Niwa clan

Niwa clan
丹羽
Home provinceOwari Province
Parent houseKodama clan
Final rulerNiwa Nagahiro
Founding yearMuromachi period
Ruled until1873 (Abolition of the han system)
Cadet branchesNone

The Niwa clan (丹羽氏, Niwa-shi) was a Japanese samurai clan of northern Honshū that claimed descent from Emperor Kanmu via Prince Yoshimine no Yasuo (785-80) and Kodama Koreyuki (d.1069).[1]

  1. ^ Papinot, Jacques Edmond Joseph. (1906). Dictionnaire d’histoire et de géographie du Japon; Papinot, (2003). "Niwa," Nobiliare du Japon, p. 43; retrieved 2013-5-5.