Maki-shi

Japanese: 牧氏 - まきうじ

A samurai family from the Middle Ages and Early Modern Periods. They existed in Owari, Mikawa, Suruga, Izu, Kozuke, San'in, San'yo, and Kyushu, but the Maki clan of Owari and Suruga is particularly famous in history. (1) The Maki clan of Owari was a branch of the Shiba clan of the Seiwa Genji clan, and it is said that the descendants of Shiba Yoshimune took the name Maki. (2) The Maki clan of Suruga was a medieval samurai family from Ooka Maki in Suruga County (present-day Ooka, Numazu City, Shizuoka Prefecture). They originally took the surname Ooka. At the end of the Heian Period, Ooka Munechika served Taira Yorimori and ruled Ooka Maki. Among the Taira clan, Yorimori had a close relationship with the Minamoto clan, and perhaps because of this connection, Munechika became a vassal of the Kamakura clan, and Munechika's daughter (one theory says she was a sister) was taken as the second wife of Hojo Tokimasa.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

中･近世の武家。尾張･三河･駿河･伊豆･上野をはじめ山陰･山陽･九州各地に存在するが，史上とくに有名なのは尾張と駿河の牧氏である。(1)尾張の牧氏は清和源氏斯波（しば）氏の支族で，斯波義統の子孫が牧氏を称したといわれる。(2)駿河の牧氏は駿河郡大岡牧(現，静岡県沼津市大岡)出身の中世武家。初め大岡姓を名のる。平安末期大岡宗親が平頼盛に仕えて大岡牧を支配した。頼盛は平家一族の中で源氏と親しい関係にあり，その因縁からか宗親は鎌倉御家人となり，宗親の娘(一説に姉妹)が北条時政の後妻に迎えられた。

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