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Shirakawa family also known as the Shirakawa Hakuo family was a Japanese family associated with Shinto. Often compared to the Yoshida family [ja; en; simple; fr]. They founded Shirakawa Shinto[1].

They are a branch of the Minamoto clan

They claimed succession to Department of Divinities and were involved with Imperial Court Rituals[1]. They took this role from the Fujiwara clan [en] and dominated the department of divinities until the Yoshida family [ja; en; simple; fr] became their rival.[2]

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  1. 1.0 1.1 "Shirakawa Shinto". WaonEnergy. Retrieved 2023-05-17.
  2. Hardacre, Helen (2017). Shinto: A History. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-062171-1.