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The was a family of direct descent from
Minamoto no Morifusa, at which they obtained a great level of power by the beginning of the
Sengoku period of
Feudal Japan. To justify such a claim with evidence, a certain man by the name of
Akamatsu Morifusa was able to secure his respective clan power by means of defecting to the side of
Ashikaga during
Emperor Go-Daigo's
Kemmu Restoration -- initially lasting from
1333 -
1336. As this attempt for restoration ended in 36, the Ashikaga willingly awarded the Akamatsu governorship over
Harima province, which they controlled for many years following such a successful movement. Not defecting from the expectations of the
Ashikaga Shogunate throughout their control over Harima, and displaying clear traits of both loyalty and trust, the Akamatsu were generously rewarded by the succeeding
Ashikaga Yoshimitsu the additional governorship over
Bizen,
Mimasaka, and one of four head retainer families that provided their members to the Bakufu's
Board of Retainers.
As the Akamatsu ambitiously distributed some of their clansmen--such as
Akamatsu Mitsusuke--to obtain control over neighboring clans such as the
Yamana, Mitsusuke was seen by two consecutive shoguns as a dangerous individual, and they thus made their own respective attempts to have the former ousted from his headship over the Yamana with the favor of replacing him with a person of their liking and trust. Mitsusuke, who at first became a monk, to escape the first attempt, retaliated against the second -- even going to the extent of killing the Shogun in what Mitsusuke called the former's "victory celebration" against the Yuki family. Considering that the Yamana had obtained a new head by the time at which Mitsusuke temporarily retreated from secular life, this respective clan was able to collaborate together with the
Hosokawa and
Hatakeyama, effectively striking at the power of the Akamatsu with great force. The initial attack being unable to entirely wipe out the Akamatsu, the Akamatsu's power had been nonetheless depleted dramatically by the latter Sengoku Period, and they thus had little more opportunity then to become a retainer family under the
Toyotomi, at which they followed by either being wiped away by the victorious
Tokugawa in
1600, or by wisely collaborating with the former, resulting in their survival up until the
Edo Period.
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