Kamo clan

In this Japanese name, the surname is Kamo.

The Kamo clan (賀茂氏, Kamo-shi) is a Japanese sacerdotal kin group^[1] which traces its roots from a Yayoi period shrine in northeastern Kyoto.^[2] The clan rose to prominence during the Asuka and Heian periods when the Kamo are identified with the 7th-century founding of the Kamo Shrine.^[3]

Kamo clan 賀茂氏
Mon of the Kamo clan
Home province	Yamashiro
Founder	Kamo no Okimi
Founding year	7th century
Cadet branches	Miwa clan (possibly only in legend), Kadenokōji family [ja]

Kamo Shrine

The Kamo Shrine's name references the area's early inhabitants, many of whom continue to live near the shrine their ancestors traditionally served.^[4] The formal names of corollary jinja memorialize vital clan roots in a history which pre-dates the founding of Japan's ancient capital.^[5]

The Kamo Shrine encompasses what are now independent but traditionally associated jinja or shrines—the Kamo-wakeikazuchi Shrine (賀茂別雷神社, Kamo-wakeikazuchi jinja) in Kyoto's Kita Ward and the Kamo-mioya Shrine (賀茂御祖神社, Kamo-mioya jinja) in Sakyo Ward. The jinja names identify the various kami or deities who are venerated; the name also refers to the nearby woods.^[6]

A wild vista unfolds at Tadasu no Mori.

Although now incorporated within boundaries of the city, the location was once Tadasu no Mori (糺の森),^[7] the wild forest home of the exclusive caretakers of the shrine from prehistoric times.^[8]

Notable clan members

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• Kamo no Chōmei (1155–1216)
• Kamo no Mabuchi (1697–1769)

Although Tokugawa Ieyasu did not use the surname Tokugawa before 1566, his appointment as shōgun was contingent on his claim to Matsudaira kinship and a link to the Seiwa Genji. Modern scholarship has revealed that the genealogy proffered to the emperor contained falsified information; however, since the Matsudaira used the same crest as the Kamo clan,^[9] some^[who?] academics suggest that he was likely a descendant of the Kamo clan."^[10]

Genealogy

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Ōyamatsumi[11][12][13]

Susanoo[14][15][16]: 277

Kamuo Ichihime[12][13][17][18]

Konohanachiru-hime[19][16]: 277

Ashinazuchi[20][21]

Tenazuchi[21]

Toshigami[18][17]

Ukanomitama[12][13] (Inari)[22]

Oyamakui[23]

Kushinadahime[21][24][16]: 277

Yashimajinumi[19][16]: 277

Kagutsuchi[25]

Kuraokami[26]

Hikawahime [ja][27][16]: 278

Fuha-no-Mojikunusunu [ja][16]: 278

Fukabuchi-no-Mizuyarehana [ja][16]: 278

Ame-no-Tsudoechine [ja][16]: 278

Funozuno [ja][16]: 278

Sashikuni Okami [ja][16]: 278

Omizunu[16]: 278

Futemimi [ja][16]: 278

Sashikuni Wakahime [ja][16]: 278

Ame-no-Fuyukinu[28][29][16]: 278

Takamimusubi[30][31]

Futodama[30][31]

Nunakawahime[32]

Ōkuninushi[33][16]: 278  (Ōnamuchi)[34]

Kamotaketsunumi no Mikoto[35]

Kotoshironushi[36][37]

Tamakushi-hime[35]

Takeminakata[38][39]

Susa Clan[40]

JAPANESE EMPERORS

711–585 BC Jimmu[41] 660–585 BC(1)

Himetataraisuzu-hime[41]

Kamo no Okimi[36][42]

Mirahime [ja]

632–549 BC Suizei[43][44][45] 581–549 BC(2)

Isuzuyori-hime[42][46]

Hikoyai[43][44][45]

Kamuyaimimi[43][44][45] d.577 BC

Miwa clan and Kamo clan

Nunasokonakatsu-hime[47][36]

Imperial House of Japan

Ō clan[48][49] and Aso clan[50]

• Pink is female.
• Blue is male.
• Grey means other or unknown.
• Clans, families, people groups are in green.

