Miyoshi

The Bingo Miyoshi, distinct from the Miyoshi house of Awa, claimed Fujiwara descent through Fujiwara no Kanenori. In the twelfth century Kanenori moved from Ōmi to Miyoshi in Bingo, and his son Kanemune became the first head of the family, which built Hiebiwayama Castle and grew into a local kokujin power.

At the fall of the Kamakura shogunate the Miyoshi sided with Emperor Go-Daigo and then with Ashikaga Tadafuyu. Their Sengoku head Munetaka fought for the Amago against Mōri Motonari at Yoshida Kōriyama in 1540, then switched to the Ōuchi. In 1553 Munetaka and his son Takasuke submitted to Motonari, and a daughter of the house became his concubine.

After the Sekigahara campaign of 1600 their head Hirotaka refused to follow the Mōri into Chōshū, became a rōnin in Kyoto and was eventually taken into the Hiroshima domain of the Asano.