The Ōta clan (太田氏,, Ōta-shi) was samurai kin group which rose to prominence in Sengoku and Edo period Japan. Under the Tokugawa shogunate, the Ōta were...

Ōta Dōkan (太田 道灌, 1432 - August 25, 1486), also known as Ōta Sukenaga (太田 資長), was a Japanese samurai lord, poet and Buddhist monk. He took the tonsure...

Japan and 10th hereditary chieftain of the Kakegawa-Ōta clan. Ōta Sukekatsu was the eldest son of Ōta Sukemoto, the 5th daimyō of Kakegawa Domain. He was...

used "Minamoto" clan name in official records, such as the Ashikaga, Hatakeyama, Hosokawa, Imagawa, Mori, Nanbu, Nitta, Ogasawara, Ōta, Satake, Satomi...

Tsunahide Ōta Ujisuke Narita Nagayasu Tōyama Tsunakage Chiba Naotane Chiba Tanetomi Castles and retainers Odawara Castle : Home castle of Later Hōjō clan, Hōjō...

Kakegawa-Ōta clan. Ōta Sukenobu was the second son of Ōta Sukeyoshi, the previous daimyō of Kakegawa Domain, by a concubine. As his elder brother Ōta Suketake...

hereditary chieftain of the Kakegawa-Ōta clan. His courtesy title was Bitchu-no-kami. Ōta Sukeyoshi was the 7th son of Ōta Sukemoto, the 5th daimyō of Kakegawa...

Ōta Suketoki (太田 資言, 1769 – July 3, 1810) was the 4th Ōta daimyō of Kakegawa Domain in Tōtōmi Province, (modern-day Shizuoka Prefecture) in mid-Edo period...

Ōta Shigemasa, a Sengoku period samurai descended from Ōta Dōkan, who entered into the service of Tokugawa Ieyasu after the fall of the Go-Hōjō clan in...

Ōgigayatsu branch allied themselves with the Ōta clan, while the Yamanouchi were aligned with the Nagao clan. While the Ōgigayatsu were less numerous than...