The clan played a central part in uprisings of the followers of the Ikko sect in the Sengoku period (Period of Warring States, Japan), and later, in the Edo period, Shigetoshi IKEDA from the clan produced some achievements, he was given rice stipend of 10,000 koku (1,803,900 cubic decimeters) and became daimyo (Japanese territorial lord).
戦国時代(日本)には一向一揆において中心的役割を果たし、さらに降って江戸時代には一族から池田重利が出て一万石を領し、大名に列した。