Notes

1. Breen, John and Mark Teeuwen. (2000). Shinto in History: Ways of the Kami, p. 86.
2. Shimogamo-jinja web site: history.
3. Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric et al. (2002). Japan Encyclopedia, p. 586.
4. Nelson, John K. (2000). Enduring Identities: The Guise of Shinto in Contemporary Japan, pp. 92-99.
5. Miyazaki, Makoto. "Lens on Japan: Defending Heiankyo from Demons," Daily Yomiuri. December 20, 2005.
6. Kamigamo-jinja web site: about the shrine Archived 2009-02-21 at the Wayback Machine.
7. Terry, Philip. (1914). Terry's Japanese empire, p. 479.
8. Nelson, p. pp. 67-69.
9. Nussbaum, Japan Encyclopedia, p. 34.
10. Plutschow, Herbert. (1995). Japan's Name Culture: The Significance of Names in a Religious, Political and Social Context, p. 158.
11. Kaoru, Nakayama (7 May 2005). "Ōyamatsumi". Encyclopedia of Shinto. Retrieved 2010-09-29.
12. Chamberlain (1882). Section XIX.—The Palace of Suga.
13. Chamberlain (1882). Section XX.—The August Ancestors of the Deity-Master-of-the-Great-Land.
14. Atsushi, Kadoya (10 May 2005). "Susanoo". Encyclopedia of Shinto. Retrieved 2010-09-29.
15. "Susanoo | Description & Mythology". Encyclopedia Britannica.
16. Herbert, J. (2010). Shinto: At the Fountainhead of Japan. Routledge Library Editions: Japan. Taylor & Francis. p. 402. ISBN 978-1-136-90376-2. Retrieved 2020-11-21.
17. 大年神 [Ōtoshi-no-kami] (in Japanese). Kotobank. Archived from the original on 5 June 2023. Retrieved 5 May 2023.
18. 大年神 [Ōtoshi-no-kami] (in Japanese). Kokugakuin University. Archived from the original on 5 June 2023. Retrieved 5 May 2023.
19. Mori, Mizue. "Yashimajinumi". Kokugakuin University Encyclopedia of Shinto.
20. Frédéric, L.; Louis-Frédéric; Roth, K. (2005). Japan Encyclopedia. Harvard University Press reference library. Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-01753-5. Retrieved 2020-11-21.
21. "My Shinto: Personal Descriptions of Japanese Religion and Culture". www2.kokugakuin.ac.jp. Retrieved 2023-10-16.
22. “‘My Own Inari’: Personalization of the Deity in Inari Worship.” Japanese Journal of Religious Studies 23, no. 1/2 (1996): 87-88
23. "Ōtoshi | 國學院大學デジタルミュージアム". 2022-08-17. Archived from the original on 2022-08-17. Retrieved 2023-11-14.
24. "Encyclopedia of Shinto - Home : Kami in Classic Texts : Kushinadahime". eos.kokugakuin.ac.jp.
25. "Kagutsuchi". World History Encyclopedia.
26. Ashkenazi, M. (2003). Handbook of Japanese Mythology. Handbooks of world mythology. ABC-CLIO. p. 213. ISBN 978-1-57607-467-1. Retrieved 2020-11-21.
27. Chamberlain, B.H. (2012). Kojiki: Records of Ancient Matters. Tuttle Classics. Tuttle Publishing. ISBN 978-1-4629-0511-9. Retrieved 2020-11-21.
28. Philippi, Donald L. (2015). Kojiki. Princeton University Press. p. 92.
29. Chamberlain (1882). Section XX.—The August Ancestors of the Deity-Master-Of-The-Great Land.
30. Ponsonby-Fane, R. A. B. (2014-06-03). Studies In Shinto & Shrines. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-136-89294-3.
31. "Encyclopedia of Shinto - Home : Kami in Classic Texts : Futodama". eos.kokugakuin.ac.jp. Retrieved 2021-07-13.
32. Philippi, Donald L. (2015). Kojiki. Princeton University Press. pp. 104–112.
33. Atsushi, Kadoya; Tatsuya, Yumiyama (20 October 2005). "Ōkuninushi". Encyclopedia of Shinto. Retrieved 2010-09-29.
34. Atsushi, Kadoya (21 April 2005). "Ōnamuchi". Encyclopedia of Shinto. Retrieved 2010-09-29.
35. The Emperor's Clans: The Way of the Descendants, Aogaki Publishing, 2018.
36. Varley, H. Paul. (1980). Jinnō Shōtōki: A Chronicle of Gods and Sovereigns. Columbia University Press. p. 89. ISBN 9780231049405.
37. Atsushi, Kadoya (28 April 2005). "Kotoshironushi". Encyclopedia of Shinto. Retrieved 2010-09-29.
38. Sendai Kuji Hongi, Book 4 (先代舊事本紀 巻第四), in Keizai Zasshisha, ed. (1898). Kokushi-taikei, vol. 7 (国史大系 第7巻). Keizai Zasshisha. pp. 243–244.
39. Chamberlain (1882). Section XXIV.—The Wooing of the Deity-of-Eight-Thousand-Spears.
40. Tanigawa Ken'ichi [de] 『日本の神々 神社と聖地 7 山陰』（新装復刊） 2000年 白水社 ISBN 978-4-560-02507-9
41. Kazuhiko, Nishioka (26 April 2005). "Isukeyorihime". Encyclopedia of Shinto. Archived from the original on 2023-03-21. Retrieved 2010-09-29.
42. 『神話の中のヒメたち　もうひとつの古事記』p94-97「初代皇后は「神の御子」」
43. 日本人名大辞典+Plus, デジタル版. "日子八井命とは". コトバンク (in Japanese). Retrieved 2022-06-01.
44. ANDASSOVA, Maral (2019). "Emperor Jinmu in the Kojiki". Japan Review (32): 5–16. ISSN 0915-0986. JSTOR 26652947.
45. "Visit Kusakabeyoshimi Shrine on your trip to Takamori-machi or Japan". trips.klarna.com. Retrieved 2023-03-04.
46. 『図説　歴代天皇紀』p42-43「綏靖天皇」
47. Anston, p. 143 (Vol. 1)
48. Grapard, Allan G. (2023-04-28). The Protocol of the Gods: A Study of the Kasuga Cult in Japanese History. University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-91036-2.
49. Tenri Journal of Religion. Tenri University Press. 1968.
50. Takano, Tomoaki; Uchimura, Hiroaki (2006). History and Festivals of the Aso Shrine. Aso Shrine, Ichinomiya, Aso City.: Aso Shrine.

References

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• Iwao, Seiichi, Teizō Iyanaga, Susumu Ishii, Shōichirō Yoshida, et al. (2002). Dictionnaire historique du Japon. Paris: Maisonneuve & Larose. ISBN 978-2-7068-1632-1; OCLC 51096469
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• Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric and Käthe Roth. (2002). Japan Encyclopedia. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-00770-3 (cloth) -- ISBN 978-0-674-01753-5 (paper)
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