Tamura clan

Tamura
田村
Home provinceMutsu Province
Parent houseSakanoue clan
TitlesVarious
FounderSakanoue no Tamuramaro
Final rulerTamura Takaaki
Founding yearHeian period
Dissolutionstill extant
Ruled until1873 (Abolition of the han system)

The Tamura clan (田村氏, Tamura-shi) was a Japanese samurai clan who ruled Ichinoseki Domain in Mutsu Province during the Edo period Tokugawa shogunate. The family was closely related to the Date clan of Sendai Domain through intermarriage.[1]

  1. ^ Papinot, Jacques Edmond Joseph. (1906). Dictionnaire d'histoire et de géographie du Japon; Papinot, (2003). ("Shiba," Nobiliare du Japon, p. 59 [PDF 63 of 80]; retrieved 2013-5-3.