Inaba clan

Inaba
Inaba clan crest
Home province	Mino
Parent house	Fujiwara clan via the Utsunomiya clan
Titles	daimyō, viscount
Founder	Emperor Kanmu via Kōno Michitaka
Final ruler	Inaba Masakuni
Founding year	14th century
Dissolution	still extant
Ruled until	1873 (Abolition of the han system)
Cadet branches	two cadet branches to the Meiji Restoration

The Inaba clan (稻葉氏, Inaba-shi^?) were a samurai kin group which rose to prominence in the Sengoku period and the Edo periods. Under the Tokugawa shogunate, the Inaba, as hereditary vassels of the Tokugawa clan, were classified as one of the fudai daimyō clans.

The Inaba clan originated in 16th century Mino Province, and claimed descent from Kōno Michitaka (died 1374), who claimed descent from Emperor Kanmu (736–805).

The senior branch of the Inaba are descended from Inaba Sadamichi (1551–1606), who was raised in rank by Oda Nobunaga in 1564. He was established in 1585 at Hachiman Domain (40,000 koku) in Mino Province. In 1600, he and his heirs were installed at Usuki Domain (56,000 koku) in Bungo Province, and his descendants remained in the same place until the Meiji Restoration in 1868. The head of this clan line was ennobled as a viscount (hakushaku) under the kazoku peerage in the Meiji period.

Tōzen-ji, a Buddhist temple in Edo, was considered the family temple of various clans, including the main branch of the Inaba clan.

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