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Tachibana Ginchiyo (立花 誾千代, September 23, 1569 – November 30, 1602) was head of the Japanese Tachibana clan and onna-musha during the Sengoku period. She was a daughter of Tachibana Dōsetsu, a powerful retainer of the Ōtomo clan (which were rivals of the Shimazu clan at the time). Because Dosetsu had no sons, he requested that ...
However, as the Minamoto clan and the Fujiwara clan gained power over the course of the 9th and 10th centuries, the Tachibana were eclipsed and eventually became scattered across the country. Though serving in high government posts outside the capital, they were thus denied the degree of power and influence within the court at Kyoto ( Heian ...
Tachibana clan may refer to: Tachibana clan (kuge) (橘氏), a clan of kuge (court nobles) prominent in the Nara and Heian periods Tachibana clan (samurai) (立花氏), a clan of daimyō (feudal lords) prominent in the Muromachi, Sengoku and Edo periods
The clan, which bore no direct relation to the Tachibana clan of the Heian period, originated with Ōtomo Sadatoshi (d. 1336), who took on the name and assigned it to the family of Ōtomo vassals who held Tachibana castle. For a time, the Tachibana served as loyal retainers under the Ōtomo clan, regularly battling the Shimazu, rivals to the ...
Sue clan – cadet branch of Ōuchi clan who descended from Tatara clan. famous for Sue Harukata. Sugi clan – cadet branch of Sasaki clan who descended from Uda Genji; famous for Yoshida Shōin. Suwa clan – more or less unknown ancestors, many believed Suwa descended from Seiwa Genji through Minamoto no Tsunetomo.
The battles were part of the 16th-century Sengoku period, also known as the "Warring States Period", and were little different from other conflicts.After the Ōnin War (1467–77), the Muromachi shōgun ' s system and taxation had increasingly less control outside the province of the capital in Kyoto, and powerful lords began to assert themselves.
Although the ruling Tayichiud clan was destroyed by Genghis, their descendants, who had surrendered, achieved fame in parts of the Mongol Empire. Jebe (born Jurgaadai), who had struck the final blow to the Jurchens during the Mongol conquest of the Jin dynasty in 1219 and defeated the Kypchaks and their European allies at the battle of Kalka in 1223, was from Besud clan of Tayichiud.
The Chōshū Kiheitai fought against the shogunate in the Second Chōshū expedition and the Boshin War.. The initial reduction of 1.2 million to 369,000 koku resulted in a large shortfall in terms of military upkeep and infrastructure maintenance, despite which the domain remained the seventh largest in Japan outside the shogunate-controlled domains.