Narukami Family

The **Narukami Family** (鳴神家, *Narukami-ke*?) is one of the oldest continuous sorcerer lineages, having their origins sometime during the early Heian period, around 970 AD. Due to their ancient lineage and their resulting prestige, they are considered one of the Five Great Sorcerer Families in the universe of *Jujutsu Kaisen: Cursed Castle Avidya*.

## Background

As previously stated, the Narukami lineage can trace its origins to the early Heian period around 970 AD. However, records state that that family could have possibly started a century earlier in 830 but this claim is heavily disputed. The generally accepted first head of the Narukami family is **Fujiwara no Tsunayoshi** who founded the Narukami family sometime between 968 and 973, dying in 983. Prior to his death, Tsunayoshi had built a large mansion in the area that would become the modern city of Asahikawa, designating it and the area around it to be the territory of himself and his descendants. At the time, the island of Hokkaido was populated by the Ainu people who regularly intermingled with the "outsiders", forging an unbreakable relationship.

Over time, the family grew in prestige and overshadowed all other sorcerer families that decided to make Hokkaido their home. It was only during the Warring States Period that an "organization" of sorts consisting of jujutsu sorcerers came into being and the Narukami were among those selected to one of the five family leaders of the organization, the others being the Arai family, Gojo family, Kamo family, and the Zenin family. As the Narukami had already established almost complete control over Hokkaido, the entire island was given to the family to both govern and protect; the other four great families will not interfere in the affairs of Hokkaido unless absolutely necessary.

The area around Asahikawa was populated by non-sorcerer outsiders during the Meiji period (1868-1912) and they have mingled with the Narukami family which had grown to astounding sizes; most, if not all, of the people living on the island prior to the immigration of outsiders being related to the Narukami lineage in some form or another. The main Narukami family consists of the direct descendants of Fujiwara no Tsunayoshi with some of his direct descendants "branching off" of the main lineage to form seven branch families (they came into existence at differing times but there are currently seven). Alongside these seven branch families, the Narukami lineage had also gathered outsider lineages, that is, sorcerer families that had emigrated to Hokkaido and pledged their allegiance to the Narukami family. There are currently a total of five of these families for a grand total of twelve families that serve directly under the Narukami family.

## Abilities

As one of the oldest continuous lineages of sorcerers in Japan, the Narukami family has had a considerably large amount of time to hone and refine their arts and techniques. Their most notable feat is the fact that they are the first family to discover how to create positive cursed energy by inverting the negative energy birthed by cursed energy. This is a feat thought to have been impossible in sorcery but the family founder, Fujiwara no Tsunayoshi, was capable of it. With him as the first, his descendants also inherited the ability although it was strongly randomized on whoever can manage the feat for the first five generations. After the sixth generation, most Narukami clan members were able to easily invert their cursed energy and this was a feat that made their family a prized commodity in teams made up of sorcerers. It is the Narukami family that most sorcerers turn to for the healing of wounds and the family also makes use of their powers to attend to non-sorcerers. The Narukami family has hospitals personally operated by them all throughout Hokkaido and they provide the best medical services the island has to offer at a reasonable price.

Main article: Narukami Shintō-ryū
Starting in the late fifteenth century, the Narukami family adopted a unique fighting style, a comprehensive school of swordsmanship known as the Narukami Shintō-ryū. Founded by Hidehisa Narukami in 1456, six years prior to his death, it is the sword style taught only to the Narukami family and its branch families. It is a very effective fighting style to employ in missions and is prized to be one of the top fighting styles in sorcerer society; in fact, by popular vote, the Narukami Shintō-ryū has established multiple dojos throughout the country to teach the sword style to other sorcerers (however, most of them aren't taught any of the twelve *kata* of the school to preserve the secrecy of the Narukami family's secret techniques).

Main article: Thunder Advent
The founder, Fujiwara no Tsunayoshi, exhibited an Innate Technique, known as Thunder Advent, and it was passed down to his descendants, thereby, becoming the lineages Inherited Technique. As it says in its name, it is the ability to manipulate lightning, or more accurately, electricity. This can be used for a multitude of jobs, including for battle, for entertainment, and for medicinal purposes. In fact, there are so many ways in which the Narukami family employs their Inherited Technique, some members, who aren't cut out to be sorcerers, employ the ability to earn money in other ways, like entertaining non-sorcerers in magic shows.

## Known Members

### Leaders

According to tradition, the historical leaders of the Narukami clan are as follows. The parentheses give the dates in which said family head reigned; these dates do not reflect their full ages. With the exception of Tomoe Narukami, the 15th family head, Riyoko Narukami, the 18th family head, Hosomi Narukami, the 21st family head, Mutsume Narukami, the 22nd family head, and Kazuha Narukami, the 27th family head, all of the leaders have been male.

The list has been made collapsible with only the current family head viewable by default.

* Fujiwara no Tsunayoshi - 1st family head (968 or 973-983)
* Fujiwara no Yoshinobu - 2nd family head (984-1000)
* Masamune Narukami - 3rd family head (1000-1054)
* Hidemitsu Narukami - 4th family head (1055-1096)
* Haruchika Narukami - 5th family head (1097-1138)
* Genjiro Narukami - 6th family head (1139-1175)
* Harunobu Narukami - 7th family head (1176-1207)
* Eishun Narukami - 8th family head (1208-1246)
* Hirokatsu Narukami - 9th family head (1247-1300)
* Hiromasa Narukami - 10th family head (1301-1348)
* Hiroshige Narukami - 11th family head (1349-1387)
* Hidetaka Narukami - 12th family head (1388-1411)
* Hidehisa Narukami - 13th family head (1412-1461)
* Hidetsugu Narukami - 14th family head (1462-1498)
* Tomoe Narukami - 15th family head (1499-1538)
* Kagemori Narukami - 16th family head (1539-1573)
* Katsuhisa Narukami - 17th family head (1574-1611)
* Riyoko Narukami - 18th family head (1612-1655)
* Kanehira Narukami - 19th family head (1656-1701)
* Ienaga Narukami - 20th family head (1702-1713)
* Hosomi Narukami - 21st family head (1714-1752)
* Mutsume Narukami - 22nd family head (1753-1797)
* Jin'ichi Narukami - 23rd family head (1798-1831)
* Katsunaga Narukami - 24th family head (1832-1879)
* Kanematsu Narukami - 25th family head (1880-1917)
* Kazuhiro Narukami - 26th family head (1918-1945)
* Kazuha Narukami 27th family head (1946-1971)

- Hidenobu Narukami - current leader, the 28th family head (1971-present)

#### Designated Heirs

* Sonoka Narukami - 29th designated heiress

### Other Members

* Eita Narukami
* Hideki Narukami
* Junpei Narukami - son of Hidenobu and is to be the 29th family head but was passed over in favor of his daughter, Sonoka
* Kanae Narukami - Married into the family; née Tachikawa
* Mafuyu Narukami
* Mahiru Narukami
* Shoutaro Narukami
* Yumemi Narukami - twin sister of the 29th designated heiress

### Branch Families

#### Sakuraba Family

* Azusa Sakuraba - personal retainer to Sonoka Narukami