is a
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samurai
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kin group.
[ Papinot, Jacques Edmond Joseph. (1906). ''Dictionnaire d’histoire et de géographie du Japon''; Papinot, (2003)]
"Nikadō," ''Nobiliare du Japon'', p. 42
retrieved 2013-5-5.
History
The Nikaidō claim descent from
Fujiwara no Yukimasa who was the first to take the Nikaidō name.
The clan ruled over the
Iwase District of
Mutsu Province during the
Sengoku period
The was the period in History of Japan, Japanese history in which civil wars and social upheavals took place almost continuously in the 15th and 16th centuries. The Kyōtoku incident (1454), Ōnin War (1467), or (1493) are generally chosen as th ...
.
Sukagawa Castle was their main residence.
Gifu Castle
During the
Kamakura period
The is a period of History of Japan, Japanese history that marks the governance by the Kamakura shogunate, officially established in 1192 in Kamakura, Kanagawa, Kamakura by the first ''shōgun'' Minamoto no Yoritomo after the conclusion of the G ...
, the clan's power stretched down to
Mino Province
was a province of Japan in the area of Japan that is today southern Gifu Prefecture. Mino was bordered by Ōmi to the west, Echizen and Hida to the north, Shinano to the east, and Ise, Mikawa, and Owari to the south. Its abbreviated fo ...
, where they constructed
Inabayama Castle atop
Mount Inaba between 1201 and 1204.
Clan heads
# Nikaidō Yukimasa (二階堂行政)
# Nikaidō Tameuji (二階堂為氏)
# Nikaidō Yukimitsu (二階堂行光)
# Nikaidō Yukiaki (二階堂行詮)
# Nikaidō Yukikage (二階堂行景)
# Nikaidō Haruyuki (二階堂晴行) (died July 2, 1542)
# Nikaidō Teruyuki (二階堂照行) (died October 22, 1564)
# Nikaidō Moriyoshi (二階堂盛義) (1544 – September 23, 1581)
# Nikaidō Yukichika (二階堂行親) (1570–1582)
#
Onamihime (阿南姫) (1541 – August 30, 1602)
Notable retainers and family
*Suda Morihide (須田盛秀) (1530–1625)
*Suda Hidehiro (須田秀広) (1572–1589)
*Suda Yoritaka (須田頼隆) (died May 27, 1590)
*Yadano Yoshimasa (箭田野義正) (1565–1623)
*Nikaidō Yukihide (二階堂行栄) (born 1581)
*Suda Teruhide (須田照秀)
*Suda Hideyuki (須田秀行)
*Nikaidō Tsugutsuna (二階堂続綱)
*Nikaidō Terushige (二階堂照重)
*Nikaidō Terutsuna (二階堂照綱)
*Nikaidō Yukinao (二階堂行直) (died 1348)
*Ōkubo Sukechika (大久保資近)
*Hamao Yukiyasu (浜尾行泰) (1543–1623)
*Hamao Moriyasu (浜尾盛泰)
*Hamao Muneyasu (浜尾宗泰) or Kawashima Muneyasu (川島宗泰)
*Moriya Shigekiyo (守谷重清)
*Moriya Toshishige (守谷俊重)
*Yadano Yukiyoshi (箭田野行義)
*Yadano Yukimasa (箭田野行政) (1524–1583)
*Yadano Yukimasa (箭田野行正)
*Hodowara Yukiari (保土原行有)
*Hodowara Yukifuji (保土原行藤) (1538–1620)
*Hodowara Shigeyuki (保土原重行)
*Endō Moritane (遠藤盛胤)
*Endō Katsushige (遠藤勝重)
*Yabe Yoshimasa (矢部義政)
*Shioda Masashige (塩田政繁)
References
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Japanese clans
Daimyo