Yanada family

Japanese: 簗田氏 - やなだうじ

A medieval and early modern samurai family from Shimotsuke. It is said that the family began when Taira no Yoshihira's great-grandson Iesuke lived in Yanada County, Shimotsuke Province, and his grandson Ujisuke took the name Yanada Kaneyusaemonnojo. They were low-ranking vassals of the Ashikaga clan, and after the establishment of the Muromachi shogunate, they served the Kamakura kubo for generations, and Mitsusuke's daughter gave birth to Nariuji, the son of the fourth Kamakura kubo, Ashikaga Mochiuji. Mochiuji was annihilated in the Eikyō Rebellion (1438), but in 1449 (the first year of Hōtoku), Nariuji was welcomed into the Kamakura kubo, and the Yanada clan served him again. When Nariuji moved to Koga in Katsushika County, Shimousa Province (Koga kubo) in conflict with the Kanto kanrei Uesugi clan and the shogunate, Mitsusuke's son Mochisuke supported Nariuji from Sekiyado Castle in the same county.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

下野出身の中･近世武家。平良衡の曾孫家助が下野国簗田郡に住し，その孫氏助が簗田勘解由左衛門尉を称したのが始まりと伝える。足利氏の下級被官で，室町幕府の成立後は代々鎌倉公方に仕え，満助の娘は4代鎌倉公方足利持氏の子成氏を生む。永享の乱(1438)で持氏は滅ぶが，1449年(宝徳1)成氏が鎌倉公方に迎えられ，簗田氏はこれに再び仕えた。関東管領上杉氏，幕府と対立して成氏が下総国葛飾郡古河に移ると(古河公方)，満助の子持助は同郡関宿城に拠って成氏を助けた。

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