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The Miura family (三浦氏, Miura-shi^?) was one of the branch families descended from the Taira clan. They held large fiefs, and great political influence. They were one of the primary opponents of the Hōjō family of regents, in the mid-13th century, and again at the beginning of the 16th. It remains a common family name in Japan today.

Members of the Miura Clan:

• Miura Yasumura - member of Council of State, and signer of Jōei Formulary
• Miura Yoshiaki - grandfather to Minamoto no Yoshihira
• Miura Yoshizumi - am ally to Minamoto no Yoshitsune at the Battle of Dan-no-ura, 1185
• Miura Yoshimura - a Minamoto ally during the Jōkyū War of 1221
• Miura Dosun Yoshiatsu (d. 1516)
• Miura Yoshimoto (d. 1518) - son of Miura Dosun Yoshiatsu

'Miura' was also the family name given to English sailor William Adams, who became shipwrecked in Japan in the year 1600.

[edit] See also

• Japanese clans
• Miura Peninsula

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