| Asano 浅野 | |
|---|---|
.svg) Asano clan mon | |
| Home province | |
| Parent house |  Minamoto clan Toki clan Ashikaga clan Hatakeyama clan |
| Titles | Various |
| Founder | Asano Mitsutoki (浅野光時) |
| Final ruler | Asano Nagayuki (浅野長勲) |
| Current head | Asano Nagataka (浅野長孝) |
| Founding year | 1221 |
| Ruled until | 1868 |
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]
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.