Asukai family

Asukai
飛鳥井
Parent houseFujiwara clan
FounderFujiwara no Masatsune

The Asukai family (飛鳥井家 Asukai-ke) was a Japanese noble family.

The family began in the early Kamakura period as a cadet branch of the Fujiwara clan, being founded by Fujiwara (Asukai) no Masatsune. The family excelled at waka poetry and playing kemari (an ancient Japanese sport similar to soccer), as well as calligraphy.

They had a hand in several of the imperial anthologies of waka, and had close ties to the Kamakura and Muromachi shogunates.

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