Kawakatsu clan
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The was a Japanese clan that claimed descent from the Hata clan. In the Edo period, several of the clan's branches were hatamoto
families.
Hatamoto
A was a samurai in the direct service of the Tokugawa shogunate of feudal Japan. While all three of the shogunates in Japanese history had official retainers, in the two preceding ones, they were referred to as gokenin. However, in the Edo period, hatamoto were the upper vassals of the Tokugawa...
families.