Edo Shigenaga
Edo Shigenaga was the second head of the Edo clan. He first settled and lent his name to the fishing village Edo that eventually grew to become Tokyo.[1] He was also known as Edo Taro.[2]
In 1180, Shigenaga was asked by Minamoto Yoritomo to cooperate in his uprising against rule of the Taira in Kyoto.[1] Hesitant at first, Shigenaga eventually helped Yoritomo overthrow the Taira rule. Yoritomo granted Shigenaga seven new estates in Musashi Province, including Kitami in what is now Tokyo's western Setagaya Ward.[1]
References
- ^ a b c Enbutsu, Sumiko (10 August 2003). "The ones who got there first". Japan Times.
- ^ Yoshitsune: a fifteenth-century Japanese chronicle By Helen Craig McCullough, page 307
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