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| | ==Prominent Members of the Matsura House== | | ==Prominent Members of the Matsura House== |
| − | *[[Minamoto no Hisashi|Matsura Hisashi]] 久 - 8th head of the house; first to hold the surname Matsura | + | *[[Minamoto no Hisashi|Matsura Hisashi]] 久 - 8th head of the house;<ref>The counting for the medieval Matsura house counts Minamoto no Tôru as the 1st head of the house and Watanabe no Tsuna as the 5th.</ref> first to hold the surname Matsura |
| | **[[Matsura Naoshi]] 直 (aka Yasushi 安) - 9th head of the house; second son of Hisashi | | **[[Matsura Naoshi]] 直 (aka Yasushi 安) - 9th head of the house; second son of Hisashi |
| | ***[[Matsura Minehira]] 峯披 - 10th head of the house; son of Naoshi | | ***[[Matsura Minehira]] 峯披 - 10th head of the house; son of Naoshi |
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| | ***********************[[Matsura Hikaru]] 晧 - son of Kiyoshi | | ***********************[[Matsura Hikaru]] 晧 - son of Kiyoshi |
| | ***********************[[Matsura Hiromu]] 熈 - 10th lord of Hirado han; son of Kiyoshi | | ***********************[[Matsura Hiromu]] 熈 - 10th lord of Hirado han; son of Kiyoshi |
| − | ************************ | + | ************************[[Matsura Terasu]] 曜 - 11th lord of Hirado han; son of Hiromu |
| | + | *************************[[Matsura Akira (1840-1908)]] 詮 - 12th & final lord of Hirado han; adoptive son of Terasu |
| | + | **************************[[Matsura Atsushi]] 厚 - 13th head of the house<ref name=meijicount>The [[Meiji period]] counting of the heads of the house counts back to Matsura Shigenobu (Hôin), first [[Edo period]] lord of Hirado han as "first" head of the house.</ref>; son of Akira |
| | + | ***************************[[Matsura Susumu]] 陞 - 14th head of the house;<ref name=meijicount/> son of Atsushi |
| | + | ****************************[[Matsura So]] 素 - 15th head of the house;<ref name=meijicount/> son of Susumu |
| | + | *****************************[[Matsura Akira (b. 1947)]] 章 - 16th head of the house; <ref name=meijicount/> son of So |
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| | ==References== | | ==References== |