Sakakibara clan

Sakakibara clan 榊原
Mon: Sakakibara-Genji-Guruma / Navagraha
Home province	Ise Province
Parent house	Minamoto clan
Titles	Viscount Daimyo
Founder	Sakakibara Toshinaga
Final ruler	Sakakibara Masataka
Current head	Sakakibara Masaharu
Founding year	early Muromachi period
Dissolution	still extant
Ruled until	1871 (Abolition of the han system)

The Sakakibara clan (Japanese: 榊原氏, Hepburn: Sakakibara-shi) was a Japanese samurai clan who rose to prominence during the Edo period under the Tokugawa shogunate.^[1] Before the Meiji Restoration, the clan served as daimyō of Takada Domain in Echigo Province. The Sakakibara were one of the four families who enjoyed the privilege of providing a regent during the minority of a Shōgun.^[2] Under the Meiji government's kazoku peerage system, the head of the clan held the title of viscount (shishaku).