Toki

The Toki were a warrior house claiming descent from Minamoto no Yorimitsu and the Seiwa Genji. In the twelfth century his descendant Minamoto no Mitsunobu was installed at Toki in Mino Province, and his line took the place as its family name.

Toki Yorisada campaigned with Ashikaga Takauji against the Southern Court, and from the Muromachi period the clan ruled Mino as shugo governors. Toki Yasuyuki held Mino, Owari and Ise and fought the shōgun Ashikaga Yoshimitsu for two years from 1389 when the latter tried to take Owari.

The main line's power was broken in the Mino civil wars of 1542, when Toki Yorinari was driven out by Saitō Dōsan. A surviving branch served Tokugawa Ieyasu and was enfeoffed in 1590 as a small-domain daimyō with 10,000 koku, settling at Numata in Kōzuke in 1742.