The Oda clan is a branch lineage of the Echizen-Inbe clan, a Shinto priest family of Tsurugi-jinja Shrine, (or of Echizen-Fujiwara clan according to another opinion), but they later misrepresented their lineage as having been descended from the Kanmu-Heisi (the Taira clan).
織田氏は劔神社の神官である越前忌部（斎部）氏の支流（あるいは越前藤原氏とも）であるが、後に桓武平氏の系統と仮冒した。