The Kuroda clan (Japanese: 黒田氏, Hepburn: Kuroda-shi) was a Japanese samurai clan which came to prominence during the Sengoku period. The Kuroda clan claimed...

head of the Kuroda family at the age of 21 when his father, Mototaka, retired. In 1577, when Toyotomi Hideyoshi was spearheading the Oda clan's advance into...

banks of the Yamakuni River. In 1589, Kuroda Yoshitaka decided to retire from his position as the head of Kuroda clan, and Nagamasa inherited the family...

ancestor of the Sasaki, the Rokkaku, the Amago, the Kyōgoku and the Kuroda clans. In 1868, at the end of the Tokugawa period: The Kyōgoku were daimyō...

out that the name of Munisai appeared in Kuroda clan record under the category of "Kogofudai", or Kuroda clan vassals who had entered service before 1586...

Hyōhō Niten Ichi-ryū. According to the Kuroda clan records, Shinmen Munisai name appeared as a servant of Kuroda clan during the Sekigahara Campaign in 1600...

with policing the Kuroda clan's domain (Kuroda-han). During this period other schools (ryū) were created and taught in the Kuroda-han and in the various...

Castle in its place. In 1545, the Kuroda clan was stationed here by order of the Kodera clan, and feudal ruler Kuroda Shigetaka remodeled the castle into...

Sō clan (宗氏, Sō-shi) were a Japanese clan claiming descent from Taira no Tomomori. The clan governed and held Tsushima Island from the 13th through the...

West, including the armies of Katō Kiyomasa, Kuroda Yoshitaka, Nabeshima Naoshige, and the Tachibana clan. However, this operation was aborted once Shimazu...