Toki Clan

Toki clan 土岐氏
The emblem (mon) of the Toki clan
Home province	Mino
Parent house	Seiwa Genji
Titles	Various
Founder	Toki Yorisada (Minamoto no Mitsunobu)
Cadet branches	Asano clan Akechi clan Seyasu clan Ibi clan Hidase clan Osu clan Twara clan Toyama clan Funaki clan

The Toki clan (土岐氏, Toki-shi^?) is a Japanese kin group.

The Toki claims descent from Minamoto no Yorimitsu and the Seiwa genji.

As governors of Mino Province during the Muromachi period, Toki was the seat of the Toki clan.

The Toki founded Zen Buddhist temples, including Shōhō-ji and Sōfuku-ji in the city of Gifu.

Minamoto no Mitsunobu, a fourth generation descendant of Yorimitsu, was installed in Toki; and he took the nameToki Yorisada, whose maternal grandfather was Hōjō Sadatoki, shikken of the Kamakura shogunate, fought against the Southern Dynasty with Ashikaga Takauji.

From the Muromachi period to the Sengoku period, the Toki clan ruled Mino Province. Toki Yasuyuki was shugo (governor) of Mino, Owari and Ise. When shogun Ashikaga Yoshimitsu had tried to take Owari from him, Yasuyuki refused and fought for two years (1389–1391).

Toki Shigeyori sided with the Yamana clan during the Ōnin War and, in 1487, invaded the southern part of Ōmi Province. The principal line of the Toki lost their possessions in 1542 during the civil wars that decimated Mino Province. Toki Yorinari (then governor of Mino) was defeated by Saitō Dōsan.