is a Japanese aristocratic family. The family is a branch of Hokke and,

History

thumb|[[Konoe Motozane, founder of the Konoe family]]

The Konoe claim descent from Konoe Iezane (1179–1242). Despite Konoe at first being the senior line of the Fujiwara clan, the clan was eventually split up into Five regent houses during the Kamakura period, with each of the five families having the right to assume the regency.

There were at least five Imperial Consorts who came from the Konoe family, including Konoe Sakiko, who was adopted by Toyotomi Hideyoshi in 1586. From there the Konoe lineage was renewed and continued until 1956, when the eldest son of Prime Minister Fumimaro Konoe, Fumitaka, died in the Soviet Union without a legitimate male heir. Fumitaka's wife subsequently adopted his nephew Tadateru Konoe, second son of Fumitaka's sister, as their heir. Tadateru's patrilineal descent, through his biological father Morisada Hosokawa, comes from the Hosokawa clan, a cadet branch of Seiwa Genji and descended from Emperor Seiwa; he also has an elder brother Morihiro Hosokawa, the Prime Minister of Japan from 1993 to 1994. Tadateru married, in 1966, a granddaughter of Emperor Taishō, Yasuko (formerly Princess Yasuko of Mikasa).

Family Tree

Tokiwai family

The was founded by a son of Konoe Tadahiro, Gyōki (尭熈), who was the lead Buddhist monk of Senju-ji, and he took the family name "Tokiwai" since 1872.

Miyagawa family

See also

  • Japanese clans
  • List of Kuge families
  • Five Regent Houses
  • Kujō family
  • Fujiwara family tree

References

  • Konoe kamon at Harimaya.com