Arakawa clan

The Arakawa clan (荒川氏, Arakawa-shi) was a Japanese samurai family which descended from Minamoto no Tsunemoto (894–961)[1] of the Seiwa-Genji.[2]

In this Japanese name, the surname is Arakawa.

History

Arakawa was the original surname of the family which began calling itself "Ina clan" when it moved to the Ina region in Shinano Province in modern-day Nagano Prefecture. This move was ordered by the Ashikaga shogunate in the 15th century.[1]

References
  1. Takahashi, Tomoko T. (2011). Samurai and Cotton: A Story of Two Life Journeys in Japan and America, p. 7.
  2. Papinot, Jacques Edmond Joseph. (1906). Dictionnaire d’histoire et de géographie du Japon; Papinot, (2003). "Ina" at Nobiliare du Japon, p. 15; retrieved 2013-4-11.


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