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	Hogen Rebellion - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Hōgen Rebellion (保元の乱) was a Japanese civil war fought in 1156 over Japanese imperial succession and control of the Fujiwara clan of regents.
		The outcome of the Hōgen Rebellion and the rivalry established between the Minamoto and Taira clans led to the Heiji Rebellion in 1159.
		Together with the Tale of Heiji and the Tale of Heike, they describe the rise and fall of the Minamoto and Taira samurai clans.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hogen_Rebellion (343 words)

	Heiji Rebellion - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Heiji Rebellion (平治の乱) was fought between rival subjects of the cloistered Emperor Go-Shirakawa of Japan in 1159.
		It was preceded by and a result of the Hōgen Rebellion in 1156.
		The Kamakura period epic Tale of Heiji is about the exploits of the samurai that participated in the Heiji Rebellion.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Heiji_Rebellion (306 words)

	Samurai (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Skilled in mounted combat and archery, these clan warriors became the emperor's preferred tool for putting down rebellions (the armies were eventually disbanded).
		Their involvement in the Hogen Rebellion in the late Heian only consolidated their power and finally pit the rival Minamoto and the Taira against each other in the Heiji Rebellion of 1160.
		Emerging victorious, Taira no Kiyomori became an imperial advisor, the first warrior to attain such a position, and eventually seized control of the central government to establish the first samurai-dominated government and relegate the emperor to a mere figurehead.
	www.1-free-software.com /en/wikipedia/s/sa/samurai.html (2590 words)

	Emperor Go-Shirakawa of Japan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		He seized power steadily after Hōgen Rebellion; his reign commenced in 1155.
		Two samurai clans, the Taira and the Minamoto, stood against each other, and the Heiji Rebellion occurred in 1159.
		Go-Shirakawa planned to regain power, and secretly sent his son Prince Mochihito as a messenger to the Minamoto, who were the enemy of the Taira, in which Go-Shirakawa proclaimed the Taira as the enemy of the court and requested that the people fight against them.
	www.sevenhills.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Emperor_Go-Shirakawa_of_Japan (728 words)

	Knowledge King - Minamoto no Yoshitomo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		With the outbreak of the Hogen Rebellion in 1156, the members of the Minamoto and Taira samurai clans were beckoned into the conflict.
		Also, the outcome of the Hogen rebellion established the Minamoto and Taira as the two strongest political rivals in the country.
		Yoshitomo was angry that the Taira had became the favorite of the imperial court after the Hogen Rebellion despite the sacrifice of the Minamoto.
	www.knowledgeking.net /encyclopedia/m/mi/minamoto_no_yoshitomo.html (331 words)

	Encyclopedia: Heiji-Rebellion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Events Heiji Rebellion in Tunis is conquered by the Almohad caliphs.
		Events Establishment of the Carmelite Order Hogen Rebellion in Japan January 20 - According to legend, freeholder Lalli slays English crusader Bishop Henry with an axe on the ice of the lake Köyliönjärvi in Finland.
		The Siege of the Sanjo Palace was the primary battle of the 1159 Heiji Rebellion.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Heiji_Rebellion (791 words)

	Warriors of Japan as Portrayed in the War Tales (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Heiji monogatari deals with the other brief outburst of violence in 1159-60, when the disgruntled Yoshitomo took the side of the new emperor Nijô against the retired emperor Goshirakawa.
		The latter prevailed with the decisive support of Kiyomori, whose incredible clemency to two of Yoshitomo's sons, Yoritomo and Yoshitsune, would prove to be the undoing of the Taira.
		It is worth noting that Varley identifies Tamemoto (in Hôgen), Yoshihira and Yoritomo (in Heiji) as tragic failed heroes.
	www.gotterdammerung.org /books/reviews/w/warriors-of-japan-as-portrayed-in-the-war-tales.html (1130 words)

