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Uji (clan)

This is about the early Japanese kin group. For

other uses, seeUji (disambiguation).

In thisJapanese name, the family name is Uji.

Uji (

)are Japanese kin groups of the Kofun period.*

[1]Uji were similar to the traditional Japanese clans;*[2]

however, the pre-Taikaujidid not have many of the char-

acteristics which are commonly understood to be part of

Japanese clans.*[3]For example, theNakatomi clanand

theFujiwara clanwere eachuji.*[4]

The uji was not only a social, economic and political

unit. It also had religious significance in the 5th-7th

centuries.*[5] The chief family has the title of Uji no

kami.*[4]

1 History

TheUjiformed a decentralized ruling structure.

According to Chinese records, the clans divided in ris-

ing urban centers occupied the Yamato Plains (region

between the present-day cities o Nara and Osaka). The

clans were responsible for the protection and the taxa-

tion of these independent territories. Each clan was ruled

by a headman or warlord and worshiped its own unique

Ujigami or clan spirit. The most thorough ancient de-

scription of the Uji clan system comes from early Chi-

nese records during theKofun or Tomb period( 300-552

CE) .*[6]

As pointed out in theHistory of Wei, the peace was pre-

served among the Wa people as long as a queen, who was

a member of the powerful Yamato clan, played the role of

mediator between the various clans. Since pre-classical

Japan lacked a centralized government, an official lan-

guage and a written body of laws, the Shinto religious

beliefs determined the hereditary lineage of the Uji mem-

bers.*[7]

The powerful Yamato ujicreated the Japanese imperial

clan line and its leader during the late sixth and early

seventh century, PrinceShotoku, created the Seventeen

Article Constitution in 604 CE. Thisconstitutiondid not

constitute an official legal text but it was an attempt to

create a bureaucracy to undercut the political domination

of the great clans.*[8]

2 References

[1] Uji clans, titles and the organization of production

and tradeat HeritageofJapan.wordpress.com; retrieved

2013-5-12.

[2] Nussbaum, Louis-Frdric. (2005).UjiinJapan En-

cyclopedia, p. 1010.

[3] Hall, John Whitney. (1988). The Cambridge history of

Japan,Vol. II, p. 128.

[4] Papinot, Jacques Edmond Joseph. (1906). Dictionnaire

dhistoire et de gographie du Japon; Papinot, (2003).

Ryzji,Nobiliare du Japon, p. 67 [PDF 71 of 80)];

retrieved 2013-5-12.

[5] Kitagawa, Joseph Mitsuo. (1987). On understanding

Japanese religion,p. 37.

[6] Lu, David. (1997). Japan: A Documentary History The

Dawn of History to the Late Tokugawa Period, p. 9.

[7] From theWei zhi, as reproduced in the original Chinese

text, Shinwa kara Rekishi e (From Myths to History):

Chuo Koronsha, Nihon no Rekishi( A history of Japan),

Vol. 1 (1965), pp. 214-220.

[8] Nikon Shoki(Chronicles of Japan) inKokushi Taikei(Ma-

jor compilation of National History), new and enlarged,

Vol. 1, No. 2 (1967), pp 142-146.

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