Oyamada clan (小山田氏, Oyamada-shi?) is a Japanese samuari family group. It can refer to one of five different Japanese clans, including
- One claimed descent from the Taira clan. One famous descendant was the Sengoku period samurai general Oyamada Nobushige.
- One was descended from the Usa clan.
- One claimed descent from the Northern Fujiwara by way of Uesugi Shigefusa.
- One claimed descent from the Northern Fujiwara by way of Onomiya Saneyori.
- One claimed descent from the Northern Fujiwara by way of Kikuchi Noritaka.
Famous quotes containing the word clan:
“It has now become the doctrine of a large clan of politicians that political honesty is unnecessary, slow, subversive of a mans interests, and incompatible with quick onward movement.”
—Anthony Trollope (18151882)