Kawachi Province were referred to as the chūō gōzoku (central gōzoku), while the term chihō gōzoku (regional gōzoku) referred to powerful clans outside the...

Masakado (平将門, died March 25, 940) was a Heian period provincial magnate (gōzoku) and samurai based in eastern Japan, notable for leading the first recorded...

This is a list of Japanese clans. The old clans (gōzoku) mentioned in the Nihon Shoki and Kojiki lost their political power before the Heian period, during...

Japonic or Japanese–Ryukyuan (Japanese: 日琉語族, romanized: Nichiryū gozoku), sometimes also Japanic, is a language family comprising Japanese, spoken in...

The Chiba clan (千葉氏 Chiba-shi) was a Japanese gōzoku and samurai family descending from the Taira clan. The clan was founded by Chiba Tsunetane, the son...

and others such as the Abe and Kiyowara were created by local Japanese gōzoku and became regional semi-independent states based on the Emishi and Japanese...

(平 忠常, October 19, 975? - June 28, 1031) was a Japanese samurai lord and gōzoku in the Heian period. He was the head of the Taira clan in the early 11th...

Japan Kazusa Hirotsune (上総 広常) (died 1183), Japanese samurai lord and gōzoku Aranami Kazusa (和沙 荒浪), Japanese voice actress Kazusa Murai (村井 かずさ) (born...

Transcriptions Romanization Gozoku Kyōwa...

reasons for this was that in the conflict between a certain village and the Gōzoku that ruled the surrounding area, shrines came to be enshrined as guardians...