The Suwa clan (諏訪氏, Suwa-shi), also known as the Jin or Miwa clan (神氏, Miwa uji / Miwa-shi or Jinshi) was a Japanese shake and samurai family. Originating...

created under the supervision of Suwa (or Kosaka) Enchū (諏訪（小坂）円忠, 1295-1364), a member of a cadet branch of the Suwa clan, originally a priestly lineage...

Suwa Yorishige (諏訪頼重) (1516–1544) was a Japanese samurai, daimyo (military lord) of Shinano province and head of the Suwa clan. He was defeated by Takeda...

shrine as priests, foremost among them being the Suwa clan, the high priests of the Upper Shrine of Suwa who were also revered as living vessels of the...

Suwa Grand Shrine (Japanese: 諏訪大社, Hepburn: Suwa-taisha), historically also known as Suwa Shrine (諏訪神社 Suwa-jinja) or Suwa Daimyōjin (諏訪大明神), is a group...

town of Suwa in Nagano Prefecture. It was also known as Takashima Domain (高島藩, Takashima-han). The Suwa clan had ruled the area around Lake Suwa in Shinano...

of Suwa (Suwa Taisha). Moriya is regarded as the mythical ancestor of the Moriya clan (守矢氏), a priestly family that formerly served in the Upper Suwa Shrine...

chief of Suwa Taisha, though details are uncertain. There are various theories regarding his parentage. During the Kamakura period, the Suwa clan served...

Shōin. Suwa clan (諏訪氏) – more or less unknown ancestors, many believed Suwa descended from Seiwa Genji through Minamoto no Tsunetomo. Tachibana clan (立花氏)...

and Katsuchika. Katsuyori, first known as Suwa Shirō Katsuyori (諏訪四郎勝頼), succeeded to his mother's Suwa clan and gained Takatō Castle as the seat of his...

(42.15 sq mi). The shores of Lake Suwa have been inhabited since at least the Japanese Paleolithic period. The Suwa clan ruled the area since the Nara period...

Province, the Inaba clan of Usuki Domain in Bungo Province, the Suwa clan of Shinshū, the Tamura of Ichinoseki, and the Mōri clan of Saeki in Bungo Province...

Ogasawara Nobusada Suwa Clan, Uehara Castle Suwa Yorishige Suwa Yoritaka Takatō Yoritsugu Takatō Yorimune Kiso Clan Kiso Yoshiyasu Other Clans opposing Takeda...

Kami-Suwa Station. Onsen-ji was founded in 1640 AD as the bodaiji of the Suwa clan, daimyō of Takashima Domain; however, as all temple records were lost...

clan, which the Suwa clan, the high priestly house of the Upper Suwa Shrine, had faithfully served as retainers. The status and prestige of the clan and...

recorded in the compilation of chronicles from the Oda clan, Shinchō kōki, that a woman from the Suwa clan defied Nobutada's forces. It is believed that many...

as well as a patron of hunting and warfare, and the ancestor of the Suwa clan, among others. Takitsuhiko A kami of waterfalls, the son of Ajisukitakahikone...

December to subdue Suwa Yoritada at Suwa in Shinano, where Tadatsugu manage to defeat Yoritada and secure his surrender to the Tokugawa clan this time. In...

destruction of his family, he escaped to Shinano Province and the home of Suwa Yorishige, where he gathered an army with which to return and try to regain...

mountain) situated in Suwa, Nagano Prefecture, Japan. The castle was constructed sometime in the fifteenth century by the Kuwabara clan. By the time it came...

young warlord made considerable advances into the region, conquering the Suwa clan's headquarters in the Siege of Kuwabara, before moving into central Shinano...

Suwa clan and Murakami Yoshikiyo cooperatively attacked Unno clan and their relatives at the Battle of Unnodaira. Unno clan including Sanada clan left...

castle located in Suwa, central Nagano Prefecture, Japan. At the end of the Edo period, Takashima Castle was home to the Suwa clan, daimyō of Takashima...

日本古代王朝の成立と百済 [The formation of ancient Japanese clans and Kudara] (in Japanese). アジア史研究会. p. 162. Suwa, Haruo (1993). 倭族と古代日本 [Yamato people and ancient...

District (下高井郡) Former Suwa Province: Ina District (伊那郡) Kamiina District (上伊那郡) Shimoina District (下伊那郡) Suwa District (諏訪郡) Tomono clan Iiyama Domain Suzaka...

coalition of Shinano daimyō including the leaders of the Suwa, Ogasawara and Murakami [ja] clans. Shingen's campaigns in Shinano took place during Japan's...

Kamio was the younger son of Kamio Heizaburō, a samurai retainer of the Suwa clan in Shinano province (present-day Nagano prefecture). He graduated from...

Tokugawa Ieyasu Shinshō Nakamaru as Sakai Tadatsugu Bandō Yasosuke V as Suwa Yorishige Yorie Yamashita as Nene Goryōnin Tsunehiko Kamijō as Murakami Yoshikiyo...

Takatō clan, retainers of the Suwa clan, who had dominated the area since the Kamakura period. Suwa Yorishige had an alliance with the Takeda clan, but...

rites formerly practiced in the Upper Shrine of Suwa, one of the two shrines that comprise the Suwa Grand Shrine complex in Nagano Prefecture (historical...