At the disturbance in the period of the Northern and Southern Courts (Japan), the Hosokawa clan actively involved as a family of the Ashikaga Shogunal family, and took the side of Muromachi bakufu (Japanese feudal government headed by a shogun) of the Northern Court (Japan).
南北朝時代(日本)の動乱では、足利将軍家の一門として、北朝(日本)・室町幕府方として活躍した。