Due to his status as the head of the sole remaining courtier / warrior clan, Kiyomori was in a unique position to manipulate the court rivalry between the retired sovereign Go-Shirakawa and his son, Nijo tenno ( tenno-sovereign ).

Kōgō Fujiwara Masuko ( 1140 – 1201 ) was the wife of Emperor Konoe ; and after his death, she married Emperor Nijo.

A merger of municipalities was implemented on January 1, 2010 ; Maebaru and two towns of the Itoshima District, Nijo and Shima, merged to form the new City of Itoshima, Itoshima District ceased to exist.

One of the main architects who designed and directed the building of the castle was Nakai Masakiyo, who was previously involved in the construction of the Nijo, Fushimi, Edo, and Sunpu castles.

Due to his connection with the Shogun, Zeami was provided with a classical education by court statesman and poet Nijo Yoshimoto.

Nijo was renowned for his skill as a Renga and taught Zeami about Literature, Poetry, and Philosophy.

This was the first Imperial progress since Go-Mizunoo visited Nijo Castle more than 230 years before.

This was the first Imperial progress since Emperor Go-Mizunoo visited Nijo Castle more than 230 years before ; and no Emperor had visited Kamo since Emperor Go-Daigo honored both shrines in Kemmu 1 ( 1334 ).

Lady Nijo was a member of the powerful Fujiwara Nijo Family.

The name " Nijo " was given to her at the court: it was common practice at the time to designate court ladies by street names, and " Nijo " (" Second Avenue ") designates a high rank.

However, she died shortly after Nijo was born, and Go-Fukakusa turned his affections to Nijo.

Ultimately, it was due to Higashi-nijō's request that Nijo was expelled from the court in 1283.

Agent X ( Nijo Minamiyori, alias Alex Hayden ) is a fictional mercenary whose adventures have been published by Marvel Comics.

After Black Swan downloaded a mental virus into Deadpool's brain, the mercenary came for both Swan and Nijo at the Swan's castle in Germany.

By this period, a number of clans had fallen by the wayside, leaving the Reizei and the Nijo family ; the former stood for " progressive " approaches, the varied use of the " ten styles " and novelty, while the latter conservatively hewed to already established norms and the " ushin " ( deep feelings ) style that dominated courtly poetry.

It consisted a series of low-level buildings, connected by corridors and congregating around various gardens, courtyards or lying detached, similar to the structures that can be seen in Nijo Castle in Kyoto today.

The Towazugatari begins in 1271, when Nijo, aged 14, is given by her father to Go-Fukakusa as a concubine.

She made her breakthrough on Top Girls by Caryl Churchill, created at the Royal Court in London and later transferred to The Public Theater in New York: her performance as Lady Nijo, a 13th century Japanese concubine, won her an Obie, her first award.

Black Swan psionically acquired Deadpool's healing factor but accidentally made contact with Nijo and personal traits had been mixed around.

Swan had given also Nijo's corpse Deadpool's regenerative powers ( restoring him to a form of life 5 minutes after his death ), as well as part of his personality, while Nijo also gained Swan's firearms talents, ambition, some of his refined tastes, preferences and biases, and also the bodily scarring and outrage he'd received from Deadpool throwing him face first into a white hot fireplace griddle at his home.

Eventually, the Nijo family became defunct, leading to the ascendancy of the " liberal " Reizei family.

The Japanese word go has also been translated to mean the " second one ;" and in some older sources, this emperor may be identified as " Nijō, the second ," or as " Nijo II.

In 1565, Hisahide, and Miyoshi Yoshitsugu laid siege against a collection of buildings ( that would later become Nijo Castle ) where Yoshiteru lived.

Matsumoto, Kumamoto and Himeji ( popularly known as the White Heron castle ) are excellent examples of the castles of the period, while Nijo Castle in Kyōto is an example of castle architecture blended with that of an imperial palace, to produce a style that is more in keeping with the Chinese influence of previous centuries.

File: Nijo Castle. jpg | Ninomaru Palace within Nijo Castle, Kyoto

The play is famous for its dreamlike opening sequence in which Marlene meets famous women from history, including Pope Joan, who, disguised as a man, is said to have been pope between 854-856 ; the explorer Isabella Bird ; Dull Gret the harrower of Hell ; Lady Nijo, the Japanese mistress of an emperor and later a Buddhist nun ; and Patient Griselda, the patient wife from The Clerk's Tale in Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales.

