Mr. Hongo

Japanese: 本郷氏 - ほんごううじ

A samurai family in the medieval Wakasa Province. They lived in Hongo, Oi County (present Hongo, Oi Town, Oi County, Fukui Prefecture). They are thought to have been vassals of the eastern provinces, and in 1213 (Kenpo 1), when the Kamakura Shogunate selected the "geinohaya" (people who served in the shogun's court) from the "Kenko-no-tsubo" (attendants of the Shogun's court) to serve as academic officials, Mimasaka Sakondayu Asachika was included as one of them, as recorded in the Azuma Kagami. He was probably made the land steward of Hongo in Wakasa Province after the Jokyu War, and it is believed that his descendants inherited his position from this place onwards. He also held the land stewardship of Hinakura Manor in Mino Province, the land stewardship of Nakajo Kitakata 1bun in Yoshikawa Manor in Echigo Province, the land stewardship of Nagatomiho Komon in Wakasa Province (later as a substitute land stewardship of Yonedaho in Etchu Province), and other territories.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

中世若狭国の武家。大飯（おおい）郡本郷(現，福井県大飯郡大飯町本郷)に住した。もと東国御家人と考えられ，1213年(建保1)鎌倉幕府が将軍の〈眤近祗候人中〉の〈芸能之輩〉を選んで学問所番として結番した際，美作左近大夫朝親がその一員とされたことが《吾妻鏡》に見える。彼はおそらく承久の乱後に若狭国本郷の地頭とされ，以後ここを本拠として子孫が所職を相伝したものと思われる。ほかに美濃国雛倉荘地頭職，越後国吉河荘内中条北方一分地頭職，若狭国永富保公文職(のち替所として越中国米田保地頭職)その他の所領を有した。

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