The Asakura clan (朝倉氏, Asakura-shi) is a Japanese samurai kin group.

[1] The clan claims descent from Prince Kusakabe (662–689), who was the son of Emperor Tenmu (631–686).

[1] The family was a line of daimyō (feudal lords) who, along with the Azai clan, opposed Oda Nobunaga in the late 16th century.

Nobunaga defeated the Asakura at the Battle of Anegawa in 1570; the family's home castle of Ichijōdani was taken in 1573.

In 1632, he was implicated in a plot, causing him to be dispossessed and banished to Koriyama, where he died.