position, becoming hereditary heads of the Jingi-kan (Department of Rites) established by the Code of Taihō in 701. Nakatomi clan after Fujiwara no Kamatari Arguably the most well-known clan leader, Nakatomi no Kamatari was granted the name Fujiwara by Emperor Tenji as a reward for loyal service to the sovereign. Kamatari is honored as the founder of the Fujiwara clan, which accumulated extraordinary powers and prestige in the Heian period (794–1185). Only the descendants of Fujiwara no Kamatari's eldest son Fuhito were allowed the name of Fujiwara. All the other members of the Nakatomi clan kept their original family name until Nakatomi no Imimaro was promoted to chūnagon with the support of Fuhito. In 764, Kiyomaro, the son of Imimaro, sided with Empress Kōken during the Fujiwara no Nakamaro Rebellion, and in 769, he was granted the name Ōnakatomi, thus establishing the Ōnakatomi clan. In the Heian period, all three legitimate houses of Nakatomi clan were granted the name Ōnakatomi. Nakatomi no Ichishi was the last jingihaku (Head of the Department of Worship) of the Nakatomi clan, and his son Itohito later took the name of Ōnakatomi, thus being the last member of the Nakatomi clan. Nakatomi Family Tree (大中臣系図) Ikatsu ōmi-no-mikoto (雷大臣命) ┃ O-o-obase-no-mikoto (大小橋命) ┃ Nakatomi no Amahisa-no-kimi (中臣阿麻毘舎卿) ┃ Nakatomi no Abiko (中臣阿毘古) ┃ Nakatomi no Mahito (中臣真人) ┃ Nakatomi no Kamako (中臣鎌子) ┃ Nakatomi no Kuroda (中臣黒田) ┃ Nakatomi no Tokiwa (中臣常磐) ┃ Nakatomi no Katanoko (中臣可多能祜) ┣━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓ Nakatomi no Mikeko (中臣御食子) Nakatomi no Kuniko (中臣国子) Nakatomi no Nukateko (中臣糠手子) ┃ ┃ ┃ ┃ Second Branch of Nakatomi clan (中臣氏二門) Third Branch of Nakatomi clan (中臣氏三門) ┣━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓ Fujiwara no Kamatari (藤原鎌足, 614–669) Nakatomi no Hisata (中臣久多) Nakatomi no Tareme (中臣垂目) ┃ ┃ Fujiwara clan (藤原氏) First Branch of Nakatomi clan (中臣氏一門) See also Kogo Shūi—a record of the conflict between the Nakatomi and Inbe clans. References Aristocracy of Classical Japan Japanese clans Buddhism in the Asuka period