Nawa clan

Japanese: 那波氏 - なわうじ

A local lord of Nawa County, Kozuke Province. With the establishment of the Kamakura Shogunate, Nawa County was given to Oe Hiromoto, who was invited from Kyoto as a legal bureaucrat and became a senior retainer of the Shogunate, and his son, Munemoto, was the origin of the Nawa clan. Munemoto's son, Masashige, became a member of the Council of Ministers and played an important role within the Shogunate. After the establishment of the Muromachi Shogunate, he played an active role as a servant of the Kamakura Shogunate, and was contracted to be the magistrate of Tone Manor for his relatives, the Otomo clan, who had moved west to Bungo. In the Eikyō Rebellion and the Yuki War in the first half of the 15th century, he belonged to the Uesugi clan, the kanrei and guardian of Kozuke Province, and his family appeared as members of the Joshu Ikki, an uprising of local lords in Kozuke Province.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

上野国那波郡の在地領主。鎌倉幕府の成立とともに，京都から法曹官僚として招かれ幕府の宿老となった大江広元に那波郡が与えられ，その子宗元から那波氏が始まる。宗元の子政茂は評定衆となり，幕府内で重きをなした。室町幕府成立後は，鎌倉府の奉公衆として活躍し，親類で豊後に西遷した大友氏の利根荘の代官請負などをおこなった。15世紀前半の永享の乱，結城合戦などには管領で上野守護の上杉氏に属し，その一族は，上野の国人一揆である上州一揆の成員として登場する。

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