The Asukai family, a branch of the Nanba line of the Northern House of the Fujiwara clan, was the Urin family (the fourth highest family status for court nobles and holding military ranks) who specialized in waka poetry and kemari for generations.
飛鳥井家は藤原北家難波家の流れをくむ羽林家の一つで代々和歌、蹴鞠を家技にした。