Mr. Harigaya

Japanese: 榛谷氏 - はりがやうじ

A medieval samurai family whose main territory was in Haruya-mikuriya in Musashi Province (present Yokohama City). It is also called "Hangaya". It began when Shigetomo, the son of Arisige, was a branch of the powerful Oyamada clan in Musashi Province and took the name Haruya. Shigetomo was a brave man who served Minamoto no Yoritomo closely because of his martial arts, especially his archery skills, but an anecdote in the Azuma Kagami that says he washed Yoritomo's horse every day during the Oshu War shows Shigetomo's simple character. In 1205 (Genkyu 2), a plot by Tokimasa and others to destroy the Hatakeyama clan, which was in conflict with Tokimasa, in order to make Hiraga Tomomasa, the son-in-law of Hojo Tokimasa's second wife, Makikata, the shogun, was discovered (the Makishi Incident).

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

武蔵国榛谷御厨(現，横浜市)を本領とする中世武家。〈はんがや〉ともいう。武蔵国の雄族小山田氏の一族で，有重の子重朝が榛谷御厨を領し榛谷を称したのにはじまる。重朝はその武芸，とくに弓の腕をかわれて源頼朝に近侍した剛勇の者であるが，奥州合戦の際，乗馬を毎日洗ってやったという《吾妻鏡》の逸話は，重朝の純朴な性格を伝えている。1205年(元久2)北条時政の後妻牧方の娘婿平賀朝雅を将軍にたてるため，朝雅と対立する畠山氏を滅亡に導いた時政らの陰謀が発覚(牧氏の変)。

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