Japanese Family Crests (Kamon)
A kamon is the emblem of a Japanese family. Samurai families put theirs on banners, roof tiles and armour, so the same design often marks the castle a family held.
This page lists 26 crests that Wikidata records for families connected to 33 of the castles in this database. Every crest links to the castle pages of the families that used it. Where a family held more than one castle, all of them are listed.
Crest images come from Wikimedia Commons; the licence and author are shown under each one. The family-to-castle links come from Wikidata, retrieved 2026-08-22. A family missing from this page means Wikidata holds no crest image for it — not that the family had no crest.
Mitsuba Aoi (hollyhock)
Tokugawa Ieyasu; Tokugawa clan
Edo Castle · Nagoya Castle · Shingu Castle · Sunpu Castle
Hyakurakuto / CC BY-SA 3.0 — Commons
Ashikaga Futatsu-hikiryō
Hatakeyama clan; Imagawa clan
Hamamatsu Castle · Kokokuji Castle · Nanao Castle
Ash Crow / CC BY 2.5 — Commons
Uesugi Sasa (bamboo)
Uesugi clan
Aizuwakamatsu Castle · Minowa Castle
Mukai / CC BY-SA 3.0 — Commons
Kuyō Tomoe
Nagao clan
File created on Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop by: WTCA / CC BY-SA 3.0 — Commons
Mitsumori Kikkō ni Hanabishi
Nikaidō clan
No machine-readable author provided. Wikiwikiyarou assumed (based on copyright claims). / CC BY-SA 3.0 — Commons
