Urabe Kanenobu - Urabe Kanenobu

Japanese: 卜部兼延 - うらべのかねのぶ

Years of birth: Dates of birth and death unknown. A shrine official in the mid-Heian period, he built the foundation for the development of the Yoshida family, which later became the head family of Yuitsu Shinto. According to the "Urabe Genealogy," he was the grandson of Toyomune, the shrine official of the Jingikan, who was the son of Hiramaro, who is said to have split off from the Fujiwara clan and was the ancestor of the Urabe clan. In 949 (Tenryaku 3), he inherited the position of Hirano Shrine Chief from his father Yoshimasa, and at the same time, from the Urabe clan belonging to the Jingikan, he served as Chugu Shrine Chief, Togu Shrine Chief, and then Omiyasu for the second emperor, Enyu, and Ichijo. In 1001 (Chōhō 3), he became the deputy shrine official of the Jingikan, starting the custom of the descendants of the family progressing to the position of deputy shrine official of the Jingikan. He is sometimes called Yoshida Kanenobu, but at the time he was Hirano Shrine Chief, and the Yoshida Shrine Chief came about during the Kamakura period. The use of the shrine name Yoshida as a family name began during the Muromachi period. Kanenobu was also believed by the late Muromachi period Shintoist Yoshida Kanetomo to be the author of the Yuitsu Shinto Myohyoshu (the central document of Yuitsu Shinto).

(Yoshitaro Hakusan)

Source: Asahi Japanese Historical Biography: Asahi Shimbun Publications Inc. About Asahi Japanese Historical Biography

Japanese:

生年：生没年不詳
平安中期の祠官で,のちの唯一神道の宗家・吉田家の発展の基礎を築いた。「卜部系図」によると,藤原氏から分かれ卜部の氏祖とされる平麻呂の子である神祇官宮主豊宗の孫。天暦3(949)年,平野社預を父好真から継承,それとともに神祇官に属する卜部から,中宮宮主,東宮宮主,さらに円融,一条2代天皇の大宮主を歴任した。長保3(1001)年に神祇大副となり,同家子孫が神祇官の次官に進む慣例を開いた。吉田兼延と称する場合があるが,当時は平野社預で,吉田社預が出るのは鎌倉期。吉田という社名を家名に用いるのは室町期。なお,兼延は室町後期の神道家・吉田兼倶によって『唯一神道名法要集』(唯一神道の中心的文献)の著者に擬せられた。

(白山芳太郎)

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