tenjo-bito

Updated: August 29, 2026

Fifteen of his family were of, or above, the third rank, and thirty were tenjo-bito. Of these thirty were governed by Taira partisans. Their manors were to be found in five hundred places, and their fields were innumerable.

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