Asakura clan

Asakura clan
朝倉氏
Asakura clan; 朝倉氏
	The Asakura clan mon
Home province	Echizen
Parent house	Kusakabe clan (purported)
Titles	Various
Final ruler	Asakura Yoshikage
Dissolution	1573
Ruled until	1573, Asakura Yoshikage commits seppuku

The Asakura clan (朝倉氏, Asakura-shi) is a Japanese kin group.^[1]

History[]

The clan claims descent from Prince Kusakabe (662–689), who was the son of Emperor Tenmu (631–686).^[1]

The family was a line of daimyō (feudal lords) which, along with the Azai clan, opposed Oda Nobunaga in the late 16th century.

The Asakura were defeated by Nobunaga at the Battle of Anegawa in 1570; the family's home castle of Ichijōdani was taken in 1573.^{[citation needed]}

(1583–1637), nephew of Asakura Yoshikage, was allied with Toyotomi Hideyoshi and with Tokugawa Ieyasu. In 1625, he was granted Kakegawa Domain (25,000 koku) in Tōtōmi Province. In 1632, he was implicated in a plot, causing him to be dispossessed and banished to Koriyama, where he died.^[1]

(1428–1481)
Asakura Ujikage (1449-1486)
Asakura Sadakage (1473–1512)
(1493–1546)
Asakura Yoshikage (1533–1573)^[1]

Asakura Norikage (1477–1555)
Asakura Kageaki (1529-1574)
Asakura Kagetake (1536–1575)
Asakura Kagetsura (d.1570)
(1583-1637)

^ Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c ^d Papinot, Jacques Edmond Joseph. (1906). Dictionnaire d'histoire et de géographie du Japon; Papinot, (2003). "Asakura", Nobiliare du Japon, p. 3 [PDF 7 of 80]; retrieved 2013-5-4.