Kikkawa clan
The Kikkawa clan was a prominent samurai clan of Japan's Sengoku period. The most famous member of the clan is likely Kikkawa Motoharu, one of Toyotomi Hideyoshi's generals, who was adopted into the family. Along with the Kobayakawa clan, the Kikkawa played an important role in Hideyoshi's Kyūshū Campaign, and later became daimyō in Izumo province and Iwakuni after that.Origins
The founder of the clan, Kikkawa Tsuneyoshi, was a son of Irie Kageyoshi. The Irie clan descends from the Southern House of the Fujiwara clan through the Kudō clan.- Kikkawa Tsuneyoshi, son of Irie Kageyoshi, founder of the clan.
- Kikkawa Tomokane
- Kikkawa Tomotsune
- Kikkawa Tsunemitsu
- Kikkawa Tsunetaka
- Kikkawa Tsunemori
- Kikkawa Tsuneaki
- Kikkawa Tsunemi
- Kikkawa Tsunenobu
- Kikkawa Yukitsune
- Kikkawa Tsunemoto
- Kikkawa Kunitsune, his daughter married Mōri Motonari.
- Kikkawa Mototsune, he married the daughter of Mōri Hiromoto and sister of Mōri Motonari.
- Kikkawa Okitsune, his mother was the daughter of Mōri Hiromoto and sister of Mōri Motonari.
- Kikkawa Motoharu, second son of Mōri Motonari.
- Kikkawa Motonaga
- Kikkawa Hiroie
- Kikkawa Hiromasa
- Kikkawa Hiroyoshi
- Kikkawa Hironori
- Kikkawa Hiromichi
- Kikkawa Tsunenaga
- Kikkawa Tsunetomo
- Kikkawa Tsunetada
- Kikkawa Tsunekata
- Kikkawa Tsunehiro
- Kikkawa Tsunekira
- Kikkawa Tsunemasa
- Kikkawa Tsunetake
Clan members of note
- Kikkawa Tsuneie
- Kikkawa Motoharu - General under Hideyoshi; died in Kyūshū Campaign
- Kikkawa Motonaga - Son of Motoharu
- Kikkawa Hiroie - Son of Motoharu; Daimyō of Izumo and later Iwakuni
- Kikkawa Hiromasa - Son of Motoharu
- Yoshikawa Koretari - also known as Kikkawa Koretari; Shintō philosopher
- Kikkawa Reika - Yamato-e painter
