During the succession crisis in the 15th century, Shinkuro became associated with the Imagawa clan via the marriage of his sister to the Imagawa head, who led an army to Kyoto.

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Jubei Kibagami and Shinkuro are members of this ninja team.

Later, Gemma orders Shinkuro and others to kill Jubei, hoping they would all kill each other, thus eliminating everyone who knew about the mine.

Reluctantly, Jubei kills Shinkuro and the others in self-defense.

While Gemma is riding along a pass, Jubei springs from the snow and cuts off his head to avenge Shinkuro and the others.

Through this relationship Shinkuro quickly established a base of power in Kanto.

After receiving a monastic education, he became retainer ( Dienstmann ) of a nobleman whose domain, Aue, has been identified with Obernau on the River Neckar.

He became a retainer of Villiers, and through the Duke's influence, Bolton secured a small place at the court of James I. Bolton married Margaret Porter, the sister of Endymion Porter, another of the Duke's retinue and a minor poet.

Their daughters married into prestigious families ; the eldest, Kō, married Maeda Nagatane, a distant relative of Toshiie who became a senior Kaga retainer ; Ma ' a, was a concubine of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, Gō was adopted by Hideyoshi and became the wife of Ukita Hideie, and Chise, who was first wedded to Hosokawa Tadaoki's son Tadataka, later married Murai Nagayori's son Nagatsugu.

Because of that, Naoyasu became a retainer of Maeda Toshinaga, and was given a stipend of 7, 000 koku.

Takaharu changed his family name to, and became a retainer of the Maeda family of Kaga.

Yoshihisa's monk name is Yurin ( 友林 ) and after Mōri Terumoto became the head of Mōri clan, he became a retainer under Terumoto.

Losing domains against Rokkaku clan, he instead became a Rokkaku retainer.

After the installation of Tokugawa Ieyasu in Edo, Kazusa became part of the Tokugawa clan holdings, and Tokugawa hereditary retainer Honda Tadakatsu was promoted to daimyō of Ōtaki Domain ( 50, 000 koku ).

William Bankes ( also spelled Banks or Banckes, and sometimes called Richard Bankes ) was born in Staffordshire, probably in the early 1560s, In the 1580s he became a retainer of Robert Devereux, the Earl of Essex ; his job may have been working in the stables.

He served as a retainer for the samurai Minamoto no Yorimitsu and became well known for his abilities as a warrior.

Terasawa Hirotaka, a retainer of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, became lord of Karatsu in 1595.

Henceforth, he became a retainer of Yoshitsune and fought with him in the Genpei War against the Taira clan.

He was considered an important retainer and became a Karō, a samurai official / adviser.

" Having concluded that Wollo was worth a mass ," as Harold Marcus wryly puts it, his retainer Ras Mohammed of Wollo became Ras ( later Negus ) Mikael of Wollo, and the Emperor stood as his godfather at his baptism.

" Xiutu's son was taken prisoner, but eventually became a favorite retainer of Emperor Wu and was granted the name Jin Midi, with his surname Jin 金 " gold " supposedly referring to the " golden man.

The second son of Okabe Chikatsuna, he became a senior retainer of the Imagawa, following in his father's footsteps.

He became a retainer of Miyoshi Nagayoshi, after he was defeated by him.

He became a retainer of Araki Murashige.

In 1566, he became a retainer of Nobunaga when Nobunaga attacked Mino Province.

In the Qi state, Sun Bin became a retainer ( guest ) in the residence of Tian Ji, a military general.

A retainer of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, he fought in the battle of Shizugatake in 1583, and soon became known as one of the shichi-hon-yari ( 七本槍 ), or Seven Spears of Shizugatake, Hideyoshi's seven most trusted and experienced generals.

A retainer of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, he fought in the battle of Shizugatake in 1583, and soon became known as one of Seven Spears of Shizugatake which also included Katō Kiyomasa and others.

Being an able retainer, he became known as the Samurai General Without Peer in the Western Provinces ( Saigoku-musō no Samuraidaishō ).

He became one of Nobunaga's sandal-bearers and was present at the Battle of Okehazama in 1560 when Nobunaga defeated Imagawa Yoshimoto to become one of the most powerful warlords in the Sengoku period.

In 1562, The Tokugawa clan who was adjacent to the east of Nobunaga's territory became independent of the Imagawa clan, and allied with Nobunaga.

The Board of Retainers ( samuraidokoro ) was also headed by a Senior Vassal Council member selected in the fourteenth century from among the Imagawa ( who became a council member a little later ), the Hosokawa, the Hatakeyama, the Shiba, and the Toki.

