List of kuge families

List of Kuge families include the high level bureaucrats and nobles (kuge) in the Japanese Imperial court. This list is based on the lineage of the family (the clan from which the family derives, such as the Minamoto, Fujiwara, or Taira) and the kakaku (Kakaku (Japan), rank). The kuge along with the daimyō made up the nobility (kazoku) of post-Meiji Restoration Japan. The kazoku was abolished shortly after World War II.

The kakaku consists of six ranks, from highest to lowest, they are Sekke (摂家), Seigake (清華家), Daijinke (大臣家), Urinke (羽林家), Meika (Japan) (名家), and Hanke (Japan) (半家).

Seigake

 * Hirohata　廣幡家
 * Koga　久我家

Daijinke

 * Nakanoin　中院家

Urinke

 * Ayanokōji　綾小路家
 * Chigusa　千種家
 * Higashikuze　東久世家
 * Iwakura　岩倉家
 * Kuze　久世家
 * Niwata　庭田家
 * Ōhara　大原家
 * Otagi　愛宕家
 * Rokujō　六條家
 * Uematsu　植松家
 * Umedani　梅溪家

Hanke

 * Itsutsuji　五辻家
 * Jikōji　慈光寺家
 * Takenouchi　竹内家

Fujiwara clan
Originally, the Fujiwara four families (藤原四家) were branches established by the four sons of Fujiwara no Fuhito: Nanke, Hokke, Shikike, and Kyōke. Hokke later became the most successful out of the four families, and there are five main branches from Hokke, known as the Sekke, otherwise known as Five regent houses:


 * Ichijō
 * Konoe
 * Kujō
 * Nijō
 * Takatsukasa

And other cadet branches of Fujiwara, becoming one of Kuge, include:

Seigake

 * Daigo 醍醐家
 * Imadegawa (renamed Kikutei)　今出川（菊亭）家
 * Kasannoin 花山院家
 * Ōinomikado　大炊御門家
 * Saionji　西園寺家
 * Sanjō　三條家
 * Tokudaiji　德大寺家

Daijinke

 * Sanjōnishi　三條西家
 * Ōgimachinosanjō (renamed Saga) 正親町三條（嵯峨）家
 * Nakanoin　中院家

Urinke

 * Aburanokōji　油小路家
 * Anegakōji　姉小路家
 * Ano　阿野家
 * Asukai　飛鳥井家
 * Fujitani　藤谷家
 * Hachijō　八條家
 * Hanazono　花園家
 * Hashimoto　橋本家
 * Higashizono　東園家
 * Higuchi　樋口家
 * Hinonishi　日野西家
 * Horikawa　堀河家
 * Imaki　今城家
 * Irie　入江家
 * Ishiyama　石山家
 * Iwano　石野家
 * Jimyōin　持明院家
 * Kawabata　河鰭家
 * Kazahaya　風早家
 * Kushige　櫛笥家
 * Machijiri　町尻家
 * Matsunaga 松永家
 * Matsunoki　松木家
 * Mibu　壬生家
 * Minase　水無瀬家
 * Mushanokōji　武者小路家
 * Nakayama　中山家
 * Nakazono　中園家
 * Nanba　難波家
 * Nishiōji　西大路家
 * Nishiyotsutsuji　西四辻家
 * Nonomiya　野宮家
 * Ōgimachi　正親町家
 * Ogura　小倉家
 * Omiya　大宮家
 * Oshikōji　押小路家
 * Reizei (Reizen, Kaminoreizei)　冷泉家
 * Rokkaku　六角家
 * Sakurai　櫻井家
 * Shichijō family　七條家
 * Shigenoi　滋野井家
 * Shijō　四條家
 * Shimizudani 清水谷家
 * Shimonoreizei 下冷泉家
 * Sono　園家
 * Sonoike　園池家
 * Takamatsu　高松家
 * Takano　高野家
 * Takaoka　高丘家
 * Umezono　梅園家
 * Uratsuji　裏辻家
 * Washio　鷲尾家
 * Yabu　藪家
 * Yamamoto　山本家
 * Yamanoi　山井家
 * Yamashina　山科家
 * Yotsutsuji　四辻家

Meika

 * Bōjō family　坊城家
 * Hamuro　葉室家
 * Hino　日野家
 * Hinonishi　日野西家
 * Hirohashi　廣橋家
 * Honami　穂波家
 * Ikegami　池尻家
 * Kadenokōji 勘解由小路家
 * Kajūji 勧修寺家
 * Kanroji　甘露寺家
 * Karasumaru　烏丸家
 * Kitanokōji　北小路家
 * Madenokōji　万里小路家
 * Mimurodo　三室戸家
 * Nakamikado　中御門家
 * Okazaki　岡崎家
 * Seikanji　清閑寺家
 * Shibayama　芝山家
 * Takeya　竹屋家
 * Toyama　外山家
 * Toyooka　豊岡家
 * Tsutsumi　堤家
 * Umenokōji　梅小路家
 * Uramatsu　裏松家
 * Yanagiwara　柳原家

Hanke

 * Karahashi　唐橋家
 * Shirakawa　白川家
 * Takakura　高倉家
 * Tominokōji　富小路家
 * Nishikikōji　錦小路家

Meika

 * Hiramatsu　平松家
 * Katano　交野家
 * Nagatani　長谷家

Hanke

 * Iwai　石井家
 * Nishinotōin　西洞院家

Hanke

 * Fujii 藤井家 (from Urabe clan)
 * Fujinami 藤波家 (from Ōnakatomi clan)
 * Fushihara　伏原家 (from Kiyohara clan)
 * Funahashi　船橋家 (from Kiyohara clan)
 * Gojō　五條家 (from Sugawara clan)
 * Hagiwara　萩原家 (from Urabe clan)
 * Higashibōjō　東坊城家 (from Sugawara clan)
 * Karahashi　唐橋家 (from Sugawara clan)
 * Kitanokoji　北小路家 (from Oe clan)
 * Kiyooka　清岡家 (from Sugawara clan)
 * Kurahashi　倉橋家 (from Abe clan)
 * Kuwabara　桑原家 (from Sugawara clan)
 * Nishigori　錦織家 (from Urabe clan)
 * Sawa　澤家 (from Kiyohara clan)
 * Takatsuji　高辻家 (from Sugawara clan)
 * Tsuchimikado　土御門家 (from Abe clan)
 * Yoshida　吉田家 (from Urabe clan)