The Imagawa clan crest

The Imagawa clan family tree

The Imagawa clan (今川氏, Imagawa-shi^?) descends from Emperor Seiwa (850-880) and are a branch of the Minamoto clan by the Ashikaga clan. Emperor Seiwa (清和天皇 Seiwa-tennō) (Third month 25th day 850 - Twelfth month 4th day 880 was the 56th emperor of Japan, according was one of the honorary surnames bestowed by the Emperors of Japan of the Heian Period ( 794 – 1185 AD on those of their sons and grandsons who were not The was a prominent Japanese Samurai clan which established the Muromachi shogunate and ruled Japan from roughly 1336 to 1573

Ashikaga Kuniuji, grandson of Ashikaga Yoshiuji, established himself in the 13th century at Imagawa (Mikawa province) and took its name.

Imagawa Norikuni (1295-1384) received from his cousin the shogun Ashikaga Takauji the province of Totomi, and later that of Suruga. was the founder and 1st Shogun of the Ashikaga shogunate. His rule began in 1338 beginning the Muromachi period of Japan, and ended with

After the death of Yoshimoto at the battle of Okehazama in 1560, many Imagawa officers defected to other clans. The took place in June 1560. In this battle Oda Nobunaga defeated Imagawa Yoshimoto and established himself as one of the front-running warlords in the Within a decade the clan had lost all of its land holdings to the Tokugawa and Takeda clans. The was a powerful Daimyo family of Japan. They descended from Emperor Seiwa (850-880 and were a branch of the Minamoto clan (Seiwa Genji by the The was a famous clan of Daimyō (feudal lords in Japan's late Heian Period to Sengoku period. The Imagawa subsequently became the master of ceremonies for the Tokugawa.

Family-head successorship:

• Kuniuji
• Morouji
• Norikuni
• Noriuji
• Ujiie
• Yasumori
• Norimasa
• Noritada
• Yoshitada
• Ujichika
• Ujiteru
• Yoshimoto
• Ujizane

This surname-related article is a stub. (1436-1476 Imagawa Yoshitada the father of the famed Imagawa Ujichika and the 9th head of the Imagawa clan was one of the leading Daimyo (feudal lords in early Sengoku period Japan was a Japanese Daimyo who lived from the mid- Sengoku through early Edo periods He was the son of Imagawa Yoshimoto, and the father of Imagawa Norimochi A family name or last name is a type of Surname and part of a person's name indicating the family to which the person belongs You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.