Other lordship · The court at Kyoto and its provinces · as at first light, 1 January 1200

Kaga, Etchū, Noto, Sado families

The Hokuriku provinces east of Echizen were the court's in 1200 by paper and by the great proprietors' estates, and Kamakura's reach was thin.

Local warrior families held the actual power: in Kaga the Togashi and Hayashi, old Fujiwara houses who fought at the side of Kiso Yoshinaka in 1183 and then bowed to Kamakura; in Etchū the Ishiguro and their neighbours of the Toyama plain; in Noto the descendants of the local officials who served Taira no Noritsune before 1185; and on Sado, an island the court used for exiles and whose people paid tribute in hemp and salt (recalled), no family at all that we can name. The temples are a larger power than any of these men: Hakusan's Shirayama Hongū in Kaga, Heisenji in Echizen. The Hokuriku is outside the group of provinces Kamakura names.

Who he is

Name
not pinned for 1200
Title
Local warriors, as named in recollection: the Togashi and Hayashi (Kaga), the Ishiguro (Etchū)
Since
not applicable
Family
The Togashi and Hayashi of Kaga descend from Fujiwara no Toshihito's Kaga line (recalled); the Togashi chief of the 1180s, Yasuie, is the barrier-keeper of the later Kanjinchō legend of Ataka. Etchū's Ishiguro are recalled as the strongest warriors of the Toyama plain. For Noto and Sado the sources we could reach name no family for 1200.
Confidence
low

Recollection; the English Togashi page was not found. No Kaga, Etchū, Noto or Sado list for 1200 was opened.

Overlord

The court's governors; the temple proprietors; Kamakura only through scattered stewards

What it holds

  • Estates and offices in the Kaga, Etchū and Noto plains (not itemised)

How it was acquired

By descent.

Allies and rivals

Rivals of the Hakusan monks over land and shrines (the Kaga dispute of 1177 is the old case); watched by Kamakura's stewards.

How things stand that morning

Quiet.

Wealth

Rice of the Kaga and Toyama plains, salt of Noto, hemp and cloth; no figure.

Military

Local warriors; no numbers.

Threats

  • The Hakusan monks
  • Kamakura's extension of stewards

Where the sources disagree

  • The assignment asks for the families the sources name for Kaga, Etchū, Noto and Sado. No dated source for 1200 was available to me.

Evidence: Recollection only.

On the map: Not drawn: the province records show the ground.

Primary sources for Kyoto court

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.

4 more in the sources library for Korea and Japan.

Sources and studies

  1. KJA_BRIEF.md and the OMNIA board for sheet kja (the lead's notes: [own] computation, [not yet checked against the source] recollection, [en] English Wikipedia)
  2. Azuma Kagami (the Kamakura chronicle), Kenkyu 10 to Shoji 2 entries, recalled and through the brief; ja.wikipedia and ja.wikisource were refused in this session, so no entry was re-read
  3. Jeffrey P. Mass, Warrior Government in Early Medieval Japan (1974), from memory; the archive.org full text could not be opened

Last revised 4 November 2026. Published 4 November 2026. Suggest a correction on the OMNIA Discord.