Kikkawa clan

Kikkawa clan
吉川氏
Kikkawa clan mon
Home provinceIzumo
Aki
Suō
Parent house Fujiwara clan (平氏)
Kudō clan (工藤氏)
Irie clan (入江氏)
TitlesVarious
FounderKikkawa Tsuneyoshi
(吉川経義)
Final rulerKikkawa Tsunetake
(吉川経健)
Founding year12th century
Dissolutionstill extant
Ruled until1868 (Meiji Restoration)

The Kikkawa clan (吉川氏, Kikkawa-shi) was a prominent samurai clan of Japan's Sengoku period. The most famous member of the clan is likely Kikkawa Motoharu (1530-1586), one of Toyotomi Hideyoshi's generals, who was adopted into the family. Along with the Kobayakawa clan, the Kikkawa played an important role in Hideyoshi's Kyūshū Campaign (1586-7), and later became daimyō in Izumo Province and Iwakuni after that.