Edo Shigenaga

Edo Shigenaga was the second head of the Edo clan. He first settled and lent his name to the fishing village Edo that eventually grew to become Tokyo.^[1] He was also known as Edo Taro.^[2]

In 1180, Shigenaga was asked by Minamoto Yoritomo to cooperate in his uprising against rule of the Taira in Kyoto.^[1] Hesitant at first, Shigenaga eventually helped Yoritomo overthrow the Taira rule. Yoritomo granted Shigenaga seven new estates in Musashi Province, including Kitami in what is now Tokyo's western Setagaya Ward.^[1]

References

1. Enbutsu, Sumiko (10 August 2003). "The ones who got there first". Japan Times.
2. Yoshitsune: a fifteenth-century Japanese chronicle, By Helen Craig McCullough, page 307