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The Saitō clan (Japanese: 斎藤氏, Hepburn: Saitō-shi) was a Japanese samurai clan that ruled Mino province in the Sengoku period. The clan appropriated the name of a defunct samurai clan named "Saitō" that had previously hailed from Echizen province and claimed descent from , of the Hokke branch of the Fujiwara clan.