The {{nihongo, Uda Genji, 宇多源氏} were the successful and powerful line of a

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Minamoto clan was one of the surnames bestowed by the Emperors of Japan upon members of the imperial family who were excluded from the line of succession and demoted into the ranks of the nobility from 1192 to 1333. The practice was most prevalent during the ...

that were descended from

Emperor Uda was the 59th emperor of Japan, Imperial Household Agency (''Kunaichō'') 宇多天皇 (59)/ref> according to the traditional order of succession. Uda's reign spanned the years from 887 through 897. Traditional narrative Name and legacy Befo ...

(宇多天皇).

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Many of the famous Minamoto warriors, including

Sasaki clan are a historical Japanese clan. Overview After World War II the clans of Sasaki-rokkaku were combined, the clans were spread out between South Eastern Asian islands and the head of the clan left Japan and eventually moved to the United States ...

(佐々木氏), also known as ''

Daimyō were powerful Japanese magnates, feudal lords who, from the 10th century to the early Meiji era, Meiji period in the middle 19th century, ruled most of Japan from their vast, hereditary land holdings. They were subordinate to the shogun and n ...

Kyōgoku clan The were a Japanese ''daimyō'' clan which rose to prominence during the Sengoku period, Sengoku and Edo period, Edo periods. The clan descend from the Emperor Uda, Uda Minamoto clan, Genji through the Sasaki clan.Papinot, Jacques. (2003)''Nobi ...

(京極氏);

Sasaki Nariyori (976–1003) was the progenitor of the Sasaki clan, having taken the name from his domain in Ōmi Province. He was the great-grandson of Minamoto no Masanobu, progenitor of the Uda Genji. Family * Father: Minamoto no Sukenori (951–998) * Mother: ...

(佐々木成頼), the founder of the Ōmi Genji clan (近江源氏); and

Sasaki Yoshikiyo was a samurai member of the Minamoto clan, who was the founder of Izumo-Genji clan. Background Sasaki Yoshikiyo was born the fifth son of Sasaki Hideyoshi, who was the head of the Sasaki clan of Uda-Genji (Uda-Gen clan), based in Sasaki-no- ...

(佐々木義清), the founder of the

Izumo Genji Izumo (出雲) may refer to: Locations * Izumo Province, an old province of Japan * Izumo, Shimane, a city located in Shimane Prefecture ** Izumo Airport * Izumo-taisha, one of Japan's most ancient and important Shinto shrines Ships * ''Izumo'' ...

clan (出雲源氏) belong to this line. The family is named after Emperor Uda, grandfather of Minamoto no Masazane (源雅信), patriarch of the Uda Genji (宇多源氏). Emperor Uda was father of Imperial Prince Atsumi (敦實親王 ''Atsumi Shinnō'') (892-966) - father of Minamoto no Masazane (源雅信) (920-993), founder of the Uda Genji, from whom the Uda Genji is descended. Many samurai families of Ōmi and

Izumo Province was an old province of Japan which today consists of the eastern part of Shimane Prefecture. It was sometimes called . The province is in the Chūgoku region. History During the early Kofun period (3rd century) this region was independent an ...

belong to this line and had used "Minamoto" clan name in official records, including

Rokkaku clan The was a Japanese samurai clan Papinot, Jacques Edmond Joseph. (1906). ''Dictionnaire d’histoire et de géographie du Japon''; Papinot, (2003).html" ;"title="DF 53 of 80">"Rokkaku" at ''Nobiliare du Japon'', p. 49 [PDF 53 of 80/nowiki>">DF 53 ...

, Kutsugi clan, Kuroda clan, Oki clan, Enya clan, Toda clan, Takaoka clan, Koshi clan, Sase clan, Nogi clan, etc. The Shinto shrine connected closely with the clan is known as the Sasaki Shrine (沙沙貴神社 ''Sasaki Jinja'').

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(867-931) ┃

Prince Atsumi A prince is a male ruler (ranked below a king, grand prince, and grand duke) or a male member of a monarch's or former monarch's family. ''Prince'' is also a title of nobility (often highest), often hereditary, in some European states. The ...

(893-967) ┃ Minamoto no Masazane(920-993) ┃ Sukenori(951-998) ┃ Nariyori(976-1003) ┃ Noritsune(1000-1058) ┃ Sasaki Tsunekata ┃ Sasaki Tametoshi ┃

Sasaki Hideyoshi was a samurai member of the Minamoto clan, who fought in the Hōgen and Heiji Rebellions and in the Genpei War. He was the adopted son of Minamoto no Tameyoshi since age thirteen. Overview Sasaki fought under Minamoto no Yoshitomo in the Hōg ...

(1112–1184) ┣━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━┳━━━━━┓ 　 Sadatsuna 　 Tsunetaka 　 Moritsuna 　 Takatsuna Yoshikiyo ┏━━━━━━┳━━━━━┳━━━━━┫ ┃ ┃ ┃ ┣━━━━━┓ Hirotsuna Sadashige

Hirosada (floruit, fl. c. 1819-1863) was the most prolific Osaka-based designer of ukiyo-e woodblock printing in Japan, woodblock prints during the late Edo period. Like most producers of —prints originating in the Osaka and Kyoto regions—he specializ ...

Nobutsuna Takashige Kaji Nobuzane Shigetuna Masayoshi Yasukiyo ┏━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━╋━━━━━━━━┓ ┏━━━━━┳━━━━━┫ Shigetsuna　 Takanobu　 Rokkaku Yasutsuna　 Kyogoku Ujinobu Yoriyasu　 Yoshiyasu　 Muneyasu

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* Tōin Kinsada (14th century).'

Sonpi Bunmyaku is a Japanese genealogical text. Originally written by Tōin Kinsada in the late 14th century, it was either 15 or 16 volumes in length. This was followed by re-edited editions eventually bringing the text to thirty volumes in length. The full tit ...

' (新編纂圖本朝尊卑分脈系譜雜類要集) *

Hanawa Hokiichi was a Japanese blind ''kokugaku'' scholar of the Edo period. Biography Hanawa was born in Hokino Village, Musashi Province (present day Kodama, Honjō, Saitama) to a farming family. His childhood name was Toranosuke. From an early age he had ...

(1793). 'Gunshoruiju' (群書類従) * Sansom, George (1958). 'A History of Japan to 1334'. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press.

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