Kamitsuma clan

Japanese: 上妻氏 - かみづまうじ

Also read as "Kozuma." A samurai family in the Chikugo region in the Middle Ages. They are said to be related to the Takagi and Kusano families. According to legend, the family began when Takamune, a descendant of Fujiwara Michitaka, lived in Kamitsuma County, Chikugo as the governor of Chikugo, but the exact date is that in the early Kamakura period, Kamitsuma Iemune was given the position of land steward in Kamitsuma Manor and Setaka Shimo Manor by the shogunate. Like the Kusano family, this was likely due to his meritorious service in not siding with the Taira clan. After that, he played an active role as a vassal of the Kamakura shogunate, but at the time of the overthrow of the shogunate, only the activities of Miyano Kyoshin, a land steward in Kamitsuma Manor, are known, and the activities of his direct descendants are unknown.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

〈こうづま〉とも読む。中世，筑後の武家。高木氏，草野氏とも同族という。伝承では藤原道隆の子孫隆宗が筑後守として筑後上妻郡に居したのに始まるというが，正確な事跡は鎌倉初期に上妻家宗が幕府より上妻荘･瀬高下荘内の地頭職を与えられた，というのに始まる。草野氏と同じく平家に与同しなかった功によるものであろう。その後鎌倉御家人として活躍するが，倒幕時には上妻荘の一分地頭宮野教心の活動が知られるのみで嫡系の活動については不明である。

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