The Asakura clan (朝倉氏 Asakura-shi?) are descendants of Prince Kusakabe (662-689), son of Emperor Temmu (631-686). (c 631 - October 1 686) was the 40th Emperor of Japan, according to the traditional order of succession
The family was a line of daimyō (feudal lords) which, along with the Azai clan, opposed Oda Nobunaga in the late 16th century. The ( were powerful territorial lords who ruled most of Japan from their vast hereditary land holdings The was a line of Daimyo (feudal lords during Japan 's Sengoku period that was based in Ōmi Province (present day Shiga Prefecture) ( June 23, 1534 &ndash June 21, 1582) was a major Daimyo during the Sengoku period of Japanese history They were defeated by Nobunaga at the battle of Anegawa in 1570, and all but eliminated when their home castle of Ichijōdani was taken three years later. The 1570 came as a reaction to Oda Nobunaga 's sieges of the castles of Odani and Yokoyama which belonged to the Azai and Asakura clans are historic ruins located in the Kidonouchi section of Fukui, Fukui Prefecture, Japan.
Asakura of Note
- Asakura Toshikage (1428-1481)
- Asakura Norikage (1474-1552)
- Asakura Takakage (1493-1546)
- Asakura Yoshikage (1533-1573)
- Asakura Kagetake (d. (1477-1555 was the eighth son of Asakura Toshikage and one of the prime entities of power under headship during the early Sengoku Period of Feudal Japan. ( October 12, 1533 - September 16, 1573) was a Japanese Daimyo of the Sengoku period, who ruled a part of Echizen Province ( 1536 - September 25, 1575) was a Japanese Samurai of the Sengoku era. 1575)
References
- Turnbull, Stephen (1998). Stephen Richard Turnbull is an Historian specializing in eastern Military history, especially the Samurai of Japan. 'The Samurai Sourcebook'. London: Cassell & Co.
- Turnbull, Stephen (2002). 'War in Japan: 1467-1615'. Oxford: Osprey Publishing.
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