Adachi Tokuro

...A military commander in the early Kamakura period. He may have been a member of the Adachi clan, a powerful clan in Musashi Province. According to the Sonpi Bunmyaku, he was the son of Onoda Saburo Kanemori, who had the surname Fujiwara. His name was Fujikuro. He was the son-in-law of Minamoto no Yoritomo's wet nurse, Hiki no Ama, and became a close aide to Yoritomo when he was exiled. When Yoritomo raised an army in 1180 (Jisho 4), he was effective in inviting hereditary members of the Minamoto clan. He was trusted by Yoritomo, and from around the Genryaku period, he was in charge of tax collection on the domestic public lands as the magistrate of Kozuke Province, in place of the provincial government office. He did not take part in the pursuit of the Taira clan, but instead seems to have been mainly involved in laying the foundations for the shogunate in the eastern provinces. ...

*Some of the terminology that refers to "Adachi Tokuro" is listed below.

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…鎌倉前期の武将。武蔵国の豪族足立氏の一族か。《尊卑分脈》によれば藤原姓小野田三郎兼盛の子。藤九郎と称す。源頼朝の乳母比企尼の女婿で頼朝の流人時代より彼の側近となる。1180年(治承4)の頼朝挙兵の際には源家譜代家人の招致に力があった。頼朝の信任をうけ，元暦ごろから上野国奉行人として国衙在庁に代わって国内公領の収税事務を管轄し，平氏追討には従軍せずもっぱら東国において幕府の基盤整備を行ったようである。…

※「安達藤九郎」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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