Anenokōji

The Anenokōji were a Kyoto court-noble house of the Fujiwara Hokke, named for the avenue where Fujiwara no Naritoki built his residence in the tenth century. In the 1330s Anenokōji Ietsuna of a cadet branch became governor of Hida; his descendants kept the office before splitting into three houses.

The Hida disturbance of 1411 brought a shogunate army against them. In the Sengoku age the Miki family absorbed the clan and took its name in 1560, ruling Hida until Kanamori Nagachika overran the province in 1585.

A separate senior court-noble line had died out in the early Muromachi period and was revived in 1613 by Ano Saneaki's son Kinkage. It made court precedent its hereditary calling, and in 1760 an imperial order joined its genealogy to the older line.