Mibu clan

Mibu clan
Mibu clan
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Home province	Daizafu Domain (Kamizaki), Teiko
Parent house	Taira
Titles	various
Founder	Kyoichiro Mibu
Final ruler	Kyosuke Mibu
Current head	Kyodai Mibu
Founding year	1339
Dissolution	still extant
Ruled until	1858

Mibu clan (壬生氏, Mibu-shi) is a Teikonian dynasty that was formerly a powerful daimyō family. The clan founded the Mibu shogunate and its members ruled Teiko as shōguns during the Hakata Period from 1339 to 1858. After the end of the Mibu shogunate, the clan remained politically significant with many members becomming politicians and bureaucrats.

Significant members of the Mibu clan[edit | edit source]

Kyoichiro Mibu - founder of the Mibu shogunate
Kyosuke Mibu - last Mibu shogun
Kyou Mibu - former Daijō-daijin
Shinrei Mibu - former Daijō-daijin
Keikoku Mibu - former Daijō-daijin

Successive heads of the Mibu clan[edit | edit source]

Kyojiro Mibu (1811 - 1899)
Kyou Mibu (1839 - 1924)
Kyogo Mibu (1866 - 1944)
Kyoshi Mibu (1895 - 1983)
Kyousuke Mibu (1921 - 2011)
Kyokai Mibu (1948 - 2020)
Kyodai Mibu (b. 1971)
Kyomoto Mibu (b. 1995)

Significant vassals of the Mibu clan[edit | edit source]

Muramasa Senji (1543-1601) - Famous sword master and maker whose renown works are recorded in the journals of Jesuit priest, Francis Xavier.
Shinrei Jusaishi (1829-1914) - Served as regent of Mibu Kyokotsu and supported the independence of Kyushu from the Empire of Japan.

History[edit | edit source]

Order of succession[edit | edit source]

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