Powerful family - Kenmon Seika

Japanese: 権門勢家 - けんもんせいか

It means a powerful family or lineage. It can also be read as "kenmon seike." In Japanese history, the usage of "kenmon," "gonki," "tasenoke," etc. increased from around the end of the 9th century during the Heian period, and all of them refer to the families of the nobility and vassals of various temples and palaces, and those of fifth rank or higher. In the late Heian period, even the Fujiwara clan was differentiated into powerful and humble families according to their family status and rank. The regents and influential temples and shrines, who received manors with donated land, also played a part in the powerful families, and in the Middle Ages, the samurai became the new powerful families. → Powerful family system → Related topics Ho

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Japanese:

権勢のある門閥や家柄の意。〈けんもんせいけ〉とも読む。日本史上では，平安時代９世紀末頃から〈権門〉〈権貴〉〈多勢之家〉などの用例が増加し，いずれも諸院諸宮王臣家，五位以上をさす。平安後期，藤原氏でも門地・家格の高下によって権門と寒門に分化。寄進地型荘園の被寄者となった摂関(せっかん)家，有力寺社も権門勢家の一翼を担い，中世では武家が新たな権門となった。→権門体制
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