Akamatsu clan
# Akamatsu clan

Akamatsu clan (赤松氏, Akamatsu-shi) is a Japanese samurai family of direct descent from Minamoto no Morifusa of the Murakami-Genji (Minamoto clan).

## History

They were prominent shugo-daimyō in Harima during the Sengoku period.

During the Ōnin no ran (1467–1477), Akamatsu Masanori was one of the chief generals of the Hosokawa clan.

The head of the clan at Shizuoka in Suruga Province became a kazoku baron in 1887.

The Shinmen clan were a branch of the Akamatsu.

## Select members of the clan

* Akamatsu Norimura (1277–1350).
* Akamatsu Norisuke (1314–1371).
* Akamatsu Mitsusuke (1381–1441).
* Akamatsu Sadaura
* Akamatsu Masanori (d.1577)
* Akamatsu Yoshisuke
* Akamatsu Norifusa (1559–1598)
