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The Kamakura period of 13th century Japan, in which Nichiren was born-was characterised by natural disasters, internal strife and confusion within Mahayana schools about whether: "... the world had further entered a period of decline " referring to the Latter Day of the Law.
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There have been six non-imperial families who have controlled Japanese emperors: the Soga ( 530s – 645 ), the Fujiwara ( 850s – 1070 ), the Taira ( for a relatively short period ), the Minamoto ( and Kamakura bakufu ) ( 1192 – 1333 ), the Ashikaga ( 1336 – 1565 ) and the Tokugawa ( 1603 – 1867 ).
Late Middle Japanese covers the years from 1185 to 1600, and is normally divided into two sections, roughly equivalent to the Kamakura period and the Muromachi period, respectively.
By the 15th century, the Sengoku Jidai civil war erupted, and the vast need for swords together with the ferocity of the fighting caused the highly artistic techniques of the Kamakura period ( known as the " Golden Age of Swordmaking ") to be abandoned in favor of more utilitarian and disposable weapons.
Since the earliest samurai government in Japan, during the Kamakura period ( 1185 – 1333 ), sword fighting, together with horse riding and archery, were the main martial pursuits of the military clans.
His descendants established themselves in the Iwami province as local administrators of Mino, and from the Kamakura period became part of the regional warrior caste under the name of the Masuda clan.
Nichiren ( 日蓮 ) ( February 16, 1222 – October 13, 1282 ) was a Buddhist monk who lived during the Kamakura period ( 1185 – 1333 ) in Japan.
After the Heian period, during the Kamakura period and later, renga, a form of collaborative linked poetry, began to develop.
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* The Kamakura period ends and the Kemmu restoration begins in Japan.
There were emperors who abdicated and cloistered emperors before and after the Heian period, but the cloistered rule system usually refers to the governing system put in place by Emperor Shirakawa in 1086 and remained in force until the rise of the Kamakura shogunate in 1192.
Usually the establishment of Kamakura Bakufu marks the beginning of Kamakura period.
At least at the early Kamakura period, Chiten kept substantial power over many important decisions.
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* The Heian period ends and the Kamakura period begins in Japan.
The shinobi proper, a specially trained group of spies and mercenaries, appeared in the Sengoku or " warring states " period, in the 15th century, but antecedents may have existed in the 14th century, and possibly even in the 12th century ( Heian or early Kamakura era ).
The shogun Minamoto no Yoritomo held yabusame in the area in the early Kamakura period.
During the Kamakura period ( 1185-1333 ) the Japanese sword smiths achieved the highest level of technical excellence and because the war between two influential families, the Minamoto and the Taira, made it possible to test and evaluate swords under the severest of conditions.
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By the 13th century, when the Kamakura Shogunate ruled the nation and tea and the luxuries associated with it became a kind of status symbol among the warrior class, and there arose parties wherein contestants could win extravagant prizes for guessing the best quality tea — that grown in Kyoto, deriving from the seeds that Eisai brought from China.
The Mongols, who controlled China at the time under the Yuan Dynasty, attempted to invade Japan twice in the 13th century, marking the key military events of the Kamakura period, and two of the very few invasion attempts upon Japan in the 2nd millennium.
From the middle of the Kamakura period to the end of the Nanboku-chō period, from roughly the 13th to 14th centuries, the district was controlled by the Hino and Kamonamochi clans.
* 1199 ( Kenkyū 10, 13th day of the 1st month ): Shogun Yoritomo dies at age 53 in Kamakura.
In the beginning of the 13th century, Emperor Go-Toba found his attempts at political maneuvers blocked by the Kamakura shogunate.
The Nitta clan rose to importance in the early 13th century ; they controlled Kozuke Province, and had little influence in Kamakura, the capital of the Ashikaga shogunate, because their ancestor, Minamoto no Yoshishige had not joined his fellow clansmen in the Genpei War a century earlier.
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The name Kamakura appears in the Kojiki of 712, and is also mentioned in the c. 8th century Man ' yōshū as well as in the Wamyō Ruijushō of 938.
This wooden Nio | Kongorikishi statue was created during the Kamakura shogunate during 14th century Japan.
Yoritomo thus established the supremacy of the warrior samurai caste and the first bakufu ( shogunate ) at Kamakura, beginning the feudal age in Japan which lasted until the mid-19th century.
