Ebina Suekane - Ebina Suekane

…A medieval samurai family whose main territory was Ebina-go, Takatsu County, Sagami Province. It is said that the family began when Suekane, a descendant of the Yokoyama clan of the Seven Musashi clans, was adopted by Sagami no Kami Minamoto no Arikane (alternative theory: Chikasue), lived in this area, and took the name Ebina. The family's name already appears in the Tale of the Hogen era, and after becoming Kamakura Gokenin, they acquired land in various places and developed. Like other clans of the Yokoyama clan, they lost many of their family members in the Wada War in 1213 (Kenpo 1), but their descendants who moved to land in the west prospered. One of them, who inherited the name of the Yano Manor in Harima Province and the Nawaura Jito position, also known as the Goshi position, noticed that the rule of the manor lord was weak from the end of the Kamakura period to the Nanboku-cho period, and rebelled against the manor lord together with the Terada clan, who were descended from the manor's development lord, and were labeled as villains. …

*Some of the terminology that mentions "Ebina Tokikane" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

…相模国高座郡海老名郷を本領とする中世の武家。武蔵七党横山党の流れをくむ季兼が，相模守源有兼(異説親季)の養子となってこの地に住み，海老名を称したのに始まるという。一族の名はすでに《保元物語》などにもみえ，鎌倉御家人となってからは各地に所領を得て発展する。横山党の他の諸氏と同じように，1213年(建保1)の和田合戦で一族の多くを失うが，西国の所領に下った子孫は繁栄している。そのうち播磨国矢野荘例名･那波浦地頭職，別名下司職などを相伝した一族は，鎌倉時代末～南北朝時代にかけて，荘園領主の支配が弱体であることに目をつけ，同荘の開発領主の系譜をひく寺田氏らとともに荘園領主に反抗し，悪党人のレッテルをはられた。…

※「海老名季兼」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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