Lady Nijo is a thirteenth century Japanese concubine who enters the play near the beginning of act one and proceeds to tell her tale.

Lady Nijo recalls how she came to meet the ex-Emperor of Japan, and her encounter with him.

The Palace's Suzaku-mon Gate is walking distance from JR Nijo Station.

There, he destroyed his own home, and possibly the Shogun's Nijo Palace as well, blaming it on ashigaru in his diary.

After years of travelling, around 1304 – 7 she wrote an autobiographical novel, Towazugatari ( literally " An Unasked-For Tale ", commonly translated into English as The Confessions of Lady Nijo ), the work for which she is known today, and which is also the only substantial source of information on her life.

There was a little blood on the hem of her dress, for the assassin had slashed Miss Harris's companion, Major Rathbone, with a knife.

How was he to suspect that an assassin had been lurking somewhere across the street waiting for just such a chance??

Her reputed last words, uttered as the assassin was about to strike, were " Smite my womb ", the implication here being she wished to be destroyed first in that part of her body that had given birth to so " abominable a son.

The word " assassin " was derived from Hasan-i Sabbah and his Assassins | Assassin's Order of Nizari Ismailism.

In 1192, Conrad of Montferrat, the de facto King of Jerusalem, was killed by an assassin.

Liaquat Ali Khan, the first Prime Minister of Pakistan, was assassinated by Saad Akbar, a lone assassin, in 1951.

Thomas P. " Boston " Corbett ( 1832 – presumed dead September 1, 1894 ) was the Union Army soldier who shot and killed Abraham Lincoln's assassin, John Wilkes Booth.

Corbett was a member of the 16th New York Cavalry Regiment sent, on April 24, 1865, to apprehend John Wilkes Booth, the assassin of Abraham Lincoln, who was still at large.

In his official statement, Corbett claimed he shot Booth because he thought Lincoln's assassin was preparing to use his weapons.

The seventh assassin escaped to Montenegro where he was arrested.

He attended as operating surgeon when President Garfield was fatally wounded by the bullet of an assassin in 1881.

Contentious issues include Egypt's signing of the Camp David Accords with Israel in 1979, its support for Iraq in Iran's eight-year conflict, the Islamic Republic's hailing of Khalid Islambouli, the late President Anwar Sadat's assassin as a religious hero, seeing as there was both a street and mural named after him ( however, the honorer was changed to Muhammad al-Durrah, the 12-year-old Palestinian boy shot and killed during the outset of the Second Intifada ), and close Egyptian relations with the United States, and most of the Western European countries.

The assassin, Nathuram Godse, was a Hindu nationalist with links to the extremist Hindu Mahasabha, who held Gandhi responsible for weakening India by insisting upon a payment to Pakistan.

The assassin, Nathuram Godse, was a Hindu nationalist with links to the extremist Hindu Mahasabha, who held Gandhi responsible for weakening India by insisting upon a payment to Pakistan.

Others state that he was assassinated in the evening after the battle at his tent by the assassin who was admitted to ask a special favour.

On 27 July 1981, he was shot 5 times from a distance of around two meters in a Warsaw Victoria ( now Sofitel ) hotel coffee shop, but survived the attack, chasing his would-be assassin down to the coffee shop's front entrance before collapsing ;

After Hasdrubal's assassination by a Celtic assassin, Hamilcar's young sons took over, with Hannibal becoming the strategus of Iberia, although this decision was not undisputed in Carthage.

A few days later, while Saladin was resting in one of his captain's tents, an assassin rushed forward at him and struck at his head with a knife.

It has been claimed that during the gruesome torture of Balthasar Gérard ( the assassin of William of Orange ) in 1584, the song was sung by the

While another doctor called Guncelin, recognizing the symptoms of poisoning, was able to rescue the Duke from an imminent death, causing severe vomiting and cleansing the body ; but the assassin wasn't discovered, and this time put the poison in the knife used by Henry IV to cut his bread.

Lawrence Teeter, attorney for convicted assassin Sirhan Sirhan, believed Sirhan was under the influence of hypnosis when he fired his weapon at Robert F. Kennedy in 1968.

Leon Czolgosz, the assassin of President William McKinley, was also a member of Oneida for a brief time.