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Itō Sukeie
Itō Sukeie (伊東 祐家) was a Japanese samurai of the Heian period. He was the father of Itō Sukechika, and the great-grandfather of Soga Tokimune and Soga Sukenari, Sukenari, known for the Revenge of the Soga Brothers incident. Life He was born as the first son of Kudō Suketaka, the 6th head of the Kudō clan and the founder of the Itō clan. Sukeie had a son, Itō Sukechika, Sukechika. Sukeie succeeded his father and took the name Itō Tarō ''Taifu''. However, because Sukeie died at a young age, his father Suketaka made Kudō Suketsugu, a child from his wife's previous marriage, his new heir. Although there is no mention of Itō Sukeie in ''Honchō buke shosei bunmyaku keizu'', his name is recorded in ''Shoshi Honkei-chō'' and ''Hitosugi-shi keizu''. Genealogy The Itō clan, founded by Sukeie's father, claimed descent from the Fujiwara clan through Fujiwara no Korekimi (727–789) and Kudō Ietsugu, his grandfather. After the death of Sukeie in 1181, Sukechika in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samurai
The samurai () were members of the warrior class in Japan. They were originally provincial warriors who came from wealthy landowning families who could afford to train their men to be mounted archers. In the 8th century AD, the imperial court downsized the national army and delegated the security of the countryside to these privately trained warriors. Eventually the samurai clans grew so powerful that they became the ''de facto'' rulers of the country. In the aftermath of the Gempei War (1180-1185), Japan formally passed into military rule with the founding of the first shogunate. The status of samurai became heredity by the mid-eleventh century. By the start of the Edo period, the shogun had disbanded the warrior-monk orders and peasant conscript system, leaving the samurai as the only men in the country permitted to carry weapons at all times. Because the Edo period was a time of peace, many samurai neglected their warrior training and focused on peacetime activities such as a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
