People / group
Ōtomo clan
The Ōtomo clan was a Japanese warrior family that held Bungo province in north-eastern Kyushu as military governors from the Kamakura period. Under Ōtomo Sōrin, who became a Christian, it dominated northern Kyushu in the mid-16th century, but it was crushed by the Shimazu at Mimikawa in 1578. It survived under Toyotomi Hideyoshi until he confiscated Bungo in 1593.
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- The Epoch Institute. (2026). Ōtomo clan. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/otomo-clan
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