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The Kitsuregawa clan were an [[Edo period]] ''daimyô'' family who traced their descent from the [[Ashikaga clan]] ''[[Koga kubo|Koga kubô]]'', or the [[Ashikaga shogunate|Ashikaga shoguns]].<ref name=yamamoto>Yamamoto Hirofumi, ''Edo jidai - Shôgun bushi tachi no jitsuzô'', Tôkyô shoseki (2008), 69.</ref>
The Kitsuregawa clan were an [[Edo period]] ''daimyô'' family who traced their descent from the [[Ashikaga clan]] ''[[Koga kubo|Koga kubô]]'', or the [[Ashikaga shogunate|Ashikaga shoguns]].<ref name=yamamoto>Yamamoto Hirofumi, ''Edo jidai - Shôgun bushi tachi no jitsuzô'', Tôkyô shoseki (2008), 69.</ref>
The family name was first established during the time of [[Toyotomi Hideyoshi]], when [[Ashikaga Kunitomo]], the grandson of Oyumi Kubô [[Ashikaga Yoshiaki (Oyumi Kubo)|Ashikaga Yoshiaki]], succeeded [[Ashikaga Yoshiuji]] as ''koga kubô''. Hideyoshi transferred him to a domain at Kitsuregawa, in Shioya district, [[Shimotsuke province]], and the lineage came to be known as the Kitsuregawa.
The family name was first established during the time of [[Toyotomi Hideyoshi]], when [[Ashikaga Kunitomo]], the grandson of Oyumi Kubô [[Ashikaga Yoshiaki (Oyumi Kubo)|Ashikaga Yoshiaki]], succeeded [[Ashikaga Yoshiuji]] as ''koga kubô''. Hideyoshi transferred him to a domain at [[Kitsuregawa han|Kitsuregawa]], in Shioya district, [[Shimotsuke province]], and the lineage came to be known as the Kitsuregawa.
Kunitomo was married to [[Ashikaga Ujinohime]] in [[1591]], but died of illness in [[Aki province]] on his way to [[Kyushu]] to participate in Hideyoshi's [[Korean Invasions|invasions of Korea]]. Ujinohime was then encouraged by Hideyoshi to marry Kunitomo's younger brother [[Ashikaga Yoriuji]], who later became known as Kitsuregawa Yoriuji. They had a son, [[Kitsuregawa Yoshichika]].
Kunitomo was married to [[Ashikaga Ujinohime]] in [[1591]], but died of illness in [[Aki province]] on his way to [[Kyushu]] to participate in Hideyoshi's [[Korean Invasions|invasions of Korea]]. Ujinohime was then encouraged by Hideyoshi to marry Kunitomo's younger brother [[Ashikaga Yoriuji]], who later became known as Kitsuregawa Yoriuji. They had a son, [[Kitsuregawa Yoshichika]].