Kajiki clan

Japanese: 加治木氏 - かじきうじ

A powerful clan in Osumi Province from the end of the Heian period to the end of the Muromachi period. Kajiki-go County Governor. A vassal of the Kamakura Shogunate. Surnamed Okura. The 1197 (8th Kenkyu) map shows Kajiki-go, Shomiya Shin-goryo, 106 cho 2.5 dan of public land for eiyaku, and County Governor Okura Yoshihira's wife as his fief, and the following year's list of Osumi Province vassals lists Kajiki-go County Governor Yoshihira as the country's governor. Yoshihira was also known as Chikahira, and according to an old family tree, the first Yoshihira was Tsuneyoshi, born to the wife of the wife of Hikiyama, the widow of the Okura clan, and the exiled aristocrat Fujiwara Tsunehira. His grandson was Osumi Daijo Yorimitsu, and Chikahira was his great-great-grandson. In addition to his position as County Governor, he was also one of the shrine priests who inherited the position of Shohachimangu Shrine's horse station inspector.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

平安末期～室町末期の大隅国の豪族。加治木郷郡司。鎌倉幕府御家人。大蔵姓。1197年(建久8)の図田帳に加治木郷，正宮新御領，公田永用106丁2段半，郡司大蔵吉平妻所知とあり，翌年の大隅国御家人交名に国方として加治木郡司吉平の名がみえる。吉平は親平ともあり，古系図によれば，大蔵氏後家肥喜山女房，流人貴族藤原経平との間に所生の経頼を初代とする。その孫は大隅大掾頼光とあり，親平はその玄孫に当たる。郡司職とともに正八幡宮御馬所検校職を世襲する社司の一人でもあった。

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