Edo Michitaka

...A medieval samurai family active in Musashi and Hitachi. (1) A samurai family whose main territory was Edo-go, Toyoshima-gun, Musashi Province. It began when Shigetsugu, a descendant of the Kanmu-Heishi Chichibu clan, lived in Edo and called his name Edo. A powerful family in the southwestern part of Musashi Province, Shigetsugu's son Shigenaga was highly valued after joining the forces of Minamoto no Yoritomo, and Shigenaga was entrusted with commanding the Musashi provincial government office. After the fall of the Hatakeyama clan, it became the leading samurai family in Musashi Province, and its direct descendants divided their territories into various parts of Musashi Province and became independent, while Shigemochi went down to Yasuda-sho in Izumo Province as a lord of the Jokyu Shinpo estate. After that, around the time of the fall of the shogunate, it followed the Ashikaga clan, and then came under the control of the Kanto kubo, but in 1368 (Shohei 23 | Oan 1), it was punished for participating in the Hei-Ikki Rebellion, and the head family fell into decline. ...

*Some of the terminology used in reference to "Edo Tsutsuko" is listed below.

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…武蔵，常陸で活躍した中世の武家。(1)武蔵国豊嶋郡江戸郷を本領とする武家。桓武平氏秩父氏の流れをくみ重継が江戸に住して江戸を称したのに始まる。武蔵国南西部の雄族で，重継の子重長が源頼朝の麾下（きか）に参じてから重用され，重長は武蔵国衙の指揮を任されている。畠山氏が滅んだ後は武蔵国随一の武家となり，嫡庶流が武蔵国各地に分領して自立したほか，承久新補の地頭として重持が出雲国安田荘に下向している。その後，幕府滅亡に前後して足利氏に従い，さらに関東公方の支配下に入ったが，1368年(正平23∥応安1)の平一揆の乱に参加して処罰をうけ，惣領家は没落する。…

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