From the Ancient Tatara Clan to the Medieval Ouchi Clan: Prefectural Government Officials in Central Politics and Beyond

古代の多々良氏から中世の大内氏へ―国衙在庁の中央出仕とその後―

From the Ancient Tatara Clan to the Medieval Ouchi Clan: Prefectural Government Officials in Central Politics and Beyond

Research on the Ouchi clan in the Late Middle Ages has been very active in recent years. However, there are few related studies on the actual activities of the Ouchi clan from ancient times to the early medieval period, and few areas have been elucidated. In this paper, therefore, we analyze the actual activities of the Ouchi clan in their early period by collecting fragmentary related historical documents dating back to the stage when they were called Tatara clan. As a result, it became clear how they expanded their power based on their activities in the central political world in the late antiquity, after the stage when they were active as provincial officials in Suo Province.

Creators Watanabe Shigeru

[ISSN]2189-4825