![]() ![]() Dōkan lived in this castle until his assassination in 1486. ![]() In 1456, a vassal of the Ōgigayatsu branch of the Uesugi clan, started to build a castle on the former fortified residence of the Edo clan and took the name Ōta Dōkan. At the fall of the shogunate in the 14th century, the Edo clan took the side of the Southern court, and its influence declined during the Muromachi period. ![]() Shigetsugu's son, Edo Shigenaga ( 江戸重長), took the Taira's side against Minamoto no Yoritomo in 1180 but eventually surrendered to Minamoto and became a gokenin for the Kamakura shogunate. Shigetsugu built a fortified residence, probably around the tip of the Musashino terrace, which would become the Edo castle. A descendant of the head of the Chichibu clan settled in the area and took the name Edo Shigetsugu ( 江戸重継), likely based on the name used for the place, and founded the Edo clan. Its development started in late 11th century with a branch of the Kanmu- Taira clan ( 桓武平氏) called the Chichibu clan ( 秩父氏), coming from the banks of the then- Iruma River, present day upstream of Arakawa river. Edo first appears in the Azuma Kagami chronicles, that name for the area being probably used since the second half of the Heian period. History Before Tokugawa īefore the 10th century, there is no mention of Edo in historical records, but for a few settlements in the area. ![]()
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