is a Japanese

samurai were the hereditary military nobility and officer caste of History of Japan#Medieval Japan (1185–1573/1600), medieval and Edo period, early-modern Japan from the late 12th century until their abolition in 1876. They were the well-paid retai ...

family which was associated with Kai Province. Papinot, Jacques Edmond Joseph. (1906). ''Dictionnaire d’histoire et de géographie du Japon''; Papinot, (2003)
"Baba" at ''Nobiliare du Japon'', p. 4
retrieved 2013-4-11.

History

The Baba were vassals of the

Takeda clan The was a Japanese samurai clan active from the late Heian period until the late 16th century. The clan was historically based in Kai Province in present-day Yamanashi Prefecture. The clan reached its greatest influence under the rule of T ...

Select list of clan members

* Baba TorasadaLouis, Thomas and Tommy Ito. (2008)
''Samurai: The Code of the Warrior,'' p. 90
* Baba Nobufusa

References

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