	Heiji Rebellion -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Heiji Rebellion (平治の乱) was fought between rival subjects of the (Click link for more info and facts about cloistered) cloistered (Click link for more info and facts about emperor Go-Shirakawa) emperor Go-Shirakawa of (A constitutional monarchy occupying the Japanese Archipelago; a world leader in electronics and automobile manufacture and ship building) Japan in 1159.
		It was preceded by and a result of the (Click link for more info and facts about Hogen Rebellion) Hogen Rebellion in 1156.
		The (Click link for more info and facts about Kamakura period) Kamakura period epic Tale of Heiji is about the exploits of the samurai that participated in the Heiji Rebellion.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/H/He/Heiji_Rebellion.htm (352 words)

	Hogen Rebellion -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Minamoto no Yoshitomo became head of the Minamoto after the death of his father and together with Taira no Kiyomori, succeeded in establishing the two samurai clans as new political powers in (A city in central Japan on southern Honshu; a famous cultural center that was once the capital of Japan) Kyoto.
		The outcome of the Hōgen Rebellion and the rivalry established between the Minamoto and Taira clans led to the (Click link for more info and facts about Heiji Rebellion) Heiji Rebellion in 1159.
		Together with the Tale of Heiji and the (Click link for more info and facts about Tale of Heike) Tale of Heike, they describe the rise and fall of the Minamoto and Taira samurai clans.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/H/Ho/Hogen_Rebellion.htm (313 words)

	Taira no Kiyomori - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		After the death of his father Taira no Tadamori in 1153, Kiyomori assumed control of the Taira clan and ambitiously entered the political realm in which he had previously only held a minor post.
		In 1156, he and Minamoto no Yoshitomo, head of the Minamoto clan, suppressed the Hogen Rebellion.
		However, their new strength in effect caused the allies to become bitter rivals which culminated three years later in the Heiji Rebellion in 1159.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Taira_no_Kiyomori (492 words)

	Samurai
		These clans originally were farmers that had been driven to arm and protect themselves from the tyranny of the imperially appointed magistrates sent to govern their lands and collect taxes.
		Though originally sent to provincial areas for a 4 year term as a magistrate, after completion of their term, knowing that they would only be able to take only sideline roles in the government, they decided to stay and not to return to Kyoto.
		Their involvememt in the Hogen Rebellion in the late Heian only consolidated their power and finally pit the rival Minamoto and the Taira against each other in the Heiji Rebellion of 1160.
	home.comcast.net /~sylvanarrow/samurai.htm (1011 words)

	Genpei War (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Genpei Wars were the culmination of a decades-long conflict between the two clans over dominance of the Imperial court, and thus, by extension, control of Japan.
		In the Hogen Rebellion and Heiji Rebellion of earlier decades, the Minamoto attempted to regain control from the Taira, and failed.
		The Taira then began a series of executions, intended to eliminate their rivals once and for all.
	www.tocatch.info /en/Genpei_War.htm (494 words)

	Minamoto Yoritomo @ BaseballLiving.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The cloistered Emperor Toba and his son Emperor Go-Shirakawa sided with the son of Fujiwara regent Fujiwara no Tadazane, Fujiwara no Tadamichi as well as Taira no Kiyomori (a member of the Taira clan), while Cloistered Emperor Sutoku sided with Tadazane's younger son, Fujiwara no Yorinaga.
		This was known as the Hogen Rebellion, or the 'Hogen Disturbance'.
		This was known as the Heiji Rebellion, or the 'Heiji Disturbance'.
	www.baseballliving.com /about/Minamoto_Yoritomo (940 words)

	Samurai
		During the Heian period, the emperor's army was disbanded and the emperor's power gradually declined.
		The two provinces were the lands of the daimyos that submitted to Ieyasu after the war of Sekigahara (1600).
		Other sources claim that the last samurai were in 1877, during the Satsuma Rebellion in the Battle of Shiroyama.
	pedia.newsfilter.co.uk /wikipedia/s/sa/samurai.html (5100 words)

