Edo Shigenaga

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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

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Enbutsu, Sumiko (10 August 2003). "The ones who got there first". Japan Times. 
  2. ↑ Yoshitsune: a fifteenth-century Japanese chronicle, By Helen Craig McCullough, page 307


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