Nakamura no Sanemune

Nakamura no Sanemune was a late-Heian court official of the Fujiwara Hokke Yamakage line, son of Fujiwara no Sadato. In 1100 he was appointed governor of Mutsu, and in 1107 he led Emperor Horikawa's memorial rites.

As vice-governor of Hitachi from 1111 he built Isa Castle in Isa manor and, through the scholar Oe no Masafusa, won relief from an extraordinary tax. In 1113 he crushed the Yokoyama revolt in Musashi, then settled at Nakamura and took that clan name.