
	Where results make sense

Topic: Battle of Uji (1180)

Related Topics

Battle of Sunomata

Battle of Fujigawa

Battle of Yahagigawa

Battle of Kurikara

Siege of Nara

Battle of Ishibashiyama

Genpei War

Miidera

Siege of Hiuchi

Hogen Rebellion

Taira no Noritsune

Battle of Uji

Heiji Rebellion

Minamoto no Yoritomo

Kamakura shogunate

	JAANUS / Ujigawa no kassen　宇治川の合戦
		Both battles are recounted in HEIKE MONOGATARI 平家物語 (The Tale of The Heike), and GENPEI SEISUIKI 源平盛衰記 (The Rise and Fall of The Genji and The Heike), 1) Also known as the "Battle at the Uji Bridge" Ujibashi no tatakai 宇治橋の戦い.
		In the fourth month of 1180 the prince Mochihito 以仁 (1151-80) and his men fled from the capital to Miidera 三井寺 and then to *Uji where they hid in the Byoudouin 平等院.
		The "Battle of the Bridge" was illustrated both as one part of the screens of Genpei battles, and as the sole subject of works such as the anonymous Ujibashi kassen byoubu 宇治橋合戦屏風, and *ukiyo-e 浮世絵 prints.
	www.aisf.or.jp /~jaanus/deta/u/ujigawanokassen.htm (330 words)

	JAPAN, (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The most important of the uji were the Omi, who claimed divine descent, and the Muraji, who were said to be descended from nobles of the pre-Yamato era.
		In 1156 a civil war was waged between the forces of two rival emperors, and, after a second war in 1159–60, the Taira crushed the Minamoto and seized control of Japan from the Fujiwara.
		The tide of battle began to change in 1942, when an Allied naval and air force contained a Japanese invasion fleet in the Battle of the Coral Sea between New Guinea and the Solomon Islands.
	www.history.com /encyclopedia.do?vendorId=FWNE.fw..ja009600.a (14727 words)

	The Age of the Samurai - Gempei Wars 1180-1185
		It was a series of battles fought for the control of the imperial court and the ultimate victors were the Minamoto who annihilated the Taira and established their clan head, Yoritomo, as shogun and consigning the emperor to nothing more than a symbolic role until the mid-19th century.
		After losing the battle of Ishibashiyama he withdrew to Kamakura where he established a military base and sent his capable generals out to fight the war, which was wise considering his poor grasp of military matters.
		The ensuing naval battle was one of the most decisive in Japanese history and began with a long range archery duel.
	www.taots.co.uk /content/view/36/30 (1711 words)

	Heike Monogatari
		Rewards, both monetary and honorary, were given in the Gempei battles to soldiers who excelled, either by killing a high-ranking opponent or by being the first to charge into enemy lines.
		The famous crossing of the Uji River, in which two brave Minamoto warriors on horseback charge into the high waters, competing to be the first to reach the Taira on the opposite banks, has been depicted by several of the warrior print artists.
		The Battle of Dan-no-Ura - The Drowning of the Former Emperor
	www.artelino.com /articles/heike-monogatari.asp (2751 words)

	HAVOC 20 PEL - Saturday 2:00pm-6:00pm
		Battle Mechs are 30 meter high robots armed with guns, lasers and missiles.
		Historically, the battle resulted in a lackadaisical long-range artillery duel between the two squadrons, with neither side keen to engage the other closely.
		British convoy in the Mediterranean is attacked by surface forces in a night battle.
	havoc.battlegroupboston.org /H20PELHTML/PEL300.html (619 words)

	Japan - Search View - MSN Encarta
		The most important of the uji were the Muraji, longtime vassals of the Yamato court, and the Omi, who had declared their fealty during the Yamato rise to power: government officials were drawn from both groups.
		Confiscations of land after the Battle of Sekigahara had left the Tokugawa as the richest daimyo family, with roughly a quarter of the country’s land owned by them or their immediate vassals.
		Daimyo were graded according to their relationship to the Tokugawa or their actions at Sekigahara, and the most suspect of them, such as the great western fiefs of Satsuma and Choshu, were watched over by strategically placed loyalist fiefs.
	uk.encarta.msn.com /text_761566679__1/Japan.html (18544 words)

	Japan - MSN Encarta
		The Taira leader, Kiyomori Taira, was named chief minister in 1167, and, modelling his policies on those of the Fujiwara, filled court posts with his family and married his daughter to an imperial prince, their infant son Antoku becoming Emperor in 1180.
		In the same year a surviving Minamoto leader, Yoritomo Minamoto, set up his headquarters at Kamakura in eastern Japan and started an uprising, which soon drove the Taira from the capital.
		The civil war lasted for five years, ending in 1185 with the naval battle of Dannoura, near present-day Shimonoseki on the Inland Sea, and the extirpation of the Taira.
	uk.encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761566679_10____77/Japan.html (1717 words)

