Oyamada Clan

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 man’s interests, and incompatible with quick onward movement.
    Anthony Trollope (1815–1882)