{{Short description|Japanese samurai kin group}} {{family name hatnote|Yasuda|lang=Japanese}} The '''Yasuda clan''' was a Japanese samurai kin group in the Sengoku period and Edo period.<ref name="morikawa61">Morikawa, Hidemasa. (2001). [https://books.google.com/books?id=pCMHQSfAPt4C&pg=PA61 ''A History of Top Management in Japan: Managerial Enterprises and Family Enterprises,'' p. 61].</ref>
==History== The clan was established by Ōe no Hiromoto.{{citation needed|date=May 2013}}
In the Sengoku period, a branch of the Yasuda clan was made responsible for the collection of duties on the cloth trade.<ref>Goldsmith, Brian. (2008). [https://books.google.com/books?id=eOiRmUmQGbYC&dq=yasuda+clan&pg=PA262 ''Amassing Economies: The Medieval Origins of Early Modern Japan, 1450-1700,'' p. 262].</ref>
In modern history, the Yasuda are known as a "financial clan" because of their success in banking.<ref>Lonien, Claude. (2003). [https://books.google.com/books?id=RbT3CC4X-BcC&pg=PA44 ''The Japanese Economic and Social System: From a Rocky Past to an Uncertain Future,'' p. 44].</ref>
==Notable clan leaders == {{dynamic list}} * Yasuda Zenjiro<ref name="morikawa61"/> * Hajime Yasuda<ref>Sumiya, Mikio. (2000). [https://books.google.com/books?id=mVN_OTa_KCYC&pg=PA157 ''A History of Japanese Trade and Industry Policy,'' p. 157].</ref>
==See also== * Yasuda zaibatsu * Yoko Ono * Paul Hisao Yasuda
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