Nakatomi clan (中臣氏, Nakatomi-uji) was a Japanese aristocratic kin group (uji). The clan claims descent from Amenokoyane. The Nakatomi was an influential...

Nakatomi may refer to: Nakatomi clan, an influential clan in ancient Japan Die Hard: Nakatomi Plaza, a first-person shooter video game Nakatomi Corporation...

styling themselves "sovereigns". In response, the leader of the Nakatomi clan, Nakatomi no Kamatari (later known as the founder of the Fujiwara and traditionally...

The Fujiwara clan (藤原氏, Fujiwara-shi or Fujiwara-uji) was a powerful family of imperial regents in Japan, descending from the Nakatomi clan and, as legend...

Taishōkan from Emperor Tenji, thus establishing the Fujiwara clan. Kamatari was born to the Nakatomi clan, an aristocratic kin group claiming descent from their...

great-grandfather of Emperor Jimmu; famous for Mononobe no Moriya. Nakatomi clan (中臣氏) – descended from the kami Ame no Koyane no Mikoto (legendary)...

Inbe in Kashihara, Nara. They led the various clans in the region, and together with the Nakatomi clan, administered rituals for the Imperial Court since...

result of feelings of conservatism and a degree of xenophobia. The Nakatomi clan, ancestors of the Fujiwara, were also Shinto ritualists allied with...

unknown name unknown Unakami no Sukune (菟上足尼) Kofun period Soga clan Nakatomi clan Mononobe clan Papinot, Jacques Edmond Joseph. (1906). Dictionnaire d’histoire...

understood to be part of Japanese clans. For example, the Nakatomi clan and the Fujiwara clan were each uji. The uji was not only a social, economic and...