Matsuda clan

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The Matsuda clan (松田氏, Matsuda-shi) is a Japanese family tracing its origins to Bizen Province,^[1] and heirs of Fujiwara no Hidesato.

Notable members of the clan include: Matsuda Mototaka.

The Matsuda clan was a clan of the Hatano family, Fujiwara no Hidesato house, originated in Matsuda-go in Ashigarakami County Sagami Province. They had a family line in the western area of Bizen Province in the late Muromachi period; another in Kyoto as a shogun's retainer in the Muromachi period; the head family of the Sagami Matsuda family serving for the Kaga Maeda family after serving for the Odawara Gohojo family; and the Yuki family and a family line serving as a hatamoto (direct retainers of the Edo bakufu) of the Tokugawa Shogun family as its branch families.

It is thought that they were the Soryo (government) family which orchestrated the Hatano family which resided in Sagami Province in the Kamakura period. From the period of Northern and Southern Courts to the Muromachi period, the Soryo system collapsed, and influential non-heir families and clans got independent from the head family, so it is uncertain which family was the head family of the Matsuda clan.