Back ماتسودايرا Arabic Clan Matsudaira Catalan Matsudaira German Macudajra (klano) Esperanto Clan Matsudaira Spanish خاندان ماتسودایرا Persian Matsudaira-klaani Finnish Clan Matsudaira French Clan Matsudaira Italian 松平氏 Japanese
| Matsudaira 松平 | |
|---|---|
 Mon: Maru ni Mitsuba-aoi | |
| Home province | Mikawa |
| Parent house |  Minamoto clan |
| Titles | Various |
| Founder | Matsudaira Chikauji |
| Final ruler | Tokugawa Yoshinobu |
| Current head | Iehiro Tokugawa |
| Founding year | 14th century |
| Dissolution | Still extant as Tokugawa clan |
| Ruled until | 1873 (Abolition of the han system) |
| Cadet branches | Various |
The Matsudaira clan (松平氏, Matsudaira-shi) was a Japanese samurai clan that descended from the Minamoto clan. It originated in and took its name from Matsudaira village, in Mikawa Province (modern-day Aichi Prefecture). During the Sengoku period, the chieftain of the main line of the Matsudaira clan, Matsudaira Motoyasu became a powerful regional daimyo under Oda Nobunaga and Toyotomi Hideyoshi and changed his name to Tokugawa Ieyasu. He subsequently seized power as the first shōgun of the Tokugawa shogunate which ruled Japan during the Edo period until the Meiji Restoration of 1868. Under the Tokugawa shogunate, many cadet branches of the clan retained the Matsudaira surname, and numerous new branches were formed in the decades after Ieyasu. Some of those branches were also of daimyō status.
After the Meiji Restoration and the abolition of the han system, the Tokugawa and Matsudaira clans became part of the new kazoku nobility.[1]
- ^ Papinot, Jacques Edmond Joseph. (1906). Dictionnaire d’histoire et de géographie du Japon; Papinot, (2003). "Matsudaira" at Nobiliare du Japon, p. 29; retrieved 2013-7-11.