Ebina Clan

Japanese: 海老名氏 - えびなうじ

A medieval samurai family whose main territory was Ebina-go, Takatsu County, Sagami Province. It is said that the family began when Suekane, a descendant of the Yokoyama clan of the Seven Clans of Musashi, was adopted by Sagami no Kami Minamoto no Arikane (or, according to another theory, Chikasue), lived in the area, and took the name Ebina. The family's name already appears in the Tale of the Hogen era, and after becoming a vassal of the Kamakura clan, they acquired land in various places and developed. Like other clans of the Yokoyama clan, they lost many of their family members in the Wada War in 1213 (Kenpo 1), but their descendants who moved to territories in the west prospered. One of the clans that inherited the name of the Yano Manor in Harima Province and the position of Nawaura Jito, also known as the Goshi, noticed that the rule of the manor lord was weak from the end of the Kamakura period to the Nanboku-cho period, and rebelled against the manor lord together with the Terada clan, who descended from the manor's development lord, and was labeled as a villain.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

相模国高座郡海老名郷を本領とする中世の武家。武蔵七党横山党の流れをくむ季兼が，相模守源有兼(異説親季)の養子となってこの地に住み，海老名を称したのに始まるという。一族の名はすでに《保元物語》などにもみえ，鎌倉御家人となってからは各地に所領を得て発展する。横山党の他の諸氏と同じように，1213年(建保1)の和田合戦で一族の多くを失うが，西国の所領に下った子孫は繁栄している。そのうち播磨国矢野荘例名･那波浦地頭職，別名下司職などを相伝した一族は，鎌倉時代末～南北朝時代にかけて，荘園領主の支配が弱体であることに目をつけ，同荘の開発領主の系譜をひく寺田氏らとともに荘園領主に反抗し，悪党人のレッテルをはられた。

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