Imagawa

The Imagawa were a branch of the Ashikaga family, named after a place in Mikawa where Ashikaga Kuniuji settled in the thirteenth century. Imagawa Norikuni received Tōtōmi and later Suruga from his cousin, Shōgun Ashikaga Takauji.

Imagawa Yoshimoto secured the succession in 1536 and built a powerful domain based in Suruga. In 1560 he was killed by Oda Nobunaga's forces at Okehazama; within a decade the Takeda and Tokugawa had taken the clan's lands. Yoshimoto's successor Ujizane later served the Tokugawa as a master of ceremonies.