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	Temples in Northern Japan: Motsuji (Hiraizumi, Iwate)
		It was a city of gold and glitter, a marvelous place with palaces and temples covered in pure gold.
		Hiraizumi, as this chimerical city was called, was established in 1094 as the capital of the northern Fujiwara, a clan which had come to control northern Japan and claimed to be a branch of the mighty family that dominated the court in Kyoto.
		The other great temple of Hiraizumi, Chusonji, is only a 20 min.
	www.xs4all.nl /~daikoku/junrei/reijo/31-ban.htm (817 words)

	Iwate Prefecture - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Iwate faces the Pacific Ocean to the east, and borders Aomori Prefecture on the north, Akita Prefecture on the west, and Miyagi Prefecture on the south.
		On September 1, 2005 the towns of Ashiro and Nishine and the village of Matsuo from Iwate District merged, forming the city of Hachimantai.
		On February 20, 2006 the cities of Esashi and Mizusawa and the municipaltites of Maesawa, Isawa and Koromogawa from Isawa District merged to form the new city of Ōshū.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Iwate_Prefecture (695 words)

	IBM Hometown Homepage - Ichinoseki Places to Visit
		With cherry blossoms in the spring, green leaves in the summer, maple leaves in the fall and snow in the winter, the stream is a beautiful canvas colored by the four seasons.
		Hiraizumi flourished between the latter half of the Heian period (794 - 1185) and the Kamakura period (1185 - 1333) as the headquarters for the Fujiwara clan of Oshu, the northeastern region of Japan.
		From the Earlier Nine Years' War (1051-1062) to the burning of Hiraizumi, 30 scenes depicting the history and culture of the Fujiwara family's rule are displayed with 107 wax dolls.
	hometown.infocreate.co.jp /en/tohoku/ichinoseki/midoko-e.html (590 words)

	North Japan » Travel & Tourism
		Iwate Prefecture is located at the northeastern side of Japan's main island Honshu.
		Its terrain is dominated by mountains, hills and valleys with Ou Mountains on the western border straddling with Akita Prefecture and the Kitakami Highlands on the eastern side.
		Hiraizumi is considered as one of the most historically important towns of Tohoku region with Chusonji Temple Complex first opened in 850.
	www.north-japan.org /travel_region.asp?r=Iwate (202 words)

	Station 23 - Hiraizumi Discussion
		The three generations of the Fujiwara family at Hiraizumi were Fujiwara Kiyohira (1056-1128), Motohira, and Hidehira.
		Kitakamigawa is the largest river in the north country flowing through the middle of Iwate Prefecture and through the northeast part of Miyagi Prefecture.
		All of the many places Basho visits at Hiraizumi fall into two groups; the first is Takadachi, and the second is the Hikarido.
	darkwing.uoregon.edu /~kohl/basho/23-hiraizumi/discussion.html (3448 words)

	Hiraizumi travel guide - Wikitravel
		Hiraizumi is on the JR Tohoku Main Line, connecting to Morioka in the north and Sendai to the south.
		Hiraizumi's largest and most famous temple, renowned particularly for its Golden Hall (金色堂 Konjikidō) — which, unlike Kyoto's Golden Pavilion, is housed inside a large glass case.
		The garden seems downright un-Japanese in its liberal use of wide, grassy spaces — but most of the open spaces have scattered rocks and are marked with small posts in the middle, indicating the locations of destroyed temple buildings.
	wikitravel.org /en/Hiraizumi (498 words)

	Historic Monuments and Sites of Hiraizumi - UNESCO World Heritage Centre (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Hiraizumi was a political and cultural center in northern Japan under the administration of the Fujiwara family in the 11th and 12th centuries.
		Since the times of the ancient Japanese administration jurisdiction known as the Ritsury6 state, which conquered the aborigines of the northern region, the Hiraizumi area had thrived as a military stronghold essential for those in control of the Kitakami River valley.
		And the remains of Yanaginogosho, containing residences and gardens, add to the outstanding position of the Historic Monuments of Hiraizumi in the history of Japanese garden culture.
	whc.unesco.org /pg_friendly_print.cfm?cid=326&id=1528& (326 words)

