The Andō clan (安藤氏, Andō-shi) is a Japanese samurai kin group. The clan claims descent from Abe no Hirafu and Abe no Nakamaro. During the Kamakura period...

holdings in Mino. The Andō clan continued to rule Iwakitaira domain through the remainder of the Edo period. The 5th Andō daimyō, Andō Nobumasa was active...

but it was completed during the life of Andō Tadasue (d.1511), the chieftain of the Hiyama Andō clan. The Andō were possibly descendants of the indigenous...

Sadato of the Abe clan. The Akita clan was originally known as the Andō clan (安東氏, Andō-shi). In the Kamakura period, they were installed in the Tsugaru...

weightlifter Kisaburō Andō (安藤 紀三郎, 1874–1954), Japanese general and wartime Home Minister Andō Kiyosue (安東 舜季, 1514–1553), Japanese daimyō Koki Ando (安藤 宏基, born...

cadet branch of Takeda clan who descended from Seiwa Genji. Andō clan – descended from Abe clan of Ōshū, by Abe no Hirafu. Asakura clan (朝倉氏) – descended from...

the rule of the Andō clan. They traded heavily with the Ainu in Ezo. However, conflict would break out between the Ainu and the Andō clan in 1268 and again...

and Wakasa-Takeda clans, was the founder during the Muromachi period. Nobuhiro succeeded Kakizaki Suishige, appointed by Masasue Ando as the shugo of Kamigoku...

region of Japan, and the 10th hereditary chieftain of the Andō clan. He was the eldest son of Andō Nobuyori and his mother was a daughter of Matsudaira Nobuakira...

invasions of Sakhalin, the Ainu of Tsugaru rose up against the powerful Andō clan (安東氏) of northern Japan in a war that lasted from 1268 to 1328 called...