Mr. Suyama

Japanese: 陶山氏 - すやまうじ

A medieval local lord from Suyama Village, Oda County, Bitchu Province (present-day Kasaoka City, Okayama Prefecture). He seems to have become powerful by bringing Kasaoka Bay under his control. At the end of the Kamakura period, the head of the Hojo clan held the position of Bitchu Shugo, so the samurai of Bitchu were tightly connected to the Hojo clan. Among the 400 samurai on the Rokuhara side who were killed by Tandai Hojo Nakatoki, who committed suicide at Banba Rengeji Temple in Omi Province (present-day Maibara Town, Sakata County, Shiga Prefecture) while trying to escape Kyoto and run east, are Suyama Jiro Kiyonao, Bitchu no Kami Kiyofusa, and 20 other members of the Suyama clan.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

備中国小田郡陶山村(現，岡山県笠岡市)出身の中世土豪。笠岡浦を勢力下に収めて強盛になったらしい。鎌倉末期，備中守護職を北条氏家督が保持していた関係で，備中の武士は北条氏と固く結びついていた。元弘の乱(1331)では六波羅方として活躍し，京都を脱出東走しようとして途中近江国番場蓮華寺(現，滋賀県坂田郡米原町)で自殺した探題北条仲時に殉じた400人の六波羅方の武士のなかに，陶山次郎清直，同備中守清房以下20人の陶山氏一族の名がみえる。

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