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{{family name hatnote|Inaba|lang=Japanese}}
{{Japanese clan name|
|surname = Inaba
|surname nihongo = 稲葉
|image  = Inaba crest1.svg
|caption  = Inaba clan [[Family crest]] (''kamon'')
|province of origin     =[[Mino Province|Mino]]
|parent house   = [[Kōno clan]]
|titles         =''[[daimyō]]'', [[viscount]]
|founder        = [[Emperor Kanmu]] via [[Kōno Michitaka]] 
|final ruler    = Inaba Masakuni
|current head   =
|founding year  = 14th century
|dissolution    = still extant
|ruled until    = 1873 ([[Abolition of the han system]])
|cadet branches = two cadet branches to the [[Meiji Restoration]]
}}

The {{Nihongo|'''Inaba clan'''|稲葉氏|Inaba-shi|lead=yes}} were a ''[[samurai]]'' kin group which rose to prominence in the [[Sengoku period]] and the [[Edo period]]s.<ref name="gk1">Meyer, Eva-Maria. [https://uni-tuebingen.de/geschichte-japans/manabu/shoshidai.htm "Gouverneure von Kyôto in der Edo-Zeit".] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080411113817/http://www.uni-tuebingen.de/geschichte-japans/manabu/shoshidai.htm |date=2008-04-11 }} Universität Tübingen (in German)</ref> Under the [[Tokugawa shogunate]], the Inaba, as hereditary vassals of the [[Tokugawa clan]], were classified as one of the ''[[fudai]]'' ''daimyō'' clans.<ref name="a75">Appert, Georges. (1888). [https://books.google.com/books?id=CSUNAAAAYAAJ&q=ancien+japon+georges+appert&pg=PA75  ''Ancien Japon,'' p. 75]</ref>

=={{anchor|Inaba clan genealogy}}Inaba clan genealogy==
The Inaba clan originated in 16th century [[Mino Province]],<ref name="a67">Appert, Georges. (1888). [https://books.google.com/books?id=CSUNAAAAYAAJ&q=ancien+japon+georges+appert&pg=PA67  ''Ancien Japon'', p. 67.]</ref> and claimed descent from [[Kōno Michitaka]] (died 1374),<ref name="p15">[[Edmond Papinot|Papinot, Edmond]]. (2003). [http://www.unterstein.net/Toyoashihara-no-Chiaki-Nagaioaki-no-Mitsuho-no-Kuni/NobiliaireJapon.pdf ''Nobiliare du Japon'' -- Inaba, p. 15]; Papinot, Jacques Edmond Joseph. (1906). ''Dictionnaire d’histoire et de géographie du Japon.'' (in French/German).</ref> who claimed descent from [[Emperor Kanmu]] (736–805).<ref>[http://www.ancestry.com/facts/Inaba-name-meaning.ashx "Inaba" at Ancestry.com] citing Hank, Patrick, ed. (2003). [https://books.google.com/books?id=ugEEAAAACAAJ&q=Dictionary+of+American+Family+Names  ''Dictionary of American Family Names.'']</ref>

===Main branch===
The senior branch of the Inaba are descended from [[Inaba Sadamichi]] (1551–1606),<ref name="p15"/> who was raised in rank by [[Oda Nobunaga]] in 1564.<ref name="a67"/>  He was established in 1585 at [[Hachiman Domain]] (40,000 ''[[koku]]'') in Mino Province.<ref name="p15"/>  In 1600, he and his heirs were installed at [[Usuki Domain]] (56,000 ''koku'') in [[Bungo Province]], and his descendants remained in the same place until the [[Meiji Restoration]] in 1868.<ref name="a67"/>  The head of this clan line was ennobled as a [[viscount]] (''hakushaku'') under the ''[[kazoku]]'' peerage in the [[Meiji period]].<ref name="p15"/>

===Main branch head family===
# [[Inaba Michisada]]
# [[Inaba Michinori]]
# [[Inaba Yoshimichi]]
# [[Inaba Sadamichi]] (1546–1603)
# [[Inaba Norimochi]] (1566–1626)
# [[Inaba Kazumichi]] (1587–1641)
# [[Inaba Nobumichi]] (1608–1673)
# [[Inaba Kagemichi]] (1639–1694)
# [[Inaba Tomomichi]] (1652–1706)
# [[Inaba Tsunemichi]] (1690–1720)
# [[Inaba Masamichi]] (1706–1737)
# [[Inaba Yasumichi]] (1730–1768)
# [[Inaba Hiromichi]] (1752–1818)
# [[Inaba Terumichi]] (1776–1847)
# [[Inaba Takamichi]] (1801–1821)
# [[Inaba Chikamichi]] (1815–1844)
# [[Inaba Akimichi]] (1839–1862)
# [[Inaba Hisamichi]] (1843–1893)
# [[Inaba Yukimichi]]
# [[Inaba Naomichi]]
# [[Inaba Takeo]]
# [[Inaba Lilika Rea]] (2001–)