	Jan Dodd : Japan : Top 10s
		The small town of Hiraizumi is home to Tohoku's single most compelling sight, the Konjiki-do (Golden Hall) of Chuson-ji temple.
		Though the hall is a mere 5.5sqm, it still presents an extraordinary spectacle, a jewel box of gleaming gold leaf containing an altar smothered in mother-of-pearl inlay and decked with delicate, gilded copper friezes.
		It's a lovely area for summer hiking among some 300 lakes and marshes scattered among beech forests, while in winter the slopes of Bandai-san are popular for skiing.
	www.jandodd.com /japan/top10s_tohoku.htm (558 words)

	March 9th: Chusonji, Naruko and Nezugaseki » Japan Hopper (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Hiraizumi prospered in the 11th and 12th cenuturies under the rule of the Fujiwara clan, and is said to have rivaled Kyoto in cultural sophistication.
		After the Fujiwaras fell from favour at the end of the 12th century, the city’s importance declined and most of its buildings were ruined.
		He composed several haiku about Hiraizumi and Chusonji, publishing them in his travel diary “Oku no hosomichi” (translated under several English titles, including “Narrow Road to the Interior“), and seems to be much loved here.
	www.japan-hopper.com /2006/04/18_11130.php (1143 words)

	Map of Campus and the Environs of Iwate University (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Iwate University is situated in Morioka, Iwate prefecture.
		Including nearby towns and villages, it has a population of　about 350,000, and is the major city in the North Tohoku region.
		Iwate University is situated to the 2 kms north-east from the central train station, with connections to Tokyo by Tohoku Shinkansen taking 2 1/2 hours, and 5 minutes by car from the Morioka Interchange of the Tohoku Highway.
	www.eng.iwate-u.ac.jp /en/graduate_school/map/index.html (214 words)

	Bioline International Official Site (site up-dated regularly)
		The cesspit toilets were found at the Yanagi-no-gosho Site in Hiraizumi Town (1995), Iwate Prefecture, a local Samurai and merchant town in Northeast Japan during 12th century [(Iwate Prefectural Archaeological Center) (Iwate Prefectural Archaeological Center)(Iwate-ken Maizo-Bunkazai Center)1995 ].
		Owing to the fact that there were few domestic animals in Japan, there was less detection of parasites such as a fluke (Fasciola hepatica) that parasitize sheep and beef.
		Iwate Prefectural Archaeological Center (Iwate-ken Maizo-Bunkazai Center) 1995.
	www.bioline.org.br /request?oc03019 (4153 words)

	Amazon.com: Hiraizumi: Buddhist Art and Regional Politics in Twelfth-Century Japan (Harvard East Asian Monographs): ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Known as the Hiraizumi Fujiwara, these rulers created a city filled with art, in an attempt to use the power of art and architecture to claim a religious and political mandate.
		She traces the strategies by which the Hiraizumi Fujiwara attempted to legitimate their rule and grounds the splendor of Hiraizumi in the desires, political and personal, of the men and women who sponsored and displayed that art.
		Hiraizumi was built up by Emishi descendents in the position of what the Chinese called "barbarians over barbarians" -- they were given titles and dispensations in return for ruling over their people as colonial representatives.
	www.amazon.com /Hiraizumi-Buddhist-Politics-Twelfth-Century-Monographs/dp/0674392051 (1161 words)

	Hiraizumi Travel Guide
		During the Heian Period (794-1185), Hiraizumi was the seat of the ruling Fujiwara clan's "Northern branch" and rivaled the capital of Kyoto culturally, politically and commercially at its peak in the 12th century.
		In 1189, however, Hiraizumi was razed by Minamoto Yoritomo after the local Fujiwara supported and provided a refuge to Yoritomo's rival and brother Yoshitsune.
		The city never recovered to its former glory, but still features some of the Tohoku Region's cultural highlights.
	www.japan-guide.com /e/e5000.html (172 words)

	Randy's 'Favorite Getaways in Rural Japan' p 8
		Hiraizumi (hira-iZUmi) was once, and for a brief time, the political and cultural center of the Tohoku area, rivaling even Kyoto with its wealth of ornate Buddhist monasteries.
		Once a large and thriving cultural center, Hiraizumi today is just a small rural town in a pleasantly wooded setting, and most of the thousands of temples and noble houses once surrounding it were destroyed or abandoned after the Fujiwaras were defeated.
		When the poet Basho visited Hiraizumi on his personal pilgrimage five centuries later, there was little left to be seen of the power and the glory of the great Fujiwara clan.
	www.ease.com /~randyj/rjjapan5.htm (7263 words)

