The Niwa clan (丹羽氏, Niwa-shi) was a Japanese samurai clan of northern Honshū that claimed descent from Emperor Kanmu via Prince Yoshimine no Yasuo (785-80) and Kodama Koreyuki (d.1069).[1]
^Papinot, Jacques Edmond Joseph. (1906). Dictionnaire d’histoire et de géographie du Japon; Papinot, (2003). "Niwa," Nobiliare du Japon, p. 43; retrieved 2013-5-5.
The Niwaclan (丹羽氏, Niwa-shi) was a Japanese samurai clan of northern Honshū that claimed descent from Emperor Kanmu via Prince Yoshimine no Yasuo (785-80)...
Niwa Nagahide (丹羽 長秀, October 16, 1535 – May 15, 1585), also known as Gorōzaemon (五郎左衛門), his other legal alias was Hashiba Echizen no Kami (羽柴越前守), was...
Niwaclan (丹羽氏) – cadet branch of Isshiki clan who descended from Seiwa Genji; no direct relation to the Kodama-descent Niwaclan (丹羽氏). Oda clan (織田氏)...
Niwa Nagashige (丹羽 長重, May 11, 1571 – April 30, 1637) was a Japanese daimyō who served the Oda clan. Nagashige was the eldest son of Niwa Nagahide and...
The Oda clan (Japanese: 織田氏, Hepburn: Oda-shi) is a Japanese samurai family who were daimyo and an important political force in the unification of Japan...
present-day city of Kōriyama. For most of its history it was ruled by the Niwaclan. The Nihonmatsu Domain was also the scene of a major battle of the Boshin...
Owari Province. Masaie served Niwa Nagahide who was a retainer of the Oda clan. Later, because the domain of the Niwaclan was badly reduced after Hashiba...
He was followed by his son, Niwa Mitsushige in 1637, but the clan was transferred to Nihonmatsu Domain in 1647. The Niwa were replaced by Sakakibara Tadatsugu...
undertaken by the Japanese Tokugawa shogunate against the Toyotomi clan, and ending in that clan's destruction. Divided into two stages, the winter campaign and...
the Tōhoku region of Japan. He was the 10th hereditary chieftain of the Niwaclan. His courtesy title was Saikyō-no-daifu, and his Court rank was Junior...
The term Rajput covers various patrilineal clans historically associated with warriorhood: several clans claim Rajput status, although not all claims...
from the Hata clan and from Silla settled in Mino in the Asuka and Nara periods. During the Kamakura and Muromachi Period, the Toki clan held the position...
the Tōhoku region of Japan. He was the 11th hereditary chieftain of the Niwaclan. His courtesy title was Saikyō-no-daifu, and his Court rank was Junior...
Hideyoshi. His son, Niwa Nagahige became daimyō of Tanagura in 1625 and was ordered to construct a new castle: however, the Niwaclan were very poor and...
Throughout most of the Edo period, Nihonmatsu Castle was home to the Niwaclan, daimyō of Nihonmatsu Domain. The castle was also known as "Kasumi-ga-jō"...
the Niwaclan. His courtesy title was Saikyō-no-daifu, and his Court rank was Junior Fourth Rank, Lower Grade. Mitsushige was the third son of Niwa Nagashige...
newly-created Iwamura Domain. They were replaced by the Niwaclan from 1638 to 1702, and finally by the Ishikawa clan from 1702 until the Meiji restoration. Subsequent...
The Isshiki-Niwaclan was a cadet branch of the Ashikaga clan, and was thus no relation to the more famous Niwa Nagahide, although both clans served Oda...
center of Nihonmatsu Domain, a 100,700 koku feudal domain ruled by the Niwaclan from 1643. This stele was engraved on a large stone of granite with a...
seven daimyō clans with a total of 21 daimyō (the Niwa, Sakaibara, Honda, three branches of the Matsudaira clan and finally the Abe clan) before reverting...
the Tōhoku region of Japan. He was the 12th hereditary chieftain of the Niwaclan. Nagahiro was the 9th son of Uesugi Narinori of Yonezawa Domain; his mother...
1908) was a Japanese samurai of the late Edo period. A retainer of the Niwaclan of Nihonmatsu han, Kuroda fought in the Boshin War, seeing action at the...
the Tōhoku region of Japan. He was the 11th hereditary chieftain of the Niwaclan. His courtesy title was Saikyō-no-daifu, and his Court rank was Junior...
awarded to Niwa Nagashige, who was ordered to build a completely new castle by Shōgun Tokugawa Hidetada. The Niwa were followed by the Naitō clan, who continued...
replaced by Niwa Ujinobu, formerly of Ibo Domain in Mikawa Province. He was from the Isshiki-Niwaclan, and was thus no relation to the more famous Niwa Nagahide...
repulsed the Miyoshi clan. On April, Mitsuhide worked together with Kinoshita Hideyoshi (later changing his surname to Hashiba), Niwa Nagahide, and Nakagawa...
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