Among its branch families was the Mikawa-Yamamoto clan that had served the Imagawa clan during the Sengoku Period (period of warring states), calling themselves the descendants of the Yoshino clan, a member family of the Kida clan.
庶流としては、戦国時代(日本)に今川氏に仕えた三河山本氏が木田氏の一族吉野氏の後裔を称した。