Awata clan

Japanese: 粟田氏 - あわたうじ

An ancient powerful clan. A relative of the Wani clan. According to the clan genealogy in the Kojiki, the founder was Emperor Kōshō's son, Amenooshitarashihiko. With the establishment of the eight-class surname system during the reign of Tenmu, the clan changed from omi to ason. They lived mainly in Soekami-gun (eastern Nara City) in Yamato, where the Wani clan and its relatives lived, and Awata-go, Atago-gun, Yamashiro (Higashiyama Ward, Kyoto City), where the Wani clan and its relatives lived, and Ono-jinja Shrine in Shiga-gun, Omi, was their tutelary deity in the early Heian period. They produced Dokan, known as a scholar who went to Tang China during the reign of Kōtoku, Chizō, known as a scholar who went to Tang China, and Awata Masato, who was active in the selection of the Taihō Code and as a Japanese envoy to Tang China during the reign of Emperor Bunkyō. Awata Moroe became the wife of Ōi no Omi (Emperor Junnin) after the death of her husband, Fujiwara no Masatsugu (the eldest son of Nakamaro).

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

古代の豪族。和珥（わに）氏の同族。《古事記》の氏族系譜では孝昭天皇の皇子天押帯日子（あめのおしたらしひこ）命を始祖とする。天武朝の八色の姓（やくさのかばね）の制定により臣（おみ）から朝臣（あそん）となる。和珥氏同族の集住する大和の添上郡(奈良市東部)や，山城の愛宕郡粟田郷(京都市東山区)を中心に居住し，近江の滋賀郡小野神社は平安初期に氏神であった。入唐学問僧として知られる孝徳朝の道観や天智朝の智蔵，文武朝に大宝律令の撰定や遣唐使として活躍した粟田真人を出し，また粟田諸姉は夫藤原真従(仲麻呂の長男)の死後大炊王(淳仁天皇)の妻となった。

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