Azuma clan - Touji

Japanese: 東氏 - とううじ

A medieval and early modern samurai family from Shimousa. A branch of the Taira clan, the Chiba clan. Their ancestor was Rokuro-dayu Taneyori, the sixth son of Chiba Tsunetane. Azuma Taneyori served Josaimon-in (the daughter of Emperor Toba, Moshi), and ruled over Azuma Manor in Katori County, Shimousa Province, and called himself the Azuma clan. He pledged himself to disciple with the monk Mongaku of Jingo-ji Temple, and when Minamoto no Yoritomo raised an army (1180), he defeated the Mokudai of Shimousa Province together with Naritane, the son of his eldest brother Tanemasa. In 1185 (Bun'ei 1), his father bestowed the Misaki Manor that had been given to his father Tsunetane by Yoritomo. Taneyori's son Shigetane was a poet who served the third shogun, Minamoto no Sanetomo, and was known as "the unrivaled attendant." His son Taneyuki (Sosen) became the son-in-law of Fujiwara no Tameie (son of Fujiwara no Teika) and was famous as a poet of the Nijo school.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

下総出身の中･近世武家。平姓千葉氏族。千葉常胤の六男六郎大夫胤頼（たねより）を祖とする。東胤頼は上西門院(鳥羽天皇の皇女統子)に仕え，下総国香取郡東荘を領して東氏を称した。神護寺僧文覚（もんがく）と師弟の契を結び，また源頼朝の挙兵(1180)に際し長兄胤正の子成胤とともに下総国の目代を討った。1185年(文治1)頼朝から父常胤に与えられた三崎荘を父から譲与された。胤頼の子重胤は3代将軍源実朝に仕え〈無双の近仕〉と称された歌人で，その子胤行(素暹)は藤原為家(藤原定家の子)の娘婿となり，二条流の歌人として名高い。

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