sano-uji

Updated: May 29, 2025

There were the Sano-uji of Shimotsuke, Mutsu, and Dewa; and there were the Kondo, the Muto, the Koyama, and the Yuki, all in different parts of the Kwanto. In fact, the empire outside the capital was practically divided between the Minamoto, the Taira, and the Fujiwara families, so that anything like a feud could scarcely fail to have wide ramifications.

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