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The Kikkawa clan (吉川氏, Kikkawa-shi) was a prominent samurai clan of Japan's Sengoku period. The most famous member of the clan is likely Kikkawa Motoharu (1530-1586), one of Toyotomi Hideyoshi's generals, who was adopted into the family. Along with the Kobayakawa clan, the Kikkawa played an important role in Hideyoshi's Kyūshū Campaign (1586-7), and later became daimyō in Izumo Province and Iwakuni after that.
The Kikkawaclan (吉川氏, Kikkawa-shi) was a prominent samurai clan of Japan's Sengoku period. The most famous member of the clan is likely Kikkawa Motoharu...
Kikkawa Motoharu (吉川 元春, 1530 – December 25, 1586) was the second son of Mōri Motonari, and featured prominently in all the wars of the Mōri clan. He...
to 1587, his father and his elder brother Kikkawa Motonaga both died and he became the head of Kikkawaclan. Around this time, he changed his name to...
clan, famous for Kikkawa Motoharu. Kikuchi clan (菊池氏) – descended from the Fujiwara clan. Kira clan (吉良氏) – cadet branch of Ashikaga clan who descended from...
The Tokugawa clan (Shinjitai: 徳川氏, Kyūjitai: 德川氏, Tokugawa-shi or Tokugawa-uji) is a Japanese dynasty which produced the Tokugawa shoguns who ruled Japan...
allies with the Kikkawaclan which was run by Takakage's brother. The Kobayakawa fought alongside the Kikkawa, Mōri, Toyotomi, and Ōtomo clans against the...
Aki-Takeda clan at the Siege of Koriyama in 1541. Motonaga adopted his sons into the Kikkawaclan and Kobayakawa clans to expand the power of the Mōri clan, and...
central government as a National Historic Site since 1940 as part of the Kikkawaclan castle ruins. Hinoyama Castle is located near the headwaters if the Gonokawa...
"Kikkawaclan fortification ruins" along with Surugamaru Castle and Hinoyama Castle. The Kikkawaclan (吉川氏, Kikkawa-shi) was a prominent samurai clan of...
throughout its history the Kikkawaclan. Iwakuni Domain was dissolved in the abolition of the han system in 1871. Kikkawa Hiroie was the grandson of Mōri...
brother Kikkawa Motoharu became known as the “Mōri Ryōsen", or “Mōri's Two Rivers" (毛利両川). As head of the Kobayakawa clan, he expanded the clan's territory...
"Kikkawaclan fortification ruins" along with Ogurayama Castle and Hinoyama Castle. The Kikkawaclan (吉川氏, Kikkawa-shi) was a prominent samurai clan of...
constructed by Kikkawa Hiroie from 1601 to 1608 as his own castle. Kikkawa was a retainer of a vassal of the Shōgun under the Mōri clan. However, this...
1805. The ship had been chartered by the Kikkawaclan to deliver mats, horse feed, and two passengers, Kikkawa officials. Her crew consisted of Captain...
Mōri clan: however, after the defeat of the Western Army at the Battle of Sekigahara in 1600, the area around Iwakuni was granted to warlord Kikkawa Hiroie...
Kikkawa Historical Museum (吉川史料館, Kikkawa Shiryōkan) is a private museum of artefacts handed down by the Kikkawaclan, daimyō of Iwakuni Domain, in Iwakuni...
was owned by the Yamana clan under Yamana Toyokuni, but had passed to the Mori and was guarded by their retainer, Kikkawa Tsuneie. Hideyoshi made efforts...
territory of Nagato, Yoshiki District in Suō, Aki, and Bingo, leaving Kikkawa Hiroie's territory intact, and returned Kobayakawa Takakage's estate to...
Hidenaga, Toyotomi Hidetsugu, Ukita Hideie and the Mōri clan's "Two Rivers", Kobayakawa Takakage and Kikkawa Motoharu. Opposing them were 40,000 men of Chōsokabe's...
the battle, Kikkawa Hiroie, vassal of the Western Army-allied Mōri clan, colluded with the Eastern Army and promised that the Mōri clan would change...
Although it was recorded in the historical document Chronicles of the KikkawaClan that the Population Census Edict was promulgated in 1591, more recent...
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