Yasuda clan
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The Yasuda clan was a Japanese samurai kin group in the Sengoku period and Edo period.[1]
History
[edit]The clan was established by Ōe no Hiromoto.[citation needed]
In the Sengoku period, a branch of the Yasuda clan was made responsible for the collection of duties on the cloth trade.[2]
In modern history, the Yasuda are known as a "financial clan" because of their success in banking.[3]
Notable clan leaders
[edit]See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ a b Morikawa, Hidemasa. (2001). A History of Top Management in Japan: Managerial Enterprises and Family Enterprises, p. 61.
- ^ Goldsmith, Brian. (2008). Amassing Economies: The Medieval Origins of Early Modern Japan, 1450-1700, p. 262.
- ^ Lonien, Claude. (2003). The Japanese Economic and Social System: From a Rocky Past to an Uncertain Future, p. 44.
- ^ Sumiya, Mikio. (2000). A History of Japanese Trade and Industry Policy, p. 157.