The Kamiizumi clan was a Japanese clan that originated in Kai Province primarily during the Sengoku Period of the 16th century. The Kamiizumi clan served loyally under the local family of Uesugi throughout the course of the 16th century.
One very famous member of the clan of note was Kamiizumi Hidetsuna. Hidetsuna could be considered technically to be the creator of the Yagyū Shinkage ryū fighting style. This was through the fact that Yagyū Muneyoshi (the father of the famous Yagyū Munenori) served as a prime student under Hidetsuna. Through the fighting style that Hidetsuna passed down to Muneyoshi assisted in the birth of the Shinkage-Ryū.
The Kamiizumiclan was a Japanese clan that originated in Kai Province primarily during the Sengoku Period of the 16th century. The Kamiizumiclan served...
Ōgo clan that moved to nearby Kaigayagō Kamiizumi and took its name for their own. When the main Ōgo clan moved to Musashi Province, the Kamiizumi family...
of the Sagara clan in the Sengoku period and a swordsman in the early Edo period. He was considered one of the best pupils of Kamiizumi Nobutsuna, and...
returned into the service of the Sagara-clan on Kyushu and started teaching Shinkage-ryū. After Kamiizumi's death Marume changed the name of his style...
1526, and his skill at castle defense. He employed the famous spearman Kamiizumi Nobutsuna, who founded the Shinkage-ryū swordsmanship school. He gave...
for a time, with the young heir, Nagano Narimori, and famous swordsman Kamiizumi Hidetsuna, leading the defense. Intense hand-to-hand fighting eventually...
clan would experience a great rise of power, and engage in a protracted military campaign against its rivals, the Rokkaku clan and the Hosokawa clan,...
1586) was a retainer of Ikeda Katsumasa, head of the powerful "Setssu-Ikeda clan" of Settsu Province. Under Katsumasa, Murashige sided with Oda Nobunaga following...
as Ujiie Bokuzen (氏家卜全), was a Japanese samurai warrior. served the Saitō clan of Mino province. Later, he become a retainer of Oda Nobunaga. Naomoto was...
1508 – November 19, 1577) was a daimyō and head of the Yamato Matsunaga clan in Japan during the Sengoku period of the 16th century. He has historical...
Ashikaga Yoshiteru Kitabatake Tomonori Hosokawa Fujitaka Imagawa Ujizane Kamiizumi Nobutsuna Yamamoto Kansuke Shotaro Ikenami "The Last Journey of the Bokuden"...
able to capture the castle. The same technique was also used by Matsudaira clan during the siege of Kaminogō Castle in 1562. However, this account of the...
hostage to the Imagawa clan. The young Mototada served the then-Matsudaira Takechiyo as a page. After Ieyasu's return from the Imagawa clan, and his unification...
Minowa by 20,000 Takeda soldiers a sortie out of the castle was led by Kamiizumi Nobutsuna, this, however, resulted in a successful counter assault by...
Bizen Province, to Ukita Okiie, a local samurai leader and head of the Ukita clan. He has historical reputation as one of Japan's three ruthless figures (日本三大梟雄)...
as monk, but when his older brother Yoshiteru was killed by the Miyoshi clan, he returned to secular life and took the name "Yoshiaki". At the time, the...
retainer of the Ōuchi clan in the Sengoku period in Japan. He was the second son of Sue Okifusa, a senior retainer of the Ōuchi clan. His childhood name...
His mother was the sister-in-law of Toyama Yasumitsu, a vassal of the Hōjō clan (other sources say Suikeiin, Ujiyasu's principle wife). It's likely that...
cadet branch of the Takeda clan. When Nobutomo came of age, he entered into the service of Takeda Shingen, patriarch of the clan and lord of Kai province...
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