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Arakawa clan

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Template:Japanese name The Arakawa clan (荒川氏, Arakawa-shi) was a Japanese samurai family which descended from Minamoto no Tsunemoto (894-961)[1] of the Seiwa-Genji.[2]

History

Arakawa was the original surname of the family which began calling itself "Ina clan" when it moved to the Ina region in Shinano Province in modern-day Nagano Prefecture. This move was ordered by the Ashikaga shogunate in the 15th century.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b Takahashi, Tomoko T. (2011). Samurai and Cotton: A Story of Two Life Journeys in Japan and America, p. 7.
  2. ^ Papinot, Jacques Edmond Joseph. (1906). Dictionnaire d’histoire et de géographie du Japon; Papinot, (2003). "Ina" at Nobiliare du Japon, p. 15; retrieved 2013-4-11.