otomo-uji

Updated: May 14, 2025

There will be occasion to refer to the matter again at a later date. It is essential to an intelligent appreciation of Japanese history that some knowledge should be acquired of the annals of the great uji. The first was that of Heguri. The second was the Otomo. The chiefs of the Otomo-uji filled the post of general from age to age, and its members guarded the palace gates.

F. (Frank) Brinkley - A History of the Japanese People : From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era