Kunitomo ASHIKAGA, the grandson of Yoshiaki, was allowed by Hideyoshi TOYOTOMI, who united and ruled Japan after the collapse of the Muromachi Shogunate, to restore the Ashikaga clan, was granted a fief in Kitsuregawa in the Province of Shimotsuke and assumed the name of the Kitsuregawa clan.
しかし義明の孫・足利国朝は室町幕府滅亡後、天下人となった豊臣秀吉に足利氏再興を許され、下野国喜連川に領地を与えられて喜連川氏を称した。