Mr. Aiko

Japanese: 愛甲氏 - あいこううじ

A medieval samurai family whose main territory was Aiko Manor in Sagami Province. At the beginning of the 12th century, Takakane of the Yokoyama Party of the Seven Clans of Musashi killed Aiko Naiki Heidaifu and moved into this area, and it is said that the family took the name Aiko thereafter. In the Kamakura period, the family was listed as a vassal of the shogunate, and Aiko Saburo Suetaka in particular was highly valued as a master archer. Suetaka participated in important ceremonies of the shogunate as an archery instructor, and was the archery instructor of the second shogun, Minamoto no Yoriie, in his childhood. During the Fujino Makigari hunting event in 1193 (Kenkyu 4), known as the time of the revenge of the Soga brothers, he helped Yoriie shoot a deer.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

相模国愛甲荘を本領とする中世の武家。12世紀の初め，武蔵七党横山党の隆兼が愛甲内記平大夫を殺害してこの地に進出し，以後その一族が愛甲を称したといわれる。鎌倉時代には幕府御家人に列せられ，とりわけ愛甲三郎季隆は弓の名人として重用された。季隆は射手として幕府の重要な儀式に参加するとともに，2代将軍源頼家幼少時代の弓の師でもあり，曾我兄弟の仇討があったことで知られる1193年(建久4)の富士野巻狩では，頼家に鹿を射止めさせる功をあげた。

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