Nagamasa. Bitō clan (尾藤氏) – descended from Fujiwara Hokke. Chiba clan (千葉氏) – descended from Kanmu Heishi. Date clan (伊達氏) – also known as Idate clan or Idachi...

deference to the Bito dynasty. Limited Bito Influence on Alur Structure: While acknowledging Bunyoro's influence on some lowland Alur clans, there was limited...

leading figures of the Sengoku and Azuchi-Momoyama periods. He was the Tenka-bito (天下人, lit. 'person under heaven') and regarded as the first "Great Unifier"...

Nagasawa [ja] as Saruzō Saburo Ishikura as Fujisaki Kanshiki-ka-in Isao Bito [ja] as Senba Keiji Kyoko Fukada as Haru Tamao Nakamura Mitsuko Kusabue Hideji...

Akiisho, Arabic: أكيشو) is a northern Somali clan, a sub-division of the Dir clan family. As a Dir sub-clan, the Akisho have immediate lineal ties with...

states record a change from Hinda to Bito rulers around the seventeenth century, referring to the extension of Bito dynastic influence from Bunyoro. Significantly...

rigid caste lines divided Bito society. The weakness of the Bito ideology was that, in theory, it granted every Bito clan member royal status and with...

ruler of the most northern Haya Kingdom, Kiziba, belonged to a rival clan, the Bito, which also ruled Bunyoro to the north. Their legends claimed that a...

that their "first Bito first king alotted Buganda to his son" or supposed twin brother. The kings of Buganda do not claim to be Bito and the Ganda do not...

cattle rearing), Huma (those engaged only in pastoralism) and the Bito (The royal clan descended from the Bachwezi and the Luo). Unlike in other kingdoms...