===Cadet lines===
* A cadet branch descended from [[Inaba Masanari]] (1571–1628), who fought in the armies of  Oda Nobunaga and then [[Toyotomi Hideyoshi]].<ref name="p15"/>  This branch of the Inaba was created in 1588.<ref name="a67"/> In 1619, following the establishment of the [[Tokugawa shogunate]], Inaba Masanari was forced to divorce his wife, in order for her to become the [[wet-nurse]] of future Shōgun [[Tokugawa Iemitsu]] ([[Lady Kasuga|Kasuga-no-Tsubone]]. He was granted [[Itoigawa Domain]] (25,000 ''koku'') in [[Echigo Province]] in return; then, in 1627, his holding was transferred to [[Mōka Domain]] (65,000 ''koku'') in [[Shimotsuke Province]]. His descendants resided successively at [[Odawara Domain]] (105,000 ''koku'') in [[Sagami Province]] from 1632 through 1685, at [[Takada Domain]] in Echigo province from 1685 through 1701, and at [[Sakura Domain]] in [[Shimōsa Province]] from 1701 through 1723.<ref name="p15"/>  Inaba Masanari's heirs settled at [[Yodo Domain]] (115,000 ''koku'') in [[Yamashiro Province]] from 1723 through 1868.<ref name="a67"/>  The head of this clan line was ennobled as a viscount in the Meiji period.<ref name="p15"/>
* Another cadet branch of the Inaba clan was created in 1781.<ref name="a67"/>  From 1785 through 1868, this branch of the clan continued to live at [[Tateyama Domain]] (10,000 ''koku'') in [[Awa Province (Chiba)|Awa Province]]. The head of this clan line was ennobled as a viscount in the Meiji period.<ref name="p15"/>

==Clan temple==
[[Tōzen-ji]], a [[Buddhist temple]] in [[Edo]], was considered the family temple of various clans, including the main branch of the Inaba clan.<ref>[[Hugh Cortazzi|Cortazzi, Hugh]]. (2000). [https://books.google.com/books?id=G2fQYReqBNIC&dq=inaba+clan&pg=PA211  ''Collected Writings of Sir Hugh Cortazzi'', Vol. II, pp. 210]-211.</ref>

==Notable members==
:{{dynamic list}}
* [[Inaba Masanari]] (1571 – October 14, 1628)
* [[Inaba Masayasu]] (1640–1684), ''[[Wakadoshiyori]]'' and assassin of ''[[Tairō]]'' [[Hotta Masatoshi]]
* [[Inaba Masamichi]] (1623–1696), 7th [[Kyoto Shoshidai|Kyoto ''shoshidai'']].<ref name="gk1"/>
* [[Inaba Masanobu]] (1749–1806), 34th Kyoto ''shoshidai''.<ref name="gk1"/>
* [[Inaba Masami]] (1815–1879), ''Wakadoshiyori'', ''[[Rōjū]]'', Commissioner of the Army and Fleet Admiral of the Tokugawa Navy
* [[Inaba Masakuni]] (1834–1898), 55th Kyoto ''shoshidai''.<ref name="gk1"/>

==Notes==
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==References==
* Appert, Georges and H. Kinoshita. (1888). [https://books.google.com/books?id=HYc_AAAAMAAJ&q=ancien+japon  ''Ancien Japon''.] Tokyo: Imprimerie Kokubunsha.
* [[Hugh Cortazzi|Cortazzi, Hugh]]. (2000). [https://books.google.com/books?id=G2fQYReqBNIC&q=inaba+clan  ''Collected Writings of Sir Hugh Cortazzi'', Vol. II.] London: [[Routledge]].  {{ISBN|1-873410-92-1}}
* Hank, Patrick, ed. (2003). [https://books.google.com/books?id=ugEEAAAACAAJ&q=Dictionary+of+American+Family+Names  ''Dictionary of American Family Names''.] New York: [[Oxford University Press]]. {{ISBN|978-0-19-508137-4}} (cloth)
* Meyer, Eva-Maria. (1999). ''Japans Kaiserhof in de Edo-Zeit: Unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Jahre 1846 bis 1867''. Münster: Tagenbuch. {{ISBN|3-8258-3939-7}}
* [[Edmond Papinot|Papinot, Edmond]]. (1906) ''Dictionnaire d'histoire et de géographie du japon''. Tokyo: Librarie Sansaisha.[http://www.unterstein.net/Toyoashihara-no-Chiaki-Nagaioaki-no-Mitsuho-no-Kuni/NobiliaireJapon.pdf ..Click link for digitized 1906 ''Nobiliaire du japon'' (2003)]
* Sasaki, Suguru. (2002). ''Boshin sensō: haisha no Meiji ishin''. Tokyo: Chūōkōron-shinsha.

==External links==
* [[National Diet Library]]: [http://www.ndl.go.jp/scenery/e/data/118/index.html NDL call number: YDM23880], photo of Edo residence of Yodo (Inaba) clan
*{{in lang|ja}} [http://www2.harimaya.com/sengoku/html/inaba_k.html "Inaba-shi" on Harimaya.com] (23 February 2008)

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