Gojo clan

Japanese: 五条氏 - ごじょううじ

A powerful clan in Kyushu that flourished after the end of the Kamakura period. A branch of the Kiyohara clan. Its ancestor was Yorimoto, the second son of Kiyohara Yoshie. Yorimoto served as Daigaiki, Vice Minister of Mints, Yorimoto of the Record Office, Vice Minister of Kaneyu, etc. During the turbulent period of the Northern and Southern Courts, he became a key advisor for Emperor Go-Daigo, and accompanied the young Seisei Shogun Prince Kanenaga (son of Emperor Go-Daigo) when he traveled to Kyushu along with his sons Yoshiuji and Yoshito, and teamed up with Kyushu's largest anti-shogunate force, Higo no Kami Kikuchi Takemitsu, ushering in the rise of the Seiseifu. After Yorimoto's death, his descendants successively belonged to the Kikuchi clan as small powerful clans in the mountains of Yabe, Chikugo Province (present-day Obuchi, Kurogi-cho, Yame-gun, Fukuoka Prefecture), and plotted the restoration of the Southern Court.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

鎌倉末期以降栄えた九州の豪族。清原氏の支流。清原良枝の次男頼元を祖とする。頼元は，大外記，鋳銭司次官，記録所寄人，勘解由次官等を歴任。彼は，南北朝動乱期に入り，後醍醐天皇の有力ブレーンとなり，幼少の征西将軍宮懐良親王(後醍醐天皇の皇子)の九州下向に際して子息良氏，良遠とともに随従，九州最大の反幕府勢力肥後守菊池武光と組んで，征西府の隆盛を迎える。頼元の死後，子孫あいついで筑後国矢部の山中(現，福岡県八女郡黒木町大淵)で小豪族として菊池氏に属し，南朝の再興を画策したりした。

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