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Takatsukasa Clan
is a Japanese aristocratic kin group.Edmund Papinot, Papinot, Jacques Edmond Joseph. (1906). ''Dictionnaire d’histoire et de géographie du Japon''; Papinot, (2003)"Nijō," ''Nobiliare du Japon'', p. 58 retrieved 2013-8-13. The Takatsukasa was a branch of the Fujiwara clanLouis-Frédéric, Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005)"Takatsukasa-ke"in ''Japan Encyclopedia'', p. 937. and one of the Five regent houses, from which Sesshō and Kampaku could be chosen. The family crest of Takatsukasa is peony. History The Takatsukasa family was founded by Takatsukasa Kanehira, Fujiwara no Kanehira (1228-1294), who was the sixth son of Konoe Iezane; he was also the first to take this family name, named after the section of Kyoto in which the household resided. The Takatsukasa family, for the first time, died out in the Sengoku period following the death of Takatsukasa Tadafuyu, Tadafuyu, 13th head of the family, in 1546. Later in 1579, with the assistance of Oda Nobunaga, the third son of Ni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mon (badge)
, also , , and , are Japanese emblems used to decorate and identify an individual, a family, or (more recently) an institution or business entity. While is an encompassing term that may refer to any such device, and refer specifically to emblems used to identify a family. An authoritative reference compiles Japan's 241 general categories of based on structural resemblance (a single may belong to multiple categories), with 5,116 distinct individual . However, it is well-acknowledged that there exist a number of lost or obscure . The devices are similar to the Heraldic badge, badges and Coat of arms, coats of arms in European Heraldry, heraldic tradition, which likewise are used to identify individuals and families. are often referred to as Crest (heraldry), crests in Western literature, the crest being a European heraldic device similar to the in function. History may have originated as fabric patterns to be used on clothes in order to distinguish individuals or signif ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