	Japan - MSN Encarta
		However, the uji controlled their own territories, and chieftains in remote parts of the country often challenged Yamato authority.
		In the 7th century the Yamato rulers embarked on a massive importation of Chinese political institutions, laws, and practices to strengthen their position.
		The ensuing civil war, known as the Gempei War, ended five years later in 1185 when the Taira forces were finally defeated at the Battle of Dannoura near the modern city of Shimonoseki on the Inland Sea.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761566679_15/Japan.html (2665 words)

	Japan - Printer-friendly - MSN Encarta
		By the time of the Battle of Sekigahara, several hundred thousand Japanese, including a number of daimyo in Kyūshū and western Japan, had become Roman Catholics.
		Many daimyo had survived military unification with their existing domains intact, while other domains were newly created by Ieyasu and his heirs.
		While Japanese armies won a series of early battles, the land war bogged down by early 1905.
	encarta.msn.com /text_761566679___69/Japan.html (16955 words)

	Battle of Fujigawa - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Uji (1180) – Nara – Ishibashiyama – Fujigawa – Sunomata – Yahagigawa – Hiuchi – Kurikara – Shinowara – Mizushima – Fukuryuji – Muroyama – Hojujiden – Uji (1184) – Awazu – Ichi-no-Tani – Kojima – Yashima –Dan-no-ura
		Attempting to recover quickly from his exile, and to rebuild his army, Minamoto no Yoritomo sent out messengers to recruit other families onto his side.
		Supposedly, in the night, the Taira mistook the sound of a flock of birds for that of a Minamoto surprise attack, and fled, with no actual battle taking place.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Battle_of_Fujigawa (173 words)

	[No title]
		Serving the uji was an occupational/ professional class called the be, who worked as farmers, scribes, traders, and manufacturers.
		Immigrants fit in among the uji and be, depending on their skills and wealth.
		The uji class was stripped of land and military power, but given official posts and stripends.
	members.rediff.com /mukeshonline/age_of_empires.txt (19088 words)

	Genpei War
		The ensuing battle took place just outside Kyoto and is called the first Battle of Uji.
		1180 Battle of Fujigawa - the Taira mistake a flock of waterfowl for a sneak attack by the Minamoto in the night, and retreat before any fighting occurs.
		Naval battle of Dan-no-Ura in 1185.1184 Battle of Awazu - Minamoto no Yoshinaka is defeated and killed by Yoshitsune and Noriyori.
	www.tagate.com /wars/page/genpei.shtml (537 words)

	Ospreysamurai.com - The samurai way of death
		After the battle of Yamazaki in 1582 Akechi Mitsutoshi performed the unprecedented act of committing seppuku and writing a poem on the door with the blood from his abdomen, using a brush.
		Once Nitta Yoshisada’s troops were in the city the battle became a fierce hand-to-hand struggle among the burning houses, while the Hojo forces were torn between holding the passes and resisting the new advance round the cape.
		When the battle was seen to be lost, the Hojo family and their closest retainers decided to die like true samurai, and the Taiheiki has preserved the gory record of their departure.
	www.ospreysamurai.com /samurai_death02.htm (5672 words)

	Age of Empires II: Age of Kings for PS2 on Gamerhelp.com
		The battle seesawed back and forth all day, but near dusk Harold was mortally wounded by an arrow in the eye.
		Beginning with Philip II in 1180, three superior rulers established France as one of the most important nations in Europe.
		The defeat at Chal?ns is considered one of the decisive battles of history, one that could have meant collapse of the Christian religion in Western Europe and perhaps domination of the area by Asian peoples.
	www.gamerhelp.com /pc/AgeofEmpiresIIAgeofKings/113408.shtml (14350 words)

	Gempei War
		In May 1180 Prince Mochihito, the son of Retired emperor Go-Shirakawa, issued a statement urging the Minamoto to rise against the Taira.
		While Mochihito would be killed in June and Minamoto Yorimasa crushed at the Battle of the Uji, a fire had been set.
		In a sense, the specifics of the Gempei War - the battles, armies, and tactics - were secondary to the political arena.
	www.samurai-archives.com /Gempeiwar.html (3906 words)

	Buddhism / tendai / sohei
		At the end of the 12th century, Japan was plunged into civil war, and so while the feuds between the temples did not end, they became submerged in larger events.
		In 1180, in one of the more famous battles in which sōhei participated, the monks of Miidera, along with a force of Minamoto samurai, tried to defend the bridge over the river Uji, and the Byōdōin temple behind it, from an attacking Taira force (see Battle of Uji (1180)).
		The naginata is the weapon most often associated with them, though in legend as well as history many warrior monks are known to have been proficient with everything from bow and arrow to tantō and wakizashi (dagger and shortsword).
	www.buddhism-guide.com /buddhism/sohei.htm (1410 words)

	The Age of the Samurai - Warrior Monk (Sohei) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		At the battle of Anegawa the various factions met but Oda was victorious.
		An armed guard of samurai barred their way at the northern gate led by Minamoto Yorimasa, who had a healthy respect for the religion of the monks', their sacred mikoshi and their prowess in battle.
		During the the fighting of the first battle of Uji in 1180 a lone warrior monk called Gochin no Tajima stood fast on the bridge his forces had dismantled earlier to prevent pursuit from the Taira samurai.
	www.taots.co.uk /content/view/32/27 (1881 words)

