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The are descendants of Emperor Seiwa
Emperor Seiwa

Emperor Seiwa was the 56th Emperor of Japan of Japan, according to the traditional order of succession. His reign spanned the years from 858 through 876....
 (850-880) and are a branch of the Ashikaga clan
Ashikaga clan

The was a prominent Japanese samurai Japanese clans which established the Muromachi shogunate and ruled Japan from roughly 1336 to 1573.The Ashikaga were descended from a branch of the Minamoto clan, deriving originally from the town of Ashikaga, Tochigi in Shimotsuke province ....
 and the Shiba clan
Shiba clan

The was a Japanese clan claiming descent from the Seiwa Genji. A branch of the Shiba ruled Owari Province during the Muromachi Period....
 (Seiwa Genji).

Ashikaga Ieuji (13th century), son of Ashikaga Yasuuji was the first who adopted the name of Shiba. The Shiba were shugo
Shugo

was a title, commonly translated as "Governor," given to certain officials in feudal Japan. They were each appointed by the shogun to oversee one or more of the provinces of Japan....
 (governors) of Echizen, Owari and other provinces, and were during the Ashikaga shogunate one of three families (Shiba, Hosokawa and Hatakeyama) from which the Kyoto-kanryo (Prime minister of the shogun) could be chosen.

Shiba Masaaki, the descendant of Shiba Takatsune
Shiba Takatsune

was the Constable of Echizen Province during the 14th century Nanboku-cho Wars in Japan. He acted to block the northward progress of Nitta Yoshisada, who supported the Emperor of Japan Southern Court against the Shogun's Northern Court ....
 (+ 1367), established himself in Hachisuka, near Kiso river at the border of Owari and Mino provinces, from whence he took the name Hachisuka.

In the 16th century, the Hachisuka clan came to prominence thanks to its then-head, Hachisuka Koroku.






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The are descendants of Emperor Seiwa
Emperor Seiwa

Emperor Seiwa was the 56th Emperor of Japan of Japan, according to the traditional order of succession. His reign spanned the years from 858 through 876....
 (850-880) and are a branch of the Ashikaga clan
Ashikaga clan

The was a prominent Japanese samurai Japanese clans which established the Muromachi shogunate and ruled Japan from roughly 1336 to 1573.The Ashikaga were descended from a branch of the Minamoto clan, deriving originally from the town of Ashikaga, Tochigi in Shimotsuke province ....
 and the Shiba clan
Shiba clan

The was a Japanese clan claiming descent from the Seiwa Genji. A branch of the Shiba ruled Owari Province during the Muromachi Period....
 (Seiwa Genji).

Ashikaga Ieuji (13th century), son of Ashikaga Yasuuji was the first who adopted the name of Shiba. The Shiba were shugo
Shugo

was a title, commonly translated as "Governor," given to certain officials in feudal Japan. They were each appointed by the shogun to oversee one or more of the provinces of Japan....
 (governors) of Echizen, Owari and other provinces, and were during the Ashikaga shogunate one of three families (Shiba, Hosokawa and Hatakeyama) from which the Kyoto-kanryo (Prime minister of the shogun) could be chosen.

Shiba Masaaki, the descendant of Shiba Takatsune
Shiba Takatsune

was the Constable of Echizen Province during the 14th century Nanboku-cho Wars in Japan. He acted to block the northward progress of Nitta Yoshisada, who supported the Emperor of Japan Southern Court against the Shogun's Northern Court ....
 (+ 1367), established himself in Hachisuka, near Kiso river at the border of Owari and Mino provinces, from whence he took the name Hachisuka.

In the 16th century, the Hachisuka clan came to prominence thanks to its then-head, Hachisuka Koroku. His uncle held Hachisuka castle, and he lived first in Miyaushiro castle which was his mother's family home. Koroku served the Oda clan, being instrumental in several of the early victories of Oda Nobunaga
Oda Nobunaga

was a major daimyo during the Sengoku period of History of Japan. He was the second son of Oda Nobuhide, a deputy shugo with land holdings in Owari province....
. He later went on to serve under Toyotomi Hideyoshi
Toyotomi Hideyoshi

was a Sengoku period daimyo who unified Japan. He succeeded his former liege lord, Oda Nobunaga, and brought an end to the Sengoku period. The period of his rule is often called the Momoyama period, after Hideyoshi's castle....
.

His son, Iemasa, received Tokushima-han
Tokushima Domain

The was a Japanese Han of the Edo period, located in Awa Province and Awaji Province in Shikoku. Ruled by the Hachisuka clan family, it was rated at an income of 256,000 koku....
 as a new landholding from Hideyoshi, and from then until the end of the Edo period, the Hachisuka were the lords of Tokushima. They would be one of the few clans to retain the same landholding from the start of the Edo period to its conclusion. They also managed to retain a constant income rating of 256,000 koku
Koku

The is a unit of volume in Japan, equal to ten cubic shaku. In this definition, 3.5937 koku equal one cubic metre, i.e. 1 koku is approximately 278.3 litres....
.

In the late Edo period, the clan came into national focus thanks to the contemporary head, Hachisuka Narihiro
Hachisuka Narihiro

was a Japanese daimyo of the late Edo period, who ruled the Tokushima Domain. He was a son of the twelfth shogun, Tokugawa Ienari....
, who was a son of the 11th shogun, Ienari
Tokugawa Ienari

Tokugawa Ienari; ?? ?? was the eleventh shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan who held office from 1787 to 1837....
. The clan sided with the Kyoto government during the Boshin War
Boshin War

The was a civil war in Japan, fought from 1868 to 1869 between forces of the ruling Tokugawa shogunate and those seeking to return political power to the Emperor of Japan....
, and contributed troops to the fight in the north, as well as to security duties in Edo (Tokyo). The clan faced internal fragmentation a year later, in the form of the Inada Rebellion, but was peacefully dissolved in 1873 with the rest of the nation's han
Han (Japan)

The , or domains, were the fiefs of feudal lords of Japan that were created by Toyotomi Hideyoshi and existed until their Abolition of the han system in 1871, three years after the Meiji Restoration....
.

After the Meiji Restoration
Meiji Restoration

The , also known as the Meiji Ishin, Revolution, or Renewal, was a chain of events that led to enormous changes in Japan's political and social structure....
, the Hachisuka became part of the kazoku
Kazoku

The was the hereditary peerage of the Empire of Japan that existed between 1869 and 1947....
, Japan's new nobility system.