The Akizuki clan was a Japanese samurai clan who ruled Takanabe Domain of what is now part of Miyazaki Prefecture in Kyushu Japan under the Edo period Tokugawa shogunate. In the Meiji period, the former daimyō became part of the kazoku peerage, with Tsugaru Tsuguakira receiving the title of shishaku (Viscount).
Akizuki clan emblem
Akizuki Tanehide, 29th chieftain of the Akizuki clan, in 1913
This is a list of Japanese clans. The old clans (gōzoku) mentioned in the Nihon Shoki and Kojiki lost their political power before the Heian period, during which new aristocracies and families, kuge, emerged in their place. After the Heian period, the samurai warrior clans gradually increased in importance and power until they came to dominate the country after the founding of the first shogunate.
Mon of the Akita clan
Mon of the Inoue clan
Crown of Baekje found in the Tomb of King Muryeong
Kudara shrine of the Kudara no Konikishi clan