| Inaba 稲葉 | |
|---|---|
 Inaba clan Family crest (kamon) | |
| Home province | Mino |
| Parent house | Kōno clan |
| Titles | daimyō, viscount |
| Founder | Emperor Kanmu via Kōno Michitaka |
| Final ruler | Inaba Masakuni |
| Founding year | 14th century |
| Dissolution | still extant |
| Ruled until | 1873 (Abolition of the han system) |
| Cadet branches | two cadet branches to the Meiji Restoration |
The Inaba clan (Japanese: 稲葉氏, Hepburn: Inaba-shi) were a samurai kin group which rose to prominence in the Sengoku period and the Edo periods.[1] Under the Tokugawa shogunate, the Inaba, as hereditary vassals of the Tokugawa clan, were classified as one of the fudai daimyō clans.[2]
- ^ Meyer, Eva-Maria. "Gouverneure von Kyôto in der Edo-Zeit". Archived 2008-04-11 at the Wayback Machine Universität Tübingen (in German)
- ^ Appert, Georges. (1888). Ancien Japon, p. 75