Nakajo clan

Japanese: 中条氏 - ちゅうじょううじ

A medieval samurai family whose main territory was Nakajo no Yashiro in Musashi Province (northern Saitama Prefecture). Yoshikatsufusa Hohashi Narihiro (also known as Nakajo Hoin), a descendant of the Yokoyama clan of the Seven Clans of Musashi and who ruled Nakajo no Yashiro, was adopted by Hatta Tomoie, a powerful clan in Shimotsuke Province, and became the ancestor of the Nakajo clan of the Fujiwara surname. Ienaga was also a member of the army led by Minamoto no Noriyori and Yoshitsune in pursuit of the Taira clan, but he is better known for his achievements in government affairs in peacetime. He was a member of the Council of Ministers, established in 1225 (Karoku 1), and served in that position until his death in 1236 (Katei 2), and he also frequently traveled to Kyoto as a special envoy conveying orders from the shogunate.

Nakajo clan

A medieval samurai family in Echigo. The head family of the Miura Wada clan, who ruled over Okuyama Manor. Since Wada Yoshishige, a member of the powerful Miura clan of Sagami Province, became land steward of Okuyama Manor at the beginning of the Kamakura period, various parts of the manor were divided among the family through divisional inheritance. During the Nanboku-cho period, the head family's control over the family weakened, and illegitimate children separated their territories into surnames, and the Kurokawa, Haguro, and Tsukiji clans were established. The head family also called themselves the Nakajo clan from the mid-Muromachi period onwards, and survived the turmoil of the late Middle Ages by making the Tsukiji clan a vassal while fighting against the Kurokawa clan and others, and later belonged to the Uesugi clan.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

武蔵国中条保(埼玉県北部)を本領とする中世武家。武蔵七党横山党の流れをくみ中条保を領した義勝房法橋成尋(異称中条法印)の子家長が，下野国の雄族八田知家の養子となり，藤原姓中条氏の祖となった。家長は源範頼･義経の平氏追討軍にも名を連ねているが，その活躍はむしろ平時の政務において知られる。1225年(嘉禄1)創設された評定衆の一員として36年(嘉禎2)没するまでその任にあったほか，幕府の指令を伝達する特使としてたびたび上洛。

なかじょううじ【中条氏】

越後の中世武家。奥山荘を領した三浦和田氏の惣領家。相模国の雄族三浦氏の一族和田義茂が鎌倉時代のはじめ奥山荘地頭となって以来，分割相続によって荘内の各地は一族が分領する形態をとった。南北朝時代に入ると惣領による一族統制力が弱体化，庶子家がおのおのの所領を名字の地として分立し，黒川，羽黒，築地の各氏が成立した。惣領家も室町中期以降中条氏を称して，黒川氏などと抗争しつつ築地氏を被官化するなどして中世後期の動乱を乗り切り，のち上杉氏に属した。

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