Mr. Samejima - Mr. Samejima

Japanese: 鮫島氏 - さめじまうじ

A medieval samurai family in Suruga and Satsuma. Also written as "Samejima." It is said to have originated from Samejima in Fuji County, Suruga Province, descended from the Kanmu Heishi clan. In the early Kamakura period, the head of the Shiro family was given the position of land steward of Ata County in Satsuma Province by Minamoto no Yoritomo and moved there, which is how the Satsuma Samejima clan began. One theory is that they were of the same family as the Ata clan of Satsuma, but this is unclear. Since the head family's Ata land stewardship was established on the site of the Ata clan's territory, which had been confiscated after siding with the Heike clan, it is thought that a theory was born in later times that the two families were of the same family. After the head family, the Ata land stewardship was divided into a northern and southern part, and it seems that the northern part was inherited by the legitimate son Ietaka, and the southern part by his illegitimate son Munekage.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

駿河，薩摩の中世武家。〈佐女島〉とも書く。桓武平氏の出で，駿河国富士郡鮫島より起こるという。鎌倉初期，四郎宗家が源頼朝より薩摩国阿多郡の地頭職を与えられて下向したのが薩摩鮫島氏の始まり。一説では薩摩の阿多氏と同族というが不明。宗家の阿多地頭職が，平家に味方して没官された阿多氏の所領跡に置かれたものであることから，後世両氏を同族とみる説が生まれたとも考えられる。宗家の後，阿多地頭職は北方と南方とに二分され，北方を嫡子家高，南方を庶子宗景が相続したらしい。

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