The Asano clan (淺野氏, Asano-shi) was a Japanese samurai clan that descended from the Minamoto clan, and the Emperor Seiwa (850-881), the 56th Emperor of...

maternal uncle, Asano Nagakatsu, Lord of Asano castle, younger brother of his mother, and succeeded him as the fourteenth head of the Asano clan. Until Nagakatsu...

films. He was born in Edo as the eldest son of Asano Nagatomo. His family was a branch of the Asano clan whose main lineage was in Hiroshima. His grandfather...

Kusakabe son of Emperor Tenmu. Asano clan (浅野氏) – cadet branch of Toki clan who descended from Seiwa Genji. Ashikaga clan (足利氏) – descended from Seiwa Genji;...

Hiroshima Domain was ruled for most of its existence by the daimyō of the Asano clan and encompassed Aki Province and parts of Bingo Province with a Kokudaka...

maternal uncle, Asano Nagakatsu, Lord of Asano castle, his mother's younger brother. He succeeded him as the fourteenth head of the Asano clan. Until Nagakatsu...

Arima clan of Kurume Domain (A) Arima clan of Kurume Domain (B) Arima clan of Kurume Domain (C) Asano clan of Hiroshima Domain (A) Asano clan of Hiroshima...

of the Akō Asano clan was realized as the Tokugawa shogunate did restore some lands (about 1/10 of the original holdings) to the Asano clan. In the famous...

larger scale. As this temple became the Edo bodaiji for the Asano clan, after the seppuku Asano Takumi-no-Kami Naganori for having broken protocol and drawing...

Twenty days later, the Asano samurai meet and vow to take revenge, but Ōishi Kuranosuke makes them wait a year to see if the Asano clan can be restored through...

The Ashikaga clan (Japanese: 足利氏, Hepburn: Ashikaga-shi) was a Japanese samurai clan and dynasty which established the Ashikaga shogunate and ruled Japan...

Asano (written: 浅野, 淺野 or hiragana あさの) is a Japanese language surname. Notable people with the surname include: Asano clan, samurai family in feudal...

The Asano-clan (浅野氏) is a yakuza group based in Okayama, Japan. The Asano-gumi is a designated yakuza group with an estimated 60 active members. The Asano-gumi...

branches at Daishōji and Toyama), the Yamanouchi clan of Tosa, the Kuroda clan of Fukuoka, the Asano clan of Hiroshima (and its branch at Hiroshima-shinden)...

offense, Shogun Tokugawa Tsunayoshi sentences Asano to commit seppuku and issues an edict stripping the Asano Clan of their lands and wealth. Kira, meanwhile...

Asano Nagatake (May 7, 1895 – January 3, 1969) was the 29th family head of the Asano clan, which ruled over Hiroshima Domain before 1871. Father: Asano...

piece of gold or silver kept by Ishida Mitsunari there. According to Asano clan Documents, there is popular belief that Mitsunari's reputation as military...

the name of the Asano clan. The right thing for the rōnin to do, writes Yamamoto, was to attack Kira and his men immediately after Asano's death. The rōnin...

Asano Nagayuki (June 27, 1864 – April 23, 1947) was the 28th family head of the Asano clan, which ruled over Hiroshima Domain before 1871. He was cousin...

Asano Yukinaga, the lord of Kai Province, was granted Kii Province. This led to the establishment of the Kishu Domain, which governed the Asano clan of...

Asano Naritaka (November 7, 1817 – February 5, 1868) was a Japanese daimyō of the Edo period, who ruled Hiroshima Domain. His childhood name was Katsukichi...

Keiko Matsuzaka as Aguri Kyōko Kishida as Ōishi Riku Ken Matsudaira as Asano Takumi no Kami Kohji Moritsugu as Maehara Isuke Goro Ibuki as Horibe Yasubei...

(1708–1752) Asano Munetsune (1752–1763) Asano Shigeakira (1763–1799) Asano Narikata (1799–1830) Asano Naritaka (1831–1858) Asano Yoshiteru (1858–1858) Asano Nagamichi...

castle located in the city of Akō, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan. Built by the Asano clan in the Edo period, it was the center of Akō Domain in western Harima Province...

Asano Nagayoshi (1927–2007) was the 30th family head of the Asano clan, which ruled over Hiroshima Domain before 1871. Asano's parents were Asano Nagatake...

collateral branch of the Asano clan who held Hiroshima Domain. It was a subordinate of Hiroshima Domain where the main line of the Asano clan ruled from. Mihara...

descendants, Ōishi Yoshio (1659-1703), Karō (Chief retainer) of the Akō Asano clan, leader and hero of the Forty-seven Rōnin's revenge against Kira Yoshinaka...

supported Tokugawa. From 1619 until 1871, Hiroshima was ruled by the Asano clan. Gallery Mitaki-dera Fudoin Hiroshima Castle After the Han was abolished...

Yoshinaka and was subsequently avenged by his now masterless retainers. The Asano clan was replaced at Akō Domain by Nagai Naohiro, formerly of Karasuyama Domain...

on August 27, 1619, following the transfer of the previous rulers, the Asano clan, to Hiroshima, in Aki Province. Yorinobu thus became the founder of the...