Honjo-shi

Japanese: 本庄氏 - ほんじょううじ

(1) A samurai family that ruled over the Honjo side of Koizumi-sho in Echigo Province (Murakami City, Niigata Prefecture, Iwafune County). Originally a Taira clan, one of the Eight Taira clans of Bando. Due to their contributions to the founding of the Kamakura Shogunate, they were given the position of land steward in Koizumi-sho, formerly the territory of the Shiro clan in Echigo, and moved there. The family branched out into various parts of Koizumi-sho, but the Irobe clan, who ruled over the Kano side during the Kamakura period, was the first to become independent. During the Muromachi period, the Ayukawa clan, the Ogawa clan, and others became independent, and at one time the head of the Honjo family was taken over by the Ogawa clan. No family documents of the Honjo clan remain, and apart from the two generations of Fusanaga and Shigenaga in the 16th century, the family lineage before the Sengoku period is unclear.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

(1)越後国小泉荘(新潟県村上市，岩船郡)の本庄方を領した武家。もと坂東八平氏の一つ平姓秩父氏。鎌倉幕府創業の功績によって越後の城氏の旧領小泉荘に地頭職を与えられて移住した。小泉荘内各地に一族が分派したが，鎌倉時代に加納方を領した色部氏がもっとも早く自立した。室町時代には鮎川氏，小河氏などが独立し，一時本庄宗家は小河氏に家督を奪われた。本庄氏の家伝文書は現存せず，16世紀の房長，繁長の2代のほか，戦国以前の家系は明らかでない。

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