Chiaki-san - Senjuuji

Japanese: 千秋氏 - せんじゅううじ

A branch of the Atsuta Daigūji family of the Southern Fujiwara clan. At the end of the 11th century, Fujiwara Suenori was given the position of Atsuta Daigūji by his maternal grandfather, Owari Inshōki, and afterwards, the position was passed from the Owari clan to the Fujiwara clan as hereditary, and was inherited by the descendants of Suenori's children Noritada, Noritada, and Noritada. Among them, the Chiaki clan began when Noritada's son, Noritomo (real name Arinori, later changed his name to Nobutsuna), took the name Chiaki. The title is said to have originated from the place name of Shitara County, Mikawa Province. Noritomo was a judge for the Hachijō-in Imperial Court and is said to have also served in Kamakura, and was also appointed governor of Suruga Province, which was a fief of the shogunate.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

藤原南家熱田大宮司家の一流。11世紀末，藤原季範（すえのり）が外祖父尾張員職より熱田大宮司職を譲与されて以後，同職は尾張氏より藤原氏の世襲へと移行，季範の子範忠，範信，範雅の子孫がこれを継承した。このうち千秋氏は範信の子憲朝(本名有範，のち信綱と改名)が千秋を号したのに始まる。その号は三河国設楽郡の地名より発したと言われている。憲朝は八条院判官代であったほか鎌倉にも奉公したと伝えられ，将軍家知行国たる駿河の国守にも任ぜられた。

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