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[[Image:Miura_mon.jpg|left|thumb|The Miura kamon.]]

The Miura of [[Sagami Province]] were descended from [[Miura Yoshiaki]] (d. [[1181]]), who was himself descended from [[Miura Takemichi]] (who claimed [[Taira clan|Taira]] ancestry). The Miura, while vice-governors of Sagami Province for the Taira, supported [[Minamoto no Yoritomo]] in the [[1180]]-[[1185]] [[Gempei War]] and afterwards enjoyed considerable influence. Perhaps for fear of their strong position, the [[Hojo clan (Pre-Sengoku Regents)|Hôjô]] regent [[Hojo Tokiyori|Tokiyori]] almost wiped out the line when [[Miura Yasumura]], along with roughly 500 other members of the clan, committed suicide following their defeat at Tokiyori's hands in [[1246]]. A ''[[yagura]]'', or gravesite, for these fallen members of the clan can be found in [[Kamakura]], a few hundred yards from the grave of Yoritomo.

A minor branch existed into the early Sengoku Period, only to fall to the [[Go-Hojo clan|Go-Hôjô]] in [[1516]].

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