	Secret Japan - Hiraizumi (Iwate-ken) [E]
		Hiraizumi was once, and for a brief time, the political and cultural center of the Tohoku area, rivaling even Kyoto with its wealth of ornate Buddhist monasteries.
		The power struggles of the Fujiwaras are celebrated in many well-known legends, dramas, and poems, and Hiraizumi remains an interesting reminder of the history of that era.
		I chose Hiraizumi as my one stopover en route to Hokkaido, after reading Exploring Tohoku; I stayed three days and I was not disappointed.
	www.secret-japan.com /forum/viewtopic.php?p=815 (2781 words)

	Temples in Northern Japan: Chusonji (Hiraizumi, Iwate)
		Whether those ties were an invention or not, Kiyohira tried hard to prove his cultural worthiness by establishing a city in Hiraizumi that could vie with Kyoto.
		An army sent to the north by Minamoto no Yoritomo in 1189 completely razed Hiraizumi, setting fire to its palaces and temples and putting its inhabitants to the sword, until a grassy plain was all that remained of the former magnificence.
		southwest of Hiraizumi) and Gembikei, a picturesque gorge (9 km.
	www.xs4all.nl /~daikoku/junrei/reijo/30-ban.htm (1303 words)

	JNTO Website \| Find a Location \| Iwate \| Hiraizumi
		Hiraizumi in the southwestern part of Iwate Prefecture is a town extending up the Hiraizumi Hill on the west bank of the Kitakami-gawa River, that prospered for almost 100 years from the 11th to 12th centuries as the center of the Tohoku region (the northeastern region).
		The historical artifacts and Buddhist statues found in the Konjiki-do are stored in the Sanko-zo storehouse and displayed to the public, reminding all who see them of the very high level of artistic achievement in these earlier times.
		Many historical sites and buildings still remain around Hiraizumi, including the site of the Muryoko-in Temple, modeled after Byodo-in Temple in Uji, Kyoto, and the Takadachi-gikei-do Temple, which houses a wooden statue of the tragic samurai warrior Minamoto-no Yoshitsune.
	www.jnto.go.jp /eng/location/regional/iwate/hiraizumi.html (365 words)

	HI - Hiraizumi - Motsu-ji YH Albergue Juvenile - Youth Hostel
		HI - Hiraizumi - Motsu-ji YH Albergue Juvenile - Youth Hostel
		HIRAIZUMI - MOTSU-JI YH (para ampliar, pulsa en las imágenes)
		Para reservar, ponte en contacto directamente con el albergue.
	www.hihostels.com /dba/hostel032110.es.htm (39 words)

	Sinchew-i News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Fujiwara no Kiyohira, first lord of the Oshu Fujiwara clan, moved to Hiraizumi in the south of Iwate Prefecture in the late 11th century, believing its geographical features resembled those of Kyoto, and that the area was of strategic importance for both land and marine transportation.
		However, in 1189, the era of Yasuhira, the fourth lord, Hiraizumi was attacked by Minamoto no Yoritomo, the first shogunate of the Kamakura government, who hoped to gain control of the area.
		The sites in Hiraizumi have been on a tentative list since April 2001, and on Sept 14, the government decided to recommend the site, which it calls "Hiraizumi--Cultural Landscape associated with Pure Land Buddhism," to be listed on the World Cultural Heritage list.
	e.sinchew-i.com /news/index.phtml?sec=2&artid=200610040004 (480 words)

	Atelier Aterui: Image Index: Hanamaki City, Iwate
		His deep love for the environment of "Ihatov" (his imaginary world based on Iwate Prefecture), his researches of geology, biology, astrology, and hundreds of poems and children's stories that made Miyazawa one of the nation's most popular literary giants.
		Hanamaki Festival, annually held in mid-September, is one of the well-known traditional festivals of Iwate.
		It was said to be donated by the Oshu-Fujiwara family in Hiraizumi in the late Heian Period (12th century).
	p-www.iwate-pu.ac.jp /~acro-ito/Japan_pics/Japan_HNM/imageidx.html (941 words)

