Nishio clan (西尾氏, Nishio-shi) was a Japanese samurai kin group. The clan claims descent from the Kira clan, a branch of the Seiwa Genji line. Kira Yoshitsugu...

Nishio (西尾市, Nishio-shi) is a city located in Aichi Prefecture, in the Chūbu region of Japan. As of 1 October 2019[update], the city had an estimated...

of Yokosuka Domain, Nishio Tadayuki, in 1783 and married Tadayuki's daughter. Tadayoshi became daimyō and head of the Nishio clan after his adoptive father's...

period, and the 11th hereditary chieftain of the Yokosuka-Nishio clan. Tadaatsu was the son of Nishio Tadasaka, the 7th daimyō of Yokosuka Domain. His mother...

to the Nishio clan leadership as an infant. Tanaka Domain's revenues under the Nishio had been 25,000 koku; but since Tadanari's uncle Nishio Tadatomo...

from his cousin Shōgun Ashikaga Takauji Ounami no Kori, Mikawa (modern day Nishio, Aichi) mainly Suruga Province and Tōtōmi Province during the Warring States...

position of Rōjū. Tadanao was the fourth son of Nishio Tadanari, the first daimyō of the Nishio clan at Yokosuka Domain. He was recognized as heir apparent...

age 74. His grave is located at the Nishio clan temple of Ryumin-ji in modern Kakegawa, Shizuoka. (in Japanese) Nishio family genealogy (in Japanese) Japanese...

Suruga Province. In 1620, at the age of seven, he became head of the Nishio clan and daimyō of Tsuchura on his father's death. In 1621, he attended to...

Province. Tadakata was the fourth son of Nishio Tadayoshi, and succeeded his father as head of the Nishio clan and daimyō of Yokosuka in 1829. His wife...

Nishio Tadanao (西尾 忠移, 1749 – May 9, 1801) was a daimyō in mid-Edo period Japan, who ruled Yokosuka Domain in Tōtōmi Province. Nishio Tadayuki was the...

Nishio Castle (西尾城, Nishio-jō) is a Japanese castle located in the city of Nishio, eastern Aichi Prefecture, Japan. At the end of the Edo period, Nishio...

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...

Domain, Nishio Tadakata, to be his successor. When Tadakata retired from public life in 1843, Tadasaka became daimyō and head of the Nishio clan. Tadasaka...

(10,000 koku). Following this incident, Yokosuka Domain was assigned to Nishio Tadanari, formerly of Komoro Domain, Shinano Province, whose family ruled...

Tanaka Domain in Suruga Province in 1679. The next ruler of Komoro was Nishio Tadanari, formerly of Tanaka Domain. He made great efforts to undo the damage...

The Sakai clan (Japanese: 酒井氏, Hepburn: Sakai-shi) was a Japanese samurai clan that claimed descent from the Nitta branch of the Minamoto clan, who were...

Nisio Isin (Japanese: 西尾 維新, Hepburn: Nishio Ishin, born 1981), stylized as NISIOISIN to emphasize the palindrome, is a pseudonymous Japanese novelist...

the clan also served the Satomi clan, the Later Hōjō clan and the Satake clan. One branch relocated to Kyushu and served as karō to the Nabeshima clan during...

period, it initially part of a 30,000 koku domain controlled by the Nishio clan, but from 1623 was divided between territory controlled by Owari Domain...

Nishio Munetsugu (西尾 宗次, died 1635) was a samurai lord during the Azuchi-Momoyama and early Edo period. He was a vassal of Matsudaira Tadanao, the lord...

modern-day city of Nishio in Aichi Prefecture, Japan. It was centered on Nishio Castle. When Tokugawa Ieyasu became independent of the Imagawa clan in 1561, he...

castle passed through a number of fudai daimyō clans before coming under the control of the Nishio clan in 1682, under whose control it remained until...

the Nishio clan (Yakuza clan) kills Yoshie, the head of the hostile yakuza clan. When Tetsu is released from prison, he learns that Nishio clan has dissolved...

and were replaced by Nishio Tadanaga, who received Tsuchiura as a reward of his services in the Siege of Osaka. His son, Nishio Tadateru, was transferred...

Isshiki clan. However, by the Sengoku period, the province had fragmented into many small territories largely dominated by the Matsudaira clan, and contested...

after his father's death, serving as ally, vassal, and general of the Oda clan, and building up his strength under Oda Nobunaga. After Oda Nobunaga's death...

Kofun period burial mound, located in the Kira neighborhood of the city of Nishio, Aichi in the Tōkai region of Japan. The tumulus was designated a National...

rapidly over the past 70 years. Aichi Prefecture Chiryū Hekinan Kariya Nishio Okazaki Takahama Toyota The area of present-day Anjō has been continuously...

developed into a zaibatsu. The Ogura family served as retainers for the Nishio Clan which held possession of the Kanazawa Domain. Ogura joined the company...