Date Clan
The Date clan (伊達氏, Date-shi?) was a lineage of daimyo who controlled northern Japan (the Tōhoku region) in the late sixteenth century and into the Edo period. Their most famous member was Date Masamune, who established the family's power by avenging his father's death and through support of Tokugawa Ieyasu.
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—Richard Herrnstein (1930–1994)