Konoe family

[1] During the following Nanboku-chō period, a succession dispute of Konoe emerged, between Tsunetada and his cousin Mototsugu – they served in rival courts, the Southern and the Northern Court respectively; later, when the Southern court lost its political influence in 1392, records of Tsunetada's descendants became lost and have stayed lost ever since.

He decided to adopt one of his nephews, who was also the fourth son of Emperor Go-Yozei.

The child was renamed Konoe Nobuhiro (1599–1649), who later married Nobutada's daughter.

[11][12] From there the Konoe lineage was renewed and continued until 1956, when the eldest son of Prime Minister Fumimaro Konoe,[13] Fumitaka, died in the Soviet Union[14] without a legitimate male heir.

[18] [19][20] The Tokiwai family (常磐井家, Tokiwai-ke) was founded by a son of Konoe Tadahiro, Gyōki (尭熈), who was the lead Buddhist monk of Senju-ji, and he took the family name "Tokiwai" since 1872.