The Kajiwara clan was one of the Kamakura clan whose family lineage stretched back to the Bando Hachi Heishi (the Eight Taira clans of the East) and was part of the same family as the Oba clan.
梶原氏は坂東八平氏の流れをくむ鎌倉氏の一族であり、大庭氏とは同族である。