Tsuchida clan

Japanese: 土田氏 - つちだうじ

A powerful clan in the medieval Noto Province whose main territory was the area around Tsuchida Manor in Hakui County, Noto Province (present-day southern area of Shika Town, Hakui County, Ishikawa Prefecture). During the Jisho-Juei Civil War, the Tsuchida clan is recorded to have been among the rebel forces from the Hokuriku region who fought in Hiuchidani, Echizen Province, against the Taira clan's punitive forces in late April 1183 (Juei 2). Thereafter, no further activity from the Tsuchida clan is known during the Kamakura period, but in 1340 (Kokoku 1, Rekio 3) during the Nanboku-cho Civil War, Tsuchida Juroemon-no-jo was seen as a military magistrate for Yoshimi Yoritaka, the Noto Guardian, and Tsuchida Azechibo, a member of the same clan, also served the Yoshimi army, so it seems that the Tsuchida clan was a powerful vassal of the Yoshimi clan at the time.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

能登国羽咋（はくい）郡土田荘周辺(現在の石川県羽咋郡志賀町の南域付近)を開発本領とする中世能登国の豪族。治承･寿永の内乱に際し，1183年(寿永2)4月下旬，平氏派遣の追討軍と越前国燧谷（ひうちだに）で戦った北陸道の反乱軍のなかに〈土田〉氏がいたことが，《平家物語》などに見える。以後，土田氏の動きは鎌倉期には知られないが，南北朝内乱期の1340年(興国1∥暦応3)能登守護吉見頼隆（よしみよりたか）の軍奉行（いくさぶぎよう）に土田十郎右衛門尉が見え，同族の土田安察房（あぜちぼう）も吉見軍に従っており，当時，土田氏は吉見氏の有力被官となっていたらしい。

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