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	Bushcat's Miidera, Enryaku-ji & Yokawa
		Miidera is at the foot of Mt Hiei just outside Kyoto, Enryaku-ji is at the top.
		The original name was Onjo-ji when built in 686 A.D. but was given the name Miidera in 859 A.D. by high priest Enchin, who studied with Ennin, a disciple of Saicho who founded the Tendai sect, at Enryaku-ji Temple on Mt Hiei.
		The Miidera complex is set slightly back from the town of Otsu and against the foot of Mt Hiei, so there are nice views along the mountain chain including Mt Hira, and across Lake Biwa (Japan's largest freshwater lake).
	www.bushcat.com /jbits/miidera.html (1138 words)

	Notes for Tale of Heike, Chapter 4
		The Miidera monks send a letter to the Enryakuji monks asking them to rise up with them against the Taira but are refused.
		The Miidera monks send a second letter to the monks of Kôfukuji in Nara, who seem more predisposed to help them than the Enryakuji monks were.
		The Miidera monks finally set out (but they have dallied too long in meetings to succeed in their military intentions).
	www.sonic.net /~tabine/Heike/Heikechpt04.html (1322 words)

	The Age of the Samurai - Warrior Monk (Sohei)
		The monks of Kofukuji lost several of their members to the monks of Todaiji in a dispute over land in 969 and a year later Enryakuji was in a dispute with Miidera over the Gion shrine in Kyoto.
		The latter case led to the chief abbot, Ryogen, maintaining his own private army on Mount Hiei and this was the first of the warrior monk armies.
		Between the 10th and 14th centuries violence was common in the feuds between the temples of Nara and Mount Hiei but they were not over religious affairs, rather politics although the outcome was often what one would expect in war.
	www.taots.co.uk /content/view/32/27 (1881 words)

	JAANUS / Benkei 弁慶
		From Benkei's days as a priest comes the episode of his stealing the bell of the rival temple Miidera 三井寺 and carrying it up the steep slopes of Mt. Hiei.
		Also famous is his violent attack on priests at Mt. Shosha 書写 in which Benkei avenges an insult by throwing one monk onto the roof of the Lecture Hall, *koudou 講堂, and then burning the entire compound (GIKEIKI 3, McCullough, pp.
		Benkei is frequently shown in popular art of the Edo period (1600-1868), with depictions ranging from ootsu-e 大津絵 (primarily, illustration of the Miidera* incident) to sword guards, tsubo 坪).
	www.aisf.or.jp /~jaanus/deta/b/benkei.htm (699 words)

	Carolyn Staley Fine Japanese Prints (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Eventually it was Benkei himself who was pursuaded by the monks of Miidera to help them rehang the bell in its rightful home.
		The bell's dull surface is said to have been caused by a woman who on a bright day, climbed the bell in order to see her reflection, but wherever she touched it, its shiny surface was replaced by a corroded film.
		The Bell of Miidera is said to have the power to restore sanity to women and any criminal that touches the bell is said to be unable to release himself from it.
	www.carolynstaleyprints.com /prints/6151.01.html (364 words)

	Notes for Tale of Heike, Chapter 2
		Miidera is an enormous temple complex different from, and in rivalry with, the Enryakuji complex at Mt. Hiei.
		It seems obvious from the drift of this section that the worker-monks are associated with Miidera and the scholar-monks with Enryakuji.
		Retired Emperor Go-Shirakawa elects to have certain ceremonies at Miidera that have traditionally be done at Enryakuji, exacerbating the ill feelings these two temple complexes have for one another.
	www.sonic.net /~tabine/Heike/Heikechpt02.html (1902 words)

	Buddhism / tendai / sohei
		This continued, on and off, once stopping for as long as 40 years, through the 11th and into the 12th century.
		Other temples became embroiled in the conflicts as well, and Enryakuji and Miidera united against Kofukuji, and, another time, against Kiyomizu-dera.
		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)).
	www.buddhism-guide.com /buddhism/sohei.htm (1428 words)

	First Battle of Uji - Military History Wiki
		In early 1180, Prince Mochihito, the Minamoto Clan's favored claimant to the Imperial Throne, was chased by Taira forces to the Miidera temple, just outside Kyoto.
		Due to the interference of a Miidera monk with Taira sympathies, the Minamoto army arrived too late to help defend the temple.
		These three, along with the other monks of Miidera fought with bow and arrow, a variety of swords and daggers, and naginata.
	www.militaryhistorywiki.org /index.php?title=First_Battle_of_Uji (253 words)

	Monkey Deities in Japanese Shinto Lore and Buddhist Art
		The deity that protects Miidera 三井寺 at the eastern foot of Mt Hiei 比叡 in Shiga prefecture.
		Shinra Myoojin (Myoujin) is the tutelary deity of Miidera.
		Thus, the priests of Miidera held this veiled threat over the heads of the ruler and his people.
	www.onmarkproductions.com /html/monkey-koushin-p3.html (4800 words)