	The Samurai: A Brief History
		The clans who battled the emishi did so in part (we can assume) in the hopes of securing sizable rewards of land in the newly colonized areas, and to maintain these in the face of emishi resistance, arms would need to be kept.
		Outright battles between the Enryakuji and Mii-dera were common during the later Heian Period, and saw the later burned to the ground numerous times.
		The Minamoto headquarters were assaulted, and after a stiff battle Yoshitomo was forced to flee the capital and headed eastward.
	members.tripod.com /epathy/id217.htm (13047 words)

	View of Tea Shop from Uji Bridge (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The Uji Bridge is said to be one of the Three Famous Old Bridges of Japan.
		In 1180, at the Uji Bridge, there was a huge battle.
		From the time of the battle all of the Tsuen ancestors performed the jobs of bridge guardian and tea maker.
	www.shareatlanta.org /japan/UjiHistoryandTea/photos/photo3.html (90 words)

	The Dispatch - Serving the Lexington, NC - News
		In May of 1180, he sent out an appeal to other Minamoto leaders, and to temples and monasteries that Kiyomori had offended.
		The Genpei War wars began with the Battle of Uji in 1180.
		He then fastened his master's head to a rock and threw it into the Uji River so it could not be found.
	www.the-dispatch.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Minamoto_no_Yorimasa (319 words)

	Heian Era: 794-1192
		The Hoodo, or Phoenix Hall, at Uji, built in 1053.
		Minamoto vs. Taira in a sea battle with the Taira winning.
		This was a major sea battle with the Minamoto winning decisively.
	www.bookmice.net /darkchilde/japan/jh3.html (1040 words)

	History of Zen in Japan
		Zen after the Downfall of the Ho-Jo Regency.--Towards the end of the Ho-Jo period,[1] and after the downfall of the Regency in 1333, sanguinary battles were fought between the Imperialists and the rebels.
		Masa-shige's loyalty, wisdom, bravery, and prudence are not merely unique in the history of Japan, but perhaps in the history of man. The tragic tale about his parting with his beloved son, and his bravery shown at his last battle, never fail to inspire the Japanese with heroism.
		The heroic battles waged by these two great generals against each other are the flowers of the Japanese war-history.
	www.harvestfields.netfirms.com /ebook/etexts/28/03.htm (6326 words)

	The Aikido Center - Newletter
		As civilization advanced, farmers battling bandits to protect their food crops were transformed into personal armies loyal to land-holding clans.
		At the battle of Ichi-no tani in 1184, armor-grappling sounded like techniques of Aikido, “they grappled so fiercely that both fell from their horsesone gripped his adversary and pinned him down so that he could not rise.
		Named Jomyo, he fought at the First Battle of Uji in 1180.
	www.aikidocentercharlotte.com /newsletter/vol6-1.html (1337 words)

	History of Japan - Part 1
		In 1156 a civil war was waged between the forces of two rival emperors, and, after a second war, in 1159 and 1160, the Taira crushed the Minamoto and seized control of Japan from the Fujiwara.
		The Taira leader, Kiyomori, was named prime minister in 1167, and, modeling his policies on those of the Fujiwara, married his daughter to an imperial prince, their infant son becoming emperor in 1180.
		Local wars among feudal lords became common by the 16th century, which is still known in Japanese history as the Epoch of a Warring Country.
	members.tripod.com /~MickMc/jhistory.html (4406 words)

	Minamoto no Yoritomo
		In 1180 he had Masako’s current fiancé, a staunchly pro-Taira governor assassinated and Yoritomo wed Masako.
		The two are killed and their forces defeated at the battle of Uji in June, 1180.
		In this battle the entire Taira leadership was either killed or drowned, and the false Emperor Antoku with them.
	www.samurai-archives.com /mny.html (1836 words)

	[No title]
		The Châlukya dynasty, residing at Badami, suffered a severe reverse when Pulakeshin II was killed in battle by Narasimha Varman I of Pallava, and Badami occupied.
		Clive became the effective founder of the British Empire in India, and the Battle of Plassey one of the supreme moments of British Imperial history.
		Paludan mentions the loss of over 100,000 Chinese in the very last, three week long battle of the Mongol conquest of the Southern Sung, off Kwantung in 1279 [p.147], and the proposal by Bayan, chancellor of Toghan-Temür, to exterminate "all Chinese with the five most popular names, some 90 per cent of the population!" [p.157].
	saturniancosmology.org /files/fries/sangoku.txt (13390 words)

	to travel is to live: 07/17/2005 - 07/23/2005
		This float depicts a scene during the civil war in 1180.
		On the Uji river, a warrior monk Ichirai Hoshi jumped over his fellow monk Jyomyo to lead the vanguard during the Uji River Battle.
		These smaller floats were carried by men on their shoulders when steering the corner.
	phototravel.blogspot.com /2005_07_17_phototravel_archive.html (1265 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)