Castle was handed over to the imperial army, and the city spared from all out war.

Indeed, in Japan, you have the clan, the shogun, in Black Africa, you have the village and the village chief.

Because of his missing eye, his own mother condemned him as unfit to take over as clan leader and began favoring his younger brother as heir.

During the Heiji Disturbance (1160), the head of the Seiwa Genji clan, Minamoto no Yoshitomo, died in battle.

Clan Chisholm () is a Scottish clan.

The Toubou elect a chief, the Derdé , from the Tomagra clan, although never from the same family consecutively.

He married Tokimasa's daughter, the widow of Hatakeyama Shigeyasu (the last Hatakeyama of the first branch), and inherited the domains of the Hatakeyama (1205).

The Akita clan was originally known as the .

The Mogami clan is derived from the Shiba clan that was a branch of the Ashikaga clan.

Neither the Yamana clan nor the Hosokawa clan had achieved its aims, other than to whittle down the numbers of the opposing clan.

The was a Japanese samurai kin group or clan History The clan was descended from the Seiwa Genji, a branch of the Minamoto clan, and ultimately from Emperor Seiwa himself, through the Ashikaga clan.

As a result of the near total destruction of their rival clan, the Minamoto, in the Heiji Rebellion of 1160, Taira no Kiyomori, head of the clan, initiated the Genpei War at the height of his power.

a Japanese surname Kodama (train), a Japanese bullet train service name Kodama (wrestler), American professional wrestler Kodama clan, a clan originating during the Kamakura period of Japan Kodama, Saitama, a town located in Kodama District, Saitama, Japan Kodama Station, a train station located in Honjō, Saitama, Japan.

He was the second oldest son of his father Yesügei, a Khamag Mongol's major chief of the Kiyad and an ally of Toghrul Khan of the Khereid tribe, and the oldest son of his mother Hoelun.

It was a branch of the Minamoto clan by the Ashikaga clan.

) was a branch family of the Taira clan descended from Chiba no Suke, son of Taira no Tadatsune.

According to some theories, the Miyoshi clan was descended from the Ogasawara clan.

The was a Japanese clan during the Sengoku period who served the Imagawa clan of Suruga Province as retainer.

When their son Takeda Katsuyori proved to be a disastrous leader and led the clan to their devastating defeat at the battle of Nagashino, Turnbull writes, wise old heads nodded, remembering the unhappy circumstances of his birth and his magical mother .

Succession controversy When Nobuhide died in 1551 in Owari, he had designated young Nobunaga to succeed him as the head of the Oda clan and its small domain.

In 1462 the castle survived a siege by the forces of John of Islay, Earl of Ross and the last Lord of the Isles.

Other information member of the Reer Abdille subclan of the Ogaden clan.

Mononobe no Moriya, the head of the clan, supported one prince to succeed Yōmei, while Soga no Umako chose another.

The Asakura clan was particularly disdainful of the Oda clan's increasing power because, historically, the Oda clan had been subordinate to the Asakura clan.

The Foot Clan are the most feared clan of warriors and assassins in Japan.