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Kikkawa clan 吉川氏 | |
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Home province | Izumo Aki Suō |
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Titles | Various |
Founder | Kikkawa Tsuneyoshi (吉川経義) |
Final ruler | Kikkawa Tsunetake (吉川経健) |
Founding year | 12th century |
Dissolution | still extant |
Ruled until | 1868 (Meiji Restoration) |
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.
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