Uda Genji

The Uda Genji (宇多うた源はじめ氏し) were the successful and powerful line of the Japanese Minamoto clan that were descended from Emperor Uda (宇多天皇うだてんのう).

Uda Genji 宇多うた源はじめ氏し
Sasaki Shrine, shrine of the Uda Genji
Home province	Ōmi Izumo others
Parent house	Minamoto clan
Titles	Various
Founder	Minamoto no Masazane
Founding year	10th century
Cadet branches	Sasaki clan Rokkaku clan Kyōgoku clan Kutsugi clan Kuroda clan Oki clan Enya clan Toda clan Takaoka clan Koshi clan Sase clan Nogi clan others

Overview

Many of the famous Minamoto warriors, including Sasaki clan (佐々木ささき氏し), also known as Daimyō Kyōgoku clan (京極きょうごく氏し); Sasaki Nariyori (佐々木ささき成しげる頼よりゆき), the founder of the Ōmi Genji clan (近江おうみ源はじめ氏し); and Sasaki Yoshikiyo (佐々木ささき義清よしきよ), the founder of the Izumo Genji clan (出雲いずも源はじめ氏し) belong to this line. The family is named after Emperor Uda, grandfather of Minamoto no Masazane (源みなもと雅信まさのぶ), patriarch of the Uda Genji (宇多うた源はじめ氏し).

Emperor Uda was father of Imperial Prince Atsumi (敦あつし實じつ親王しんのう Atsumi Shinnō) (892-966) - father of Minamoto no Masazane (源みなもと雅信まさのぶ) (920-993), founder of the Uda Genji, from whom the Uda Genji is descended. Many samurai families of Ōmi and Izumo Province belong to this line and had used "Minamoto" clan name in official records, including Sasaki clan, Rokkaku clan, Kyōgoku clan, Kutsugi clan, Kuroda clan, Oki clan, Enya clan, Toda clan, Takaoka clan, Koshi clan, Sase clan, Nogi clan, etc. The Shinto shrine connected closely with the clan is known as the Sasaki Shrine (沙すな沙貴さき神社じんじゃ Sasaki Jinja).

Family tree

(Sumitate-Yotsumeyui),
The Crest of the Rokkaku clan

(Yotsumeyui), The mon of the Kyogoku clan

                                  ∴
                                 Emperor Uda(867-931)
                                  ┃
                                 Prince Atsumi(893-967)
                                  ┃
                                 Minamoto no Masazane(920-993)
                                  ┃
                                 Sukenori(951-998)
                                  ┃
                                 Nariyori(976-1003)
                                  ┃
                                 Noritsune(1000-1058)
                                  ┃
                                 Sasaki Tsunekata
                                  ┃
                                 Sasaki Tametoshi
                                  ┃
                                 Sasaki Hideyoshi(1112–1184)
                                  ┣━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━┳━━━━━┓
                               　Sadatsuna  　Tsunetaka  　Moritsuna  　Takatsuna    Yoshikiyo
 ┏━━━━━━┳━━━━━┳━━━━━┫          ┃            ┃             ┃         ┣━━━━━┓
Hirotsuna  Sadashige  Hirosada  Nobutsuna    Takashige    Kaji Nobuzane  Shigetuna  Masayoshi  Yasukiyo
 ┏━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━╋━━━━━━━━┓                       ┏━━━━━┳━━━━━┫
Shigetsuna　Takanobu　Rokkaku Yasutsuna　Kyogoku Ujinobu                  Yoriyasu　Yoshiyasu　Muneyasu

References

• Tōin Kinsada (14th century).'Sonpi Bunmyaku' (新しん編纂へんさん圖ず本朝ほんちょう尊卑そんぴ分脈ぶんみゃく系譜けいふ雜ざつ類るい要よう集しゅう)
• Hanawa Hokiichi (1793). 'Gunshoruiju' (群ぐん書しょ類従るいじゅう)
• Sansom, George (1958). 'A History of Japan to 1334'. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press.

See also

• Seiwa Genji
• Sasaki clan
• Rokkaku clan
• Kyōgoku clan
• Amago clan
• Takaoka clan
• Sasaki Yoshikiyo
• Nogi Maresuke