{{Short description|Japanese clan}} {{Family name hatnote|Aoki|lang=Japanese}}{{Expand Japanese|date=November 2024}}{{Infobox Japanese clan |surname = Aoki |surname nihongo = 青木 |image = 200px |image size = 332px |image caption = The emblem (''mon'') of the Aoki clan |home province =Musashi |parent house = |titles = |founder = |final ruler =Aoki Shigeyoshi |current head =Aoki Jun’ichi |founding year = |dissolution =still extant |ruled until =1871 (abolition of the han system) }} The first who used Aoki name was Aoki Shigenao (1529–1614).<ref name=":0">{{Cite thesis |last=Erdmann |first=Mark Karl |title=Azuchi Castle: Architectural Innovation and Political Legitimacy in Sixteenth-Century Japan |date=2013 |access-date=9 November 2024 |degree=PhD |publisher=Harvard University |url=https://dash.harvard.edu/handle/1/33493525 |pages=30–31}}</ref> Aoki Shigenao was a vassal to one of Oda Nobunaga's principal advisors, Niwa Nagahide.<ref name=":0" />
During the Sengoku period, the Aoki clan served Toyotomi clan later after the death of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, they served Tokugawa Shogunate and ruled Asada Domain, 12.000 ''koku''.
==Heads of family== # Aoki Kazushige (1551–1628),<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4UkhAAAAQBAJ |title=Japanese Biographical Index |date=2013-02-06 |publisher=Walter de Gruyter |isbn=978-3-11-094798-4 |pages=25 |language=en}}</ref> son of Shigenao # Aoki Shigekane (1607–1682) # Aoki Shigemasa (1625–1693) # Aoki Shigenori (1665–1729) # Aoki Kazutsune (1697–1736) # Aoki Kazukuni (1721–1749) # Aoki Chikatsune # Aoki Kazuyoshi (1728–1781) # Aoki Kazutsura (1734–1786) # Aoki Kazusada (1776–1831) # Aoki Shigetatsu (1800–1858) # Aoki Kazuoki # Aoki Kazuhiro (1828–1856) # Aoki Shigeyoshi (1853–1884) # Aoki Nobumitsu (1869–1949) # Aoki Nobutake # Aoki Jun’ichi (b.1935) # Aoki Mugen (2009)
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