Edo Shigenaga

Edo Shigenaga (江戸重長) was a Japanese samurai lord and gokenin in the late Heian and early Kamakura period, who was the second head of the Edo clan. He was also known as Edo Taro.[1]

Shigenaga was the son of Edo Shiro Shigetsugu, who is the namesake of Edo, the former name of Tokyo.[2][3] In 1180, Shigenaga was asked by Minamoto no Yoritomo to cooperate in his uprising against the rule of the Taira clan in Kyoto.[4] Hesitant at first, Shigenaga eventually helped Yoritomo overthrow the Taira rule. Yoritomo granted Shigenaga seven new estates in Musashi Province, including Kitami in what is now Tokyo's western Setagaya Ward.[4]

References

  1. ^ Yoshitsune: a fifteenth-century Japanese chronicle, By Helen Craig McCullough, page 307
  2. ^ Stephen Mansfield, Tokyo: A Biography, 2016, p. 16.
  3. ^ Noel Nouet, John and Michelle Mills, Shogun's City, 1990, p. 16.
  4. ^ a b Enbutsu, Sumiko (10 August 2003). "The ones who got there first". Japan Times.


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