Minoura clan

Japanese: 箕浦氏 - みのうらうじ

A medieval warrior of Omi. His base was Minoura, Sakata County, Omi Province (present-day Omi Town, Sakata County, Shiga Prefecture). He was a descendant of Minoura Yoshimitsu of the Seiwa Genji clan, and Yamamoto Yoshitsune's son Yoshiaki was called Minoura Kanja. Yoshimitsu had deep ties to Omi, including the Onjo-ji temple, and many of his descendants, except for those who settled in Hitachi and became the Satake clan, flourished in Omi, especially in the Koto region, and became the Yamamoto (Kohoku Town, Higashi-Azai County), Kashiwagi (Mizuguchi Town, Koga County), Minoura, and Nishikori (Otsu City) clans. In the late Heian period, he seems to have followed Minoura Tameyoshi, and there was a rumor that Tameyoshi, who was defeated in the Hogen Rebellion (1156), traveled by boat from Otsu to Minoura, and according to one chapter of the Hogen Monogatari, Minoura was Tameyoshi's territory.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

近江の中世武士。近江国坂田郡箕浦(今の滋賀県坂田郡近江町)を本拠とする。清和源氏，源義光の子孫で，山本義経の子義明が箕浦冠者と称している。義光は園城寺をはじめ近江と関係が深く，その子孫は，常陸に土着して佐竹氏となったもののほかは，多くは近江，とくに湖東地方で栄え，山本(東浅井郡湖北町)，柏木(甲賀郡水口町)，箕浦，錦織(大津市)の諸氏となった。平安後期には源為義に従っていたようであり，保元の乱(1156)に敗れた為義が大津から舟で箕浦に渡ったという風聞があったし，《保元物語》の一本によれば，箕浦は為義の所領であったともいう。

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