Dewa lords

Who he is

Name

not pinned for 1200

Title

Stewards (jitō) of the former Fujiwara lands in Dewa; the Ōe branch at Nagai in Okitama (recalled)

Since

1189 and after

Family

Ōe no Hiromoto, chief of the Mandokoro, is recalled as holding the Nagai manor in Okitama (Dewa); his second line takes the name Nagai (recalled).

Confidence

low

The brief and recollection of Mass. The Ōkawa Kanetō rising is from the English page on Ashikaga Yoshikane (a campaign in 1190).

Overlord

Kasai Kiyoshige as commissioner for the north; the court's governor of Dewa

What it holds

• Stewardships of the former Fujiwara lands in Dewa (not itemised)
• Nagai-no-shō in Okitama (recalled)

How it was acquired

Granted after 1189 to 1190.

Allies and rivals

Allied with the Ōshū commissioner; the old Fujiwara retainers are the rivals.

How things stand that morning

Settled in the south, thin in the north.

Wealth

Rice of the Shōnai and Yamagata basins; the Mogami river trade; no figure.

Military

Stewards' men; no numbers.

Threats

• A new rising among the old men
• Quarrels over the Haguro temple's lands

Where the sources disagree

• The Ōe at Nagai is recalled; the date of the grant is not pinned.

Evidence: Brief, one English page and recollection.

On the map: Approximate.

Primary sources for Kamakura regime

Chronicles, registers, sagas and inscriptions written in or near 1200 that cover this entry. Each has its own page with editions, translations and where to read it.

• Hundred Times Refined Extracts: court annals (late thirteenth century, from court diaries). Short dated annals of the imperial court excerpted from courtiers' diaries, among them the Gyokuyo and the Meigetsuki. Read online
• Mirror of the East, Anonymous; compiled by officials of the Kamakura shogunate (compiled about 1300 from the shogunate's records, diaries and family documents). The Kamakura house's own chronicle, in daily entries. Read online
• Jottings of a Fool: an interpretative history of Japan, Jien (慈円) (about 1219 to 1220, revised to about 1223). A history by Kujo Kanezane's brother, head of the Tendai school and the leading churchman of the court, written to explain the fall of the Kujo and the rise of the warriors as the working of principle (dori). Read online
• Diary of the Inokuma Regent: the diary of Konoe Iezane, Konoe Iezane (近衛家実) (1197 to 1218, as a daily diary). The diary of the regent's heir, aged twenty-one in 1200 and already a senior courtier under his father Konoe Motomichi, who was regent (sessho) for the child emperor Tsuchimikado. Read online
• Leaves of Jade: the diary of Kujo Kanezane, Kujo (Fujiwara) Kanezane (九條兼實) (1164 to 1200, as a daily diary). The diary of the former regent, Yoritomo's ally at court, who had been driven from power in the Kenkyu purge of 1196 and lived in retirement in 1200. Read online
• Record of the Bright Moon: the diary of Fujiwara no Teika, Fujiwara no Teika (藤原定家) (1180 to 1235, as a daily diary, with gaps). The diary of the poet and courtier, then thirty-eight and a middle-ranking official of the Kujo house. Read online
• Surviving Documents of the Kamakura Period, Various; collected by Takeuchi Rizo (竹内理三) (documents of 1185 to 1333, collected and printed 1971 to 1997). The collected charters, deeds, court orders, shogunal directives, temple records and land registers of the Kamakura age, printed in date order. Read online
• The Tale of the Heike, Anonymous; traditionally attributed to Shinano no Zenji Yukinaga, performed and reshaped by blind reciters (early thirteenth century in its first form; the standard Kakuichi text was fixed in 1371). The epic of the Genpei war, in the form the reciters gave it over the century after 1200. Read online