Yabe

The Suruga Yabe took their name from Yabe village in Udō District, where they served as local land stewards; they claimed descent from the Fujiwara line of the courtier Tsutsumi no Kanesuke. In 1200 a clansman, Yabe Jūrō Terutane, won merit in the destruction of Kajiwara Kagetoki and was enfeoffed with twenty-one villages in Inaba Province, where he founded the separate Inaba Yabe line, while the original house remained in Suruga.

In the Muromachi period the Suruga Yabe became retainers of the Imagawa lords. Tradition at the Kusanagi Kubizuka Inari shrine records that they supported Oshika Norimitsu in an Imagawa succession struggle and were put down.

Later Yabe Sadanori, a retainer of Imagawa Ujizane, made his home again in Yabe village and took the Yabe name; under his son Sadakiyo the house entered Tokugawa service and became hatamoto.