Kyōgoku fortified residence ruin
The the name of a Japanese National Historic Site located in the city of Maibara in northern Shiga Prefecture in the Kansai region of Japan. The site consists of the and the . Overview The Kyōgoku clan was a powerful samurai clan which dominated northern Ōmi Province during the muromachi and early Sengoku period. Sasaki Nobutsuna played a prominent role in the Jōkyū War and was awarded wth vast estates in his native Ōmi by the Kamakura shogunate. This fourth son, Ujinobu, inherited the six districts of Echi, Inukami, Sakata, Ika, Azai and Takashima and the position of shugo and established a cadet branch of the clan, taking his name from the location of his residence in the Kyōgoku neighborhood of Kyoto. Throughout the remainder of the Kamakura period and the Muromachi period, the prestigious post of shugo was monopolized by the Rokkaku clan, a rival cadet branch of the Sasaki clan which dominated southern Ōmi Province; however, the Kyōgoku remained rulers of northern Ōmi for our two centuries until, when weekend by internal rebellions, the clan was defeated by the Azai clan of Echizen Province. The Kyōgoku had their main residence in the Kiyotaki neighborhood of what is now