Nata family
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The Nata family were hereditary high priests of Usa Hachiman Shrine, and prominent local lords in the Kunisaki peninsula of Bungo province in the medieval period.
Following the establishment of Nata Shrine by Usa Kimimoto in 729 as a branch shrine of Usa Hachiman, the Nata became the designated house of the high priests of Usa Hachiman for the succeeding nearly nine centuries.
One notable member of the Nata family was a daughter of Nata Akimoto known only as "Jezebel" (d. 1587), an epithet given to her by the Jesuits for her active opposition to the spread of Christianity.
References
- Haruko Nawata Ward, Women Religious Leaders in Japan's Christian Century, Ashgate (2009), 120.
