The Fujiwara clan (藤原氏, Fujiwara-shi or Fujiwara-uji) was a powerful family of imperial regents in Japan, descending from the Nakatomi clan and, as legend...

no Umakai. Northern Fujiwara clan (奥州藤原氏) – also known as Ōshū Fujiwara clan; descended from Fujiwara no Hidesato. Tachibana clan (橘氏) – descended from...

were descended from Fujiwara no Hidesato. Fujiwara no Kiyohira, after his father's death, was raised as a member of the Kiyohara clan as his mother remarried...

Families The Fujiwara clan and its members Fujiwara no Kamatari Fujiwara no Fuhito Fujiwara no Michinaga Northern Fujiwara clan Fujiwara no Kiyohira Art...

founder of the Fujiwara clan, the most powerful aristocratic family in Japan during the Nara and Heian periods. He, along with the Mononobe clan, was a supporter...

by marrying into the imperial family. However, as the Minamoto clan and the Fujiwara clan gained power over the course of the 9th and 10th centuries, the...

of the Fujiwara clan, a powerful aristocratic family who had intermarried with the imperial family. Many emperors had mothers from the Fujiwara family...

which came with that name. Another Ashikaga clan, not related by blood, and derived instead from the Fujiwara clan, also existed. Emperor Go-Daigo (1288–1339)...

latter claims descent from the Inbe clan (忌部氏)). The Nakatomi clan, essentially the priestly branch of the Fujiwara clan, also placed the veneration of Takemikazuchi...

boy-sovereigns with Fujiwara regents; and his adopted son, Mototsune, carried out the plans. This member of the Fujiwara clan was the son of Fujiwara no Fuyutsugu...

to Kikuchi clan, and as the statue was made before Fujiwara clan existed, it's believed that Kikuchi clan was maybe older than Fujiwara clan. Japanese...

The Fujiwara Hok-ke (藤原北家, lit. Fujiwara northern house) was cadet branch of the Fujiwara clan of Japan. The other three were the Fujiwara Nan-ke, Fujiwara...

clan named "Saitō" that had previously hailed from Echizen province and claimed descent from Fujiwara Toshihito, of the Hokke branch of the Fujiwara clan...

The Honda clan (Japanese: 本多氏, Hepburn: Honda-shi or Honda-uji) is a Japanese family that claims descent from the medieval court noble Fujiwara no Kanemichi...

of the four great clans that dominated Japanese politics during the Heian period in Japanese history—the other three were the Fujiwara, the Taira, and the...

The Matsunaga clan (松永氏, Matsunaga-shi) is a Japanese Samurai Clan who are descended from the Fujiwara clan. The lineage of Matsunaga Danjo Hisahide strengthens...

clan were appointed viscounts in the new system of hereditary peerage. Oda Nobunaga first claimed that the Oda clan was descended from the Fujiwara clan...

The Adachi clan (安達氏) is a family of samurai who are said to have been descended from Fujiwara no Yamakage. Their historical significance derives from...

no Tadazane and a member of the politically powerful Fujiwara clan. He was the father of Fujiwara no Kanefusa and Jien. In the Hōgen Rebellion of 1156...

clan (足利氏, -shi) was a branch family of the Japanese Fujiwara clan of court nobles, more specifically Fujiwara no Hidesato of the Northern Fujiwara branch...

Ikoma clan (生駒氏, Ikoma-shi) was a Japanese samurai clan that claimed descent from Fujiwara no Fusasaki of the "Northern House" of the Fujiwara clan (Fujiwara...

those sons were the founders of the four principal lineages of the Fujiwara clan: the South, North, Ceremonial, and Capital lineages. Also, he had four...

even after an emperor reached maturity. This innovation allowed the Fujiwara clan to tighten its grip on power right throughout an emperor's reign. Mototsune...

is regarded as the common ancestor of numerous clans, including the Ōshū branch of the Fujiwara clan. Hidesato served under Emperor Suzaku, and fought...

Fujiwara no Yorinaga (藤原 頼長, May 1120 – August 1, 1156) was a Japanese statesman and a member of the Fujiwara clan who was highly significant in determining...

the Fujiwara clan began to marry off their daughters to the Emperor and assume the positions of Sesshō and Kampaku, thereby excluding other clans from...

The Fujiwara Nan-ke (藤原南家, lit. Fujiwara southern house) was a cadet branch of the Fujiwara clan of Japan. It was founded by Fujiwara no Muchimaro. Muchimaro...

The Mōri clan (毛利氏 Mōri-shi) was a Japanese samurai clan descended from Ōe no Hiromoto. Ōe no Hiromoto was descended from the Fujiwara clan. The family's...

from the Southern House of the Fujiwara clan (藤原南家 Fujiwara Nanke). The founder of Fujiwara's Southern House was Fujiwara no Muchimaro (680–737). His fifth...

The Itō clan (Japanese: 伊東氏, Hepburn: Itō-shi) are a Japanese clan of gōzoku that claimed descent from the Fujiwara clan through Fujiwara Korekimi (727–789)...