Yasuda clan

The Yasuda clan was a Japanese samurai kin group in the Sengoku period and Edo period.[1]

History

The clan was established by Ōe no Hiromoto.

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

  • Yasuda Zenjiro[1]
  • Hajime Yasuda[4]

See also

  • Yasuda zaibatsu
  • Yoko Ono
  • Paul Hisao Yasuda

References

  1. ^ a b Morikawa, Hidemasa. (2001). A History of Top Management in Japan: Managerial Enterprises and Family Enterprises, p. 61.
  2. ^ Goldsmith, Brian. (2008). Amassing Economies: The Medieval Origins of Early Modern Japan, 1450-1700, p. 262.
  3. ^ Lonien, Claude. (2003). The Japanese Economic and Social System: From a Rocky Past to an Uncertain Future, p. 44.
  4. ^ Sumiya, Mikio. (2000). A History of Japanese Trade and Industry Policy, p. 157.


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