, son of regent Mitsuie, was a ''

kugyō is the collective term for the very few most powerful men attached to the court of the Emperor of Japan in pre-Meiji eras. The term generally referred to the and court officials and denoted a court rank between First Rank and Third Rank un ...

'' or Japanese court noble of the

Muromachi period The , also known as the , is a division of Japanese history running from approximately 1336 to 1573. The period marks the governance of the Muromachi or Ashikaga shogunate ( or ), which was officially established in 1338 by the first Muromachi ...

(1336–1573). He held a regent position kampaku from 1476 to 1479.

Kujō Hisatsune , son of regent Masamoto, was a ''kugyō'' or Japanese court noble of the Muromachi period The , also known as the , is a division of Japanese history running from approximately 1336 to 1573. The period marks the governance of the Muromachi ...

was his son.

Masamoto-kō Tabihikitsuke

In 1501, Kujō Masamoto left Kyoto for an extended stay at the family's Hine Estate to manage the

shōen A was a field or Manorialism, manor in Japan. The Japanese language, Japanese term comes from the Tang dynasty Chinese language, Chinese term "莊園" (Mandarin: ''zhuāngyuán'', Cantonese: ''zong1 jyun4''). Shōen, from about the 8th to th ...

directly in a time when courtier control of estates was increasingly disrupted by the military conflicts and social transformations of the

Sengoku period The was the period in History of Japan, Japanese history in which civil wars and social upheavals took place almost continuously in the 15th and 16th centuries. The Kyōtoku incident (1454), Ōnin War (1467), or (1493) are generally chosen as th ...

. Masamoto kept a diary, Tabihikitsuke (published as Masamoto-kō Tabihikitsuke 政基公旅引付), which offers a view of estate management and rural life and livelihoods.

Family

* Father:

Kujō Mitsuie , son of regent Tsunenori and adopted son of Kujō Tadamoto, was a ''kugyō'' or Japanese court noble of the Muromachi period (1336–1573). He held a regent position kampaku from 1418-1424. Masatada and Masamoto were his sons. Family * Father ...

* Mother: Karahashi Aritoyo’s daughter * Wives and Children: ** Wife: Jusanmi Tomoko ***

** Wife: Mushanakoji Takamitsu’s daughter *** Hosokawa Sumiyuki (1489-1507) ** unknown *** Jijiyuin *** son (1505-1564) adopted by

Ashikaga Yoshitane , also known as , was the 10th ''shōgun'' of the Ashikaga shogunate who headed the shogunate first from 1490 to 1493 and then again from 1508 to 1521 during the Muromachi period of Japan. Yoshitane was the son of Ashikaga Yoshimi and grandson ...

*** son (?-1582) *** 3 sons

References

* 1445 births 1516 deaths Fujiwara clan Kujō family {{japan-noble-stub