Japanese clans
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This is a list of Japanese clans. The old clans mentioned in the Nihon Shoki and Kojiki lost their political power before the Heian period, during which new aristocracies and families, kuge, emerged i
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
Minamoto clan
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Minamoto was a noble surname bestowed by the Emperors of Japan upon members of the imperial family who were excluded from the line of succession and demoted into the ranks of the nobility since 814. S
Japanese clans
…Gempeitōkitsu (源平藤橘), 4 noble clans of Japan: Minamoto clan (源氏) – also known as Genji (源氏) or Genke (源家); 21 cadet branches of the Imperial House of Japan. Daigo Genji (醍醐源氏) – descended from 60th emperor Daigo…
Seiryō-ji, a temple in Kyoto, was once a villa of Minamoto no Tōru (d. 895), a prominent member of the Saga Genji
Emperor Saga (786 – 842)
Minamoto no Makoto (810 – 868)
Kabuto attached with Mon (emblem) of Minamoto clan (sasa-rindou)