Asano clan

Asano
浅野
Asano clan mon
Home province
Parent house Minamoto clan
Toki clan
Ashikaga clan
Hatakeyama clan
TitlesVarious
FounderAsano Mitsutoki (浅野光時)
Final rulerAsano Nagayuki (浅野長勲)
Current headAsano Nagataka (浅野長孝)
Founding year1221
Ruled until1868

The Asano clan (淺野氏, Asano-shi) was a Japanese samurai clan that descended from the Minamoto clan, and the Emperor Seiwa (850-881), the 56th Emperor of Japan. The Main Lineage (sōke, 宗家) were Lords (daimyō) of the Hiroshima Domain in Aki Province and another famous branch family were Lords of the Akō Domain in Harima Province associated with the story of the Forty-seven rōnin. Their inherited character is "長". The family came to prominence when the sister of Asano Nagamasa married Toyotomi Hideyoshi.[1]

After the Meiji Restoration and the abolition of the han system, the Asano clan became part of the new nobility.[2]

  1. ^ Papinot, Jacques Edmond Joseph. (1906). Dictionnaire d'histoire et de géographie du Japon; Papinot, (2003). "Asano", Nobiliare du Japon, p. 3 [PDF 7 of 80]; retrieved 2013-5-4.
  2. ^ Papinot, Jacques Edmond Joseph. (1906). Dictionnaire d’histoire et de géographie du Japon; Papinot, (2003). "Matsudaira" at Nobiliare du Japon, p. 29; retrieved 2013-7-11.