	Sorin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The Golden Hall of Chusonji is representative of the Golden Culture of the four generations of the Fujiwara family that ruled Hiraizumi 900 years ago.
		"Shumi" is an imaginary sacred mountain the Buddhist legends and referred to as "Paradise." Visualizing the dream of Fujiwara, the ruler of Hiraizumi who sought to create a paradise from the haunting ashes of the past, the composer takes the listener musically on a historical journey through Hiraizumi in Iwate prefecture.
		Sawarabi (Fern Shoot) describes the freshness and liveliness of the mountains in Spring, as the people begin to gather the fern shoots.
	www.kokingumi.com /sorin.htm (310 words)

	asahi.com：AROUND JAPAN/HIRAIZUMI, Iwate Prefecture 66,000-volt power line towers overshadow a sleepy town's bid for ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Three of those towers are jeopardizing historic Hiraizumi's bid to be recognized as an official World Heritage area.
		Robert de Jong, a member of the ICOMOS committee, argued that the steel towers ruin the landscape.
		The Hiraizumi towers--one at 20 meters and two at 35 meters, each carrying 66,000-volt cables--are designed to last for 36 years.
	www.asahi.com /english/Herald-asahi/TKY200609050103.html (736 words)

	Guía para Hiraizumi - paradores, cosas a hacer, nightlife, extremidades, etc del recorrido (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Hiraizumi (??, [1]) es una ciudad pequeña en Iwate, en la región del noreste de Tohoku de Japón.
		Durante el reinado del Fujiwaras (866-1184), Hiraizumi fue dicho para rivalizar Kyoto en grandeur y la sofisticación, pero ahora todo que el restos es los templos de Chusonji y de Motsuji, que están sobre todo adentro se arruina en ése.
		Hiraizumi está en la línea principal de JR Tohoku, conectando con Morioka en el norte y Sendai con el sur.
	es.paganel.eu /hiraizumi/index.html (518 words)

	Heritage Hiraizumi Site World -- Internet's Best Resource (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Hiraizumi has been working hard to get its Japan has now settled on the four sites that it will nominate for a place on Each signatory country to the World Heritage Convention has been drawing up its own starting with the historic site of Hiraizumi, Iwate Prefecture.
		Hiraizumi has been working hard to get its TOKYO - Japan's Agency for Cultural Affairs will recommend the landscape around the ancient town of Hiraizumi, Iwate Prefecture, as a candidate World Heritage site, aiming for registration by the UN..
		Hiraizumi to be recommended for registration as World Heritage site (Kyodo _ Japan will recommend the Buddhist temples and landscape around the ancient town of Hiraizumi, Iwate Prefecture, as a candidate World Heritage cultural site The Japanese love World Heritage sites and go out of their way to visit them overseas and in Japan.
	ethernetreader.info /heritage-hiraizumi-site-world.html (4691 words)

	Japan Atlas: Golden Hall of Chusonji Temple (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Chusonji Temple stands in the town of Hiraizumi, Iwate Prefecture, in north-eastern Japan, now a small agricultural town with a population of less than ten thousand.
		In the late 11th century, the Fujiwara family, descendants of an offshoot of the distinguished family in Kyoto, settled in Hiraizumi and became powerful rulers of northern Japan.
		On the altars under which three coffins are stored stand rows of golden Buddhist statues and accouterments, and those altars, the ceilings, and pillars are gorgeously decorated with gold, silver and jewels.
	web-jpn.org /atlas/architecture/arc03.html (364 words)

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		the historical park in future by the Iwate Board of Education.
		Iwate Archaeological Research Center for Cultural Properties (a section of the
		@Archaeological remains in Iwate are stored and some of them are exhibited.
	www.pref.iwate.jp /~hp0909/koto/kotoe/sankoue/sisetue/sisetue.htm (668 words)

	Iwate-ken Things To Do - Travel Guides - VirtualTourist.com
		There is no section for Hiraizumi on VT so I have to stick to its region, Iwate.
		Hiraizumi is the place where Minamoto Yoshitsune met his tragic end, and those of you who are into Japanese history/myths etc will know that Benkei, his faithful retainer, died protecting his right to die with honour.
		Hiraizumi now is a small peaceful country town where not much goes on, but if you are passing through it's worth stopping for the lovely sights that are here.
	www.virtualtourist.com /travel/Asia/Japan/Iwate_ken/Things_To_Do-Iwate_ken-R-1.html (206 words)

	Pentrace Article # 427:- Maki-e, an art for the soul - The Danitrio Maki-e Collection (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		One who is greatly familiar with Maki-e can tell from the finished art the source of this product by the design, patterns or Urushi painting.
		For example, Hiraizumi in Iwate Prefecture is well known for their Hidehira-nuri designing with gold leaves.
		Johoji in Iwate Prefecture is famous for their Tame-nuri.
	www.pentrace.net /penbase/Data_Returns/full_article.asp?id=427 (912 words)

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