The Fushihara family was a branch of the Kuge noble's house of the Funabashi family that had traditionally produced Confucianists serving at the Imperial Court, and the Fushihara family also hereditarily studied Confucianism.
伏原家は代々儒学を持って朝廷に仕える公家船橋家の分家筋にあたり、伏原家も儒学を家学とした。