Kira clan

The Kira clan was a Japanese clan, descended from Emperor Seiwa (850-880), and was a cadet branch of the Ashikaga family from the Minamoto clan (Seiwa Genji).

Ashikaga Mitsuuji, grandson of Ashikaga Yoshiuji (1189-1254) was the first to take the name of Kira.

Kira Mitsusada sided first with his relative Ashikaga Takauji (1305-1358), the first Ashikaga Shogun, then passed over to the Southern Dynasty. He was defeated by Hatakeyama Kunikiyo (1360) and submitted to the Ashikaga shoguns.

In fact, the Kira, from Mikawa province, were a minor branch of the Minamoto clan, as they never had the rank of Shugo (governor) of any province during the Kamakura period until the Sengoku period, they never possessed important domains and never represented a real power, in comparison with other great Seiwa Genji families.

During the Tokugawa period, they were among the koke, a ranking below Daimyo. The Kira are famous for Kira Yoshinaka and the Forty-seven Ronin vendetta.

Kira

Kira may refer to:

People

List of Mortal Kombat characters

This is a list of playable characters from the Mortal Kombat fighting game series and the games in which they appear. The series takes place in a fictional universe composed of six realms, which were created by the Elder Gods. The Elder Gods created a fighting tournament called Mortal Kombat to reduce the wars between the realms. The first Mortal Kombat game introduces a tournament in which Earthrealm can be destroyed if it loses once again.

The Earthrealm warriors manage to defeat the champion Goro and tournament host Shang Tsung, but this leads Tsung to search for other ways to destroy Earthrealm. Since then, every game features a new mortal who wishes to conquer the realms, therefore violating the rules of Mortal Kombat. By Mortal Kombat: Deception, most of the main characters had been killed by Shang Tsung and Quan Chi (neither of whom were playable in the game), but by Mortal Kombat: Armageddon all of them return.

Character overview

Appearances in the fighting games in the series:

Kira (Bhutan)

The kira (Dzongkha: དཀྱི་ར་, དཀྱིས་རས་; Wylie: dkyi-ra, dkyis-ras) is the national dress for women in Bhutan. It is an ankle-length dress consisting of a rectangular piece of woven fabric. It is wrapped and folded around the body and is pinned at both shoulders, usually with silver brooches, and bound at the waist with a long belt. The kira is usually worn with a wonju (long-sleeved blouse) inside and a short jacket or toego (Dzongkha: སྟོད་གོ་; Wylie: stod-go) outside.

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