When the shogunate took power in the 12th century and the administrative capital moved to Kamakura, more forms of Buddhism arrived.
The 12th century conflicts, particularly the Genpei War, and the establishment of the Kamakura shogunate that followed, mark the rise of the samurai class over the court nobility ( kuge ).
Kamakura would remain for one century the political capital of the Kantō region, but its supremacy was over.
During the Kamakura period, Fujisawa was the setting for a number of battles to overthrown the Kamakura shogunate as mentioned in the late 14th century Taiheiki.
Disaffection towards the Hōjō-led Kamakura regime appeared among the warriors towards the end of the thirteenth century.
* Mandala of the Womb World Japan, Kamakura period, 13th-14th century Dharmapala Thangka Centre
These were two different fortifications on Mount Kongo, where the Battle of Chihaya Castle and the Battle of Akasaka occurred in the 14th century, during the late Kamakura period.
In Japan, the ancient period can be taken to end with the rise of feudalism in the Kamakura period in the 12-13th century.
was a 14th century samurai who fought for Emperor Go-Daigo in his attempt to wrest rulership of Japan away from the Kamakura shogunate and is remembered as the ideal of samurai loyalty.
Over the ensuing centuries, the ravages of time and the elements slowly destroyed the buildings, until by the beginning of the Kamakura Period in the late 12th century there was practically nothing left above ground.
Go Seigen and Kitani played in the Kamakura jubango, from 1939, the most celebrated jubango of the century.
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In fact, from 1192 to 1867, the shoguns, or their shikken regents in Kamakura ( 1203 – 1333 ), were the de facto rulers of Japan, although they were nominally appointed by the Emperor.
Other instances, such as Emperor Go-Toba's 1221 rebellion against the Kamakura shogunate and the 1336 Kemmu Restoration under Emperor Go-Daigo, show the power struggle between the Imperial House and the military governments of Japan.
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* 1147 – Minamoto no Yoritomo, Japanese founder and the first shogun of the Kamakura Shogunate of Japan ( d. 1199 )
* 1293 – An earthquake strikes Kamakura, Kanagawa, Japan, killing about 30, 000.
He left Seichō-ji shortly thereafter to study in Kamakura and several years later traveled to western Japan for more in-depth study in the Kyoto – Nara area, where Japan's major centers of Buddhist learning were located.
* 1498 – The 1498 Meiō Nankaidō earthquake generates a tsunami that washes away the building housing the statue of the Great Buddha at Kōtoku-in in Kamakura, Kanagawa, Japan ; since then the Buddha has sat in the open air.
3 Shogunates of Japan: Minamoto no Yoritomo, the first shogun ( 1192 – 1199 ) of the Kamakura shogunate
Minamoto no Yoritomo seized certain powers from the central government and aristocracy and established a feudal system based in Kamakura in which the private military, the samurai, gained some political powers while the Emperors of Japan and the aristocracy in Japan remained the de jure rulers.
* 1185: Beginning in this year the Kamakura Shogunate deprives the emperor of Japan of political power.
* Minamoto no Yoritomo, shōgun of Japan, founder of the Kamakura Shogunate
* Hōjō Yoshitoki, regent of the Kamakura shogunate of Japan ( b. 1163 )
* September 25 – Prince Morikuni, 9th Kamakura shogun of Japan ( b. 1301 )
* 1268 – Kublai Khan sends an emissary to the Kamakura Shogunate of Japan demanding an acknowledgment of souzerainty and payment of tribute ; the Japanese refuse, starting a diplomatic back-and-forth lasting until the Mongols attempt to invade in 1274.
Though Kamakura Bakufu took over the police force and ruled Eastern Japan, the authority of Emperor and retired Emperors remained.
* Hōjō Mototoki becomes Kamakura shogun of Japan.
* May 26 – An earthquake in Kamakura, Japan kills an estimated 30, 000.
* The Hikitsuke, a judicial organ of the Kamakura and Muromachi shogunates of Japan, is established.
* Kublai Khan sends an emissary to the Kamakura Shogunate of Japan demanding an acknowledgment of suzerainty and payment of tribute ; the Japanese refuse, starting a diplomatic back-and-forth lasting until the Mongols attempt to invade in 1274.
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