Imagawa clan

Imagawa 今川
The emblem (mon) of the Imagawa clan
Home province	Suruga Tōtōmi Mikawa
Parent house	Ashikaga clan
Titles	Various
Founder	Imagawa Kuniuji (Ashikaga Kuniuji)
Founding year	13th century
Cadet branches	Horikoshi clan Sena clan

Imagawa clan (Japanese: 今川氏, Hepburn: Imagawa-uji) was a Japanese samurai clan that claimed descent from the Seiwa Genji by way of the Kawachi Genji. It was a branch of the Minamoto clan by the Ashikaga clan.

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 the provinces of Tōtōmi, and later Suruga, from his cousin Shōgun Ashikaga Takauji

Ounami no Kori, Mikawa (modern day Nishio, Aichi) mainly Suruga Province and Tōtōmi Province during the Warring States period

• Two hikiryou
• Yoshimoto's version of the akaitori (pictured)
• Two hikiryou and a paulownia planted in white soil

• Imagawa Sadayo
• Imagawa Yoshitada
• Imagawa Ujichika
• Imagawa Ujiteru
• Imagawa Yoshimoto
• Imagawa Ujizane

• Imagawa Sadayo, was a renowned Japanese poet and military commander who served as tandai ("constable") of Kyūshū under the Ashikaga bakufu from 1371 to 1395.

During the Sengoku period in the 1540s and 1550s, Yoshimoto Imagawa attempted to establish his clan as the strongest in eastern Japan. However, after the death of Yoshimoto at the Battle of Okehazama in 1560, many Imagawa officers defected to other clans. Once a powerful clan. Within a decade, the clan had lost its entire land holdings to the Tokugawa and Takeda clans. The Imagawa subsequently became masters of ceremonies in the service of the Tokugawa clan.^[1]

Separated by province name.

• Suruga Province: Imagawa Kan (later known as Sunpu Castle), Shizuhatayama Castle, Mochifune Castle, Tanaka Castle
• Tōtōmi Province: Kakegawa Castle, Takatenjin Castle (ja), Futamata Castle, Inui Castle, Hamamatsu Castle, Utsuyama Castle.
• Mikawa Province: Yoshida Castle, Tahara Castle, Okazaki Castle, Anjō Castle
• Owari Province: Katsukake Castle, Ōdaka Castle, Narumi Castle

• Shinagawa Takahisa, the son of Imagawa Ujizane. He was a hatamoto and served the Tokugawa clan.
• Imagawa Norinobu, an Imagawa of the late Edo period, was a wakadoshiyori in the Tokugawa administration.

Suruga

Tōtōmi

Tōtōmi (Horikoshi branch)

Tōtōmi (Sena branch)

• Jukei-ni
• Lady Tsukiyama
• Lady Hayakawa

Imagawa is a playable nation in Europa Universalis IV.

• (in Japanese) "Suruga Imagawa-shi" on Harimaya.com (12 July 2008)