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The Matsumae clan was a branch of the Japanese clan of Takeda. The Matsumae mainly thrived during the Sengoku Period of the 16th century. This was due to the fact that they unified Hokkaido's Oshima Peninsula. Following the Azuchi-Momoyama period of the 17th century, the Matsumae submitted to Toyotomi Hideyoshi. The Matsumae were later confirmed in their holdings by the likes of Tokugawa Ieyasu. Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Matsumae was the name of a town in Hokkaido, Japan, near the port of Hakodate. ... This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... The Sengoku period (Japanese: 戦国時代, Sengoku-jidai) or Warring States period, was a period of civil war in the history of Japan that spans from the middle 15th to the early 17th centuries. ... For the dog breed, see Hokkaido (dog). ... The Oshima Peninsula is the southernmost part of Hokkaido, the most northerly of the Japanese islands, encompassing the subprefectures of Oshima and Hiyama. ... The Azuchi-Momoyama period (Japanese: 安土桃山時代, Azuchi-Momoyama-jidai) is a division of Japanese history running from approximately 1568 to 1600. ... Hideyoshi in old age. ... Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu Tokugawa Ieyasu (previously spelled Iyeyasu); 徳川 家康 (January 31, 1543 – June 1, 1616) was the founder and first shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan which ruled from the Battle of Sekigahara in 1600 until the Meiji Restoration in 1868. ...