Also included were heirs to lords whose domains were confiscated ( for example, Asano Daigaku, the brother of Asano Naganori ), local power figures in remote parts of the country who never became daimyo ; and the families of Kamakura Period and Muromachi Period Shugo ( Governors ): some of these include the Akamatsu, Besshō ( branch of the Akamatsu ), Hōjō, Hatakeyama, Kanamori, Imagawa, Mogami, Nagai, Oda, Ōtomo, Takeda, Toki, Takenaka ( branch of the Toki ), Takigawa, Tsutsui, and Yamana families.

The Imagawa subsequently became masters of ceremonies in the service of the Tokugawa clan.

Imagawa Ryōshun became Chinzei Tandai ( head of the Dazaifu government ) soon afterwards, and the Imagawa clan became shugo of Tsushima.

When Imagawa Ryōshun was dismissed from his post in 1395, Sō Sumishige became shugo of Tsushima.

Some of his descendants ( known as the Kammu Taira or Kammu Heishi ) took the Taira hereditary clan title, and in later generations became prominent warriors.

These descriptors often developed into fixed clan identifications which in turn became family names as we know them today.

In time, Fujiwara became known as a clan name.

Fuhito had four sons ; and each of them became the progenator of a cadet branch of the clan:

The designation of individual clan tartans was largely defined in this period and became a major symbol of Scottish identity.

In the wake of the rebellion, the clan system was broken up and islands of the Hebrides became a series of landed estates.

In Scotland, the Jacobite cause became entangled in the last throes of the warrior clan system.

His descendants established themselves in the Iwami province as local administrators of Mino, and from the Kamakura period became part of the regional warrior caste under the name of the Masuda clan.

They quickly became the dominant Mongol clan in Outer Mongolia.

Hamid Karzai, a prominent figure from the Popalzai clan, became the president of Afghanistan and Zahir Shah's relatives and supporters were provided with key posts in the transitional government.

When the tribe adopted war captives, the children became part of their mother's clan and accepted in the tribe.

From approximately the 8th century A. D., adjacent village compounds called ile coalesced into numerous territorial city-states in which clan loyalties became subordinate to dynastic chieftains.

The Al Said clan became a royal dynasty when Ahmad ibn Said Al Said was elected imam following the expulsion of the Iranians from Muscat in 1744.

Though there were a number of battles between Ieyasu and the Oda clan, Ieyasu eventually switched sides and became one of Nobunaga's strongest allies.

Nobutada's son, Oda Hidenobu, became ruler of the Oda clan after the deaths of Nobunaga and Nobutada.

With the eventual demise of the clan systems in Scotland, these hunting dogs became sporting animals for landowners and the nobility, but were also bred and hunted by common folk when feasible.

He was a very successful leader, and the clan became richer under his leadership.

According to the Bible the first king, Saul, was a Gibeonite, a tribe with its roots in Edom, and in order to unify the new kingdom and cement his own authority Saul promoted his own god, Yahweh, as god of the kingdom ; previously, each extended family or clan was the " people " of a particular god, but now the entire Israelite community became the " people of Yahweh ".

According to Chinese legend, the Zhou lineage began with Emperor Ku and proceeded from him to Qi, Buku, Ju, and then Gongliu, before Gugong Danfu moved the Zhou clan from Bin ( 豳 or 邠 ) to an area in the Wei River valley, where they founded a town that became central to the Zhou clan's growing prosperity.

Erebor became the home of the Folk of Durin, a clan of Dwarves known as the Longbeards, after they were driven from their ancestral home of Khazad-dûm.

Defeating the Taira clan, Yoritomo became de facto ruler of much of Japan and founder of the Kamakura shogunate, an institution destined to last 141 years and to have immense repercussions over the country's history.

According to Mark Crispin Miller, Graceland became for Presley " the home of the organization that was himself, was tended by a large vague clan of Presleys and deputy Presleys, each squandering the vast gratuities which Elvis used to keep his whole world smiling.

The Morgan-Engels thesis that humanity's earliest domestic institution was not the family but the matrilineal clan soon became incorporated into communist orthodoxy.

With the area under McIntosh's control, it became known as Inverness after the McIntosh clan home in Scotland.

For example, King Muryeong of Baekje was born in kyushu ( 筑紫 ) of Japan as a child of hostage in 462, and left a son in Japan who settled there and became an ancestor of the clan of minor nobility.