The Yasuda clan was a Japanese

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Sengoku period The was a period in History of Japan, Japanese history of near-constant civil war and social upheaval from 1467 to 1615. The Sengoku period was initiated by the Ōnin War in 1467 which collapsed the Feudalism, feudal system of Japan under the ...

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Edo period The or is the period between 1603 and 1867 in the history of Japan, when Japan was under the rule of the Tokugawa shogunate and the country's 300 regional '' daimyo''. Emerging from the chaos of the Sengoku period, the Edo period was characte ...

.Morikawa, Hidemasa. (2001)
''A History of Top Management in Japan: Managerial Enterprises and Family Enterprises,'' p. 61

History

The clan was established by

Ōe no Hiromoto Ōe no Hiromoto (, 1148–1225) was a Japanese '' kuge'' (court noble) and vassal of the Kamakura shogunate, and contributed to establishing the shogunate's governmental structure. Life A great-grandson of the famous scholar Ōe no Masaf ...

. In the Sengoku period, a branch of the Yasuda clan was made responsible for the collection of duties on the cloth trade. In modern history, the Yasuda are known as a "financial clan" because of their success in banking.

Notable clan leaders

* Yasuda Zenjiro * Hajime YasudaSumiya, Mikio. (2000)
''A History of Japanese Trade and Industry Policy,'' p. 157

References

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History

Notable clan leaders

See also

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