	Military Conscription Ordinance of 1872 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In an emergency the emperor became the Marshal, mobilizing the able-bodied youth for military service and thereby suppressing rebellion.
		gen [1156-58] and Heiji [1159-60] eras, the court became lax, and military control passed into the hands of the warrior class.
		Feudal conditions spread throughout the country, and there appeared among the people a distinction between the farmer and the soldier.
	www.history.emory.edu /RAVINA/PROJECT/Meiji_pages/Military_Conscription_Ordi.html (591 words)

	Hogen Rebellion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		However, it also succeeded inestablishing the dominance of the samurai clans and eventually the first samurai leadgovernment in the history of Japan.
		The Kamakura period epic Tale of Hogen is about theexploits of the samurai that participated in the Hogen Rebellion.
		Together with the Tale of Heiji and the Tale ofHeike, they describe the rise and fall of the Minamoto and Taira samurai clans.
	www.therfcc.org /hogen-rebellion-156134.html (322 words)

	Heiji Rebellion Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
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	Heiji Rebellion - Rival Subjects of Emperor Go-Shirakawa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Heiji Rebellion - Rival Subjects of Emperor Go-Shirakawa
		The Heiji Rebellion was fought between rival subjects of the cloistered emperor Go-Shirakawa of Japan in 1159.
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	www.japan-101.com /history/heiji_rebellion.htm (223 words)

	Heiji Rebellion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Afterwards, Taira no Kiyomori banished Yoshitomo's son Minamoto no Yoritomo, seized the Minamoto wealth andland, and eventually formed the first samurai dominated government, led by the Taira, in the history ofJapan.
		The Kamakura period epic Tale of Heiji is about theexploits of the samurai that participated in the Heiji Rebellion.
		Together with the Tale of Hogen and the Tale of Heike, they describe the rise and fall of the Minamoto and Tairasamurai clans.
	www.therfcc.org /heiji-rebellion-156135.html (170 words)

	Samurai (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Even though they may have been educated, the Imperial court officials considered 7th to 9th century warriors to be crude and barbaric.
		As such the Imperial Army defeated a rebellion of samurai in the Satsuma Rebellion.
		The Japanese Empire fought and won the Sino-Japanese War (1894) and the Russo-Japanese War (1904) and it could be reasoned that these volunteers and officers were behind these victories.
	www.oko3.com /samurai.html (5711 words)

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		I had strong affinity with Japan and its people when I was chosen as one of the RASEA scholars in high school.
		After college, I got the chance to exchange letters with Japanese pen pals named Nobue Ozawa and Rie Takahashi which opened up more knowledge in Japanese culture; I recall Rie painstakingly wrote hiragana and katakana characters for me to learn the language until we lost contact and I am unable to pay off her efforts.
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	Hogen Rebellion - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Hogen Rebellion - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
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		The article about Hogen Rebellion contains information related to Hogen Rebellion.
	www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Hogen_Rebellion (362 words)

	The Ultimate Battle of Ishibashiyama - American History Information Guide and Reference
		In this, his first attempt to challenge the Taira, he was assisted by warriors from the Miura clan.
		Yoritomo had been exiled by Taira no Kiyomori following the Heiji Rebellion.
		When Kiyomori heard that Yoritomo had left Izu and was heading for the Hakone Pass, he appointed Oba Kagechika to stop him.
	www.historymania.com /american_history/Battle_of_Ishibashiyama (116 words)

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	NHK 2005 historical drama "Yoshitsune" episode summaries
		In December 1159, the Genji clan, which has once prospered in Kyoto with its head Minamoto no Yoshitomo, is defeated by the Heike clan in the battle of Heiji.
		Kiyomori took a prestigious sword, "Higekiri no Tachi" which had been always inherited by the Genji successors, at the end of the battle of Heiji.
		Kiyomori is surprised to hear the news of Yorimasa's rebellion for he laid trust in Yorimasa.
	www.sonic.net /~tabine/Heike/Heike_Yoshitsune_taiga_summaries.html (3065 words)

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