Waga

The Waga were a kokujin house of Waga district in Mutsu Province. Their reliable genealogy derives them from the Nakajo line; Narisue's son Yoshiyuki moved to Waga around 1220, becoming steward of half the district and taking its name.

During the Nanboku-cho wars the family split between the courts. In 1401 Tokiyoshi was recognised as superintendent over the whole district; a succession feud became the Waga disturbance of 1435 to 1436, drawing in a thirty-thousand-strong Nanbu army and costing the family its outlying lands.

Dispossessed after missing Toyotomi Hideyoshi's Odawara campaign in 1590, the Waga rose unsuccessfully that autumn, and their district passed to the Nanbu in 1591. The Iwasaki rising of 1600 to 1601, launched with Date backing, also failed; its leader Tadachika took his own life after Iwasaki Castle fell.