Hosokawa clan

Hosokawa
細川
Hosokawa; 細川
	The emblem (mon) of the Hosokawa clan
Home province	Various
Parent house	Minamoto clan; Ashikaga clan
Titles	Various
Founder	Ashikaga Yoshisue
Current head	Morihiro Hosokawa
Dissolution	still extant
Ruled until	1947, Constitution of Japan renders titles obsolete
Cadet branches	Nagaoka clan; Kumamoto; Kumamoto-Shinden; Udo; Hitachi-Yatabe; Saikyu clan

The Hosokawa clan (細川氏, Hosokawa-shi) is a Japanese samurai kin group or clan.^[1] The clan descends from the Seiwa Genji, a branch of the Minamoto clan, and ultimately from Emperor Seiwa, through the Ashikaga clan.^[2] It produced many prominent officials in the Ashikaga shogunate's administration. In the Edo period, the clan was one of the largest landholding daimyo families in Japan. The current clan head Morihiro Hosokawa served as Prime Minister of Japan.

^ 細川氏 at Nihon jinmei daijiten; retrieved 2013-5-29.
^ Berry, M.E. (1997). The Culture of Civil War in Kyoto, p.45. University of California Press.

Hosokawa 細川
The emblem (mon) of the Hosokawa clan
Home province	Various
Parent house	Minamoto clan Ashikaga clan
Titles	Various
Founder	Ashikaga Yoshisue
Current head	Morihiro Hosokawa
Dissolution	still extant
Ruled until	1947, Constitution of Japan renders titles obsolete
Cadet branches	Nagaoka clan Kumamoto Kumamoto-Shinden Udo Hitachi-Yatabe Saikyu clan