The was a Japanese aristocratic kin group. Papinot, Jacques Edmond Joseph. (1906). ''Dictionnaire d’histoire et de géographie du Japon''; Papinot, (2003)
"Ichijō," ''Nobiliare du Japon'', p. 13
retrieved 2013-7-7. The Ichijō was a branch of the

Fujiwara clan was a powerful family of imperial regents in Japan, descending from the Nakatomi clan and, as legend held, through them their ancestral god Ame-no-Koyane. The Fujiwara prospered since the ancient times and dominated the imperial court until th ...

, Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005)
"Ichijō"
in ''Japan Encyclopedia'', p. 368. founded by

Kujō Michiie Kujō Michiie (九条道家) (July 28, 1193 — April 1, 1252) was a Japanese regent in the 13th century. He was the father of Kujō Yoritsune and grandson of Kujō Kanezane (also known as Fujiwara no Kanezane). He was the father of Norizane a ...

's son

Ichijō Sanetsune , son of regent Michiie, was a '' kugyō'' or Japanese court noble of the Kamakura period (1185–1333). He was the founding father of the Ichijō family, one of the five regent houses which monopolized regent positions in Japan's imperial cour ...

and was one of the

Five regent houses The Five Regent Houses (五摂家; ''go-sekke'') is a collective term for the five families of the Fujiwara clan that monopolized the regent position of '' Sekkan'' in Japan from 1252 until 1868. The five houses are Konoe, Takatsukasa, Kujō, Ic ...

, from which the

Sesshō and Kampaku In Japan, was a title given to a regent who was named to act on behalf of either a child Emperor before his coming of age, or an empress regnant. The was theoretically a sort of chief advisor for the Emperor, but was in practice the title of ...

were chosen.

Genealogy

Tosa-Ichijō clan

The , a cadet branch of the Ichijō family, was established during the chaos of

Ōnin War The , also known as the Upheaval of Ōnin and Ōnin-Bunmei war, was a civil war that lasted from 1467 to 1477, during the Muromachi period in Japan. ''Ōnin'' refers to the Japanese era during which the war started; the war ended during the Bunmei ...

. In 1475, Ichijō Norifusa, the 9th head of the family, fled from Kyoto to

Tosa Province was a province of Japan in the area of southern Shikoku. Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "''Tosa''" in . Tosa bordered on Awa to the northeast, and Iyo to the northwest. Its abbreviated form name was . In terms of the Gokishichidō syste ...

, where one of the fiefdoms the family held by the time; some descendants of Norifusa stayed in Tosa for generations. The family, however, eventually lost control of Tosa during the reign of Ichijō Kanesada since 1575. The following is the list of the heads of the Tosa-Ichijō clan: # Norifusa (1423-1480) # Fusaie (1475-1539), second son of Norifusa # (1498-1541), eldest son of Norifusa and brother of Fusamichi (11th head) # (1522-1549), son of Fusafuyu # Kanesada (1543-1585), son of Fusamoto # Tadamasa (d. c. 1580), son of Kanesada # (b. c. 1578), son of Tadamasa. His whereabouts was lost in record since 1600, after the fall of the

Chōsokabe clan , also known as , was a Japanese samurai kin group. Over time, they were known for serving the Hosokawa clan, then the Miyoshi clan and then the Ichijo clan. Papinot, Jacques Edmond Joseph. (1906). ''Dictionnaire d’histoire et de géographi ...

as a result of the

Battle of Sekigahara The Battle of Sekigahara (Shinjitai: ; Kyūjitai: , Hepburn romanization: ''Sekigahara no Tatakai'') was a decisive battle on October 21, 1600 (Keichō 5, 15th day of the 9th month) in what is now Gifu prefecture, Japan, at the end of ...

. In 1902, Ichijō Sanemoto (一条実基, 1901-1972), eldest son of Ichijō Saneteru (25th head of Ichijō) and his second wife, became a baron, in name of revival for the Tosa-Ichijō clan. Baron Ichijō Sanemoto later married a British woman, Tess Snare (1900-1982), in 1928.

Daigo family

The was founded in 1679 by Ichijō Akiyoshi's second son Fuyumoto. The family name was given by Fuyumoto's cousin,

Emperor Reigen was the 112th emperor of Japan,Imperial Household Agency (''Kunaichō'') 霊元天皇 (112)/ref> according to the traditional order of succession.Ponsonby-Fane, Richard. (1959). ''The Imperial House of Japan'', pp. 117. Reigen's reign spanned t ...

References

External links

Ichijō ''kamon'' at Harimaya.com
Japanese clans Fujiwara clan {{Japan-clan-stub

Genealogy

Tosa-Ichijō clan

Daigo family

See also

References

External links