	Glossary
		The plain color of his cloak (mizugoromo) is offset by the brilliance of his tall hat (zukin).
		Some of the earliest crazed-people plays were about men, but crazed woman (kyôjo) plays such as Miidera became more common and make up about three-quarters of the total.
		The crazed mother in Miidera wears a loose mizugoromo with the sleeves stitched up in the bact to make them shorter.
	www.glopac.org /Jparc/tjtglossary/mainGLOSS.html (14365 words)

	Benkei and the Miidera bell (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		He had an incredible appetite and loved sake (Japanese rice wine), apparently grew to two metres tall and was as strong as a hundred men.
		On one occasion Benkei decided to carry away the bell of the Miidera temple and take it to Mount Hiei for the use of other yamabushi.
		Another version of the tale was that Benkei and the yamabushi made such a noise with the bell that the abbot of Miidera begged them to return it and promised as much miso soup as Benkei could swallow.
	www.everyobject.net /story.php?uid=6670 (223 words)

	No.74
		After a careful examination of the texts and illustrations of each scroll the present writer proceeds next to the questions of the names and number of the scrolls.
		As a matter of fact, however, the so-called Miidera scroll is completed, so far as the story goes, by one which is now in Marquis Maeda's collection and this should be the only scroll to properly be called under the same name.
		Next, the question arises pertaining to the attribution of the names of the Tonsei and the Yamabushi to the remaining two scrolls, that is, the Hisamatsu and Nezu scrolls.
	www.tobunken.go.jp /~bijutsu/english/publications/bijutukenkyu/abstract/74.html (1870 words)

	Prince Mochihito - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In May of 1180, Yorimasa sent out a call to other Minamoto leaders, and to the monasteries (Enryakuji, Miidera and others) that Kiyomori had offended; he asked for aid against the Taira, in the name of Prince Mochihito.
		Learning of this, Kiyomori sent men after Mochihito, who retreated to Miidera, at the foot of Mount Hiei, but discovered that the warrior monks of Miidera, for various political reasons, could not rely on the support of any other monasteries.
		Thus, he fled once more, along with a small Minamoto force, across the River Uji, to the Phoenix Hall of the Byōdō-in.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Prince_Mochihito (283 words)

	Carolyn Staley Fine Japanese Prints: March Exhibit: Heroes of Japanese Legend (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The print at the lower right is by Hiroshige but is part of a series which Kuniyoshi and Kunisada contributed to as well.
		This particular print illustrates the story of the madwoman of Miidera, who went insane after a merchant stole her child.
		The madwoman of Miidera from the series Ogura imitation of the Hundred Poets.
	www.carolynstaleyprints.com /exhibits/heroes/page2.html (435 words)

	Gempei War
		Closer to home, Taira Tomomori - who would prove the most able of the Taira - had defeated the combined forces of old Minamoto Yorimasa and the warrior monks of the Miidera at the Uji River in late June.
		To punish the monks for their involvement thus far in the fledgling conflict, Kiyomori ordered the Miidera burned and, a few months later, a number of temples in Nara as well.
		While all of this was going on, Kiyomori had made the surprising decision to move the Imperial seat to Fukuhara (to the west of Kyoto) in June.
	www.samurai-archives.com /Gempeiwar.html (3906 words)

	Ancient East: Fine Art & Antiques of Asia
		Here we find a processional “in the round,” as a group of characters from Japanese lore parade around a leafy tree.
		Among them is Diakoku with his hammer, Benkei carrying the Miidera Bell, and the blind man who has fallen and bumped his head!
		And of course, two oni do their best to disrupt the group and cause mischief by grabbing and pushing.
	www.ancienteastantiques.com /directory/Japanese:Ivory_and_Horn.html (477 words)

	A. B. Mitford, Tales of Old Japan : Arthur's Classic Novels
		In the ancient monastery of Miidera there was a great bronze bell.
		The priests would not allow any woman to strike it, because they thought that such an action would pollute and dull the metal, as well as bring calamity upon them.
		When a certain pretty woman who lived in Kyoto heard this, she grew extremely inquisitive, and at last, unable to restrain her curiosity, she said: "I will go and see this wonderful bell of Miidera.
	arthurwendover.com /arthurs/fairy/fairyj10.html (5205 words)

	Robin Beck: Nichiren and Rival Schools
		There was also the Sen'nyuji or Sennyuji Shingon Sect, that pretty much taught Honen's Nembutsu teaching exclusively.
		Also, there was a Temple, associated with the Hachiman Shrine-Temple {which was administered by Miidera Onjoji -- Jimon Tandai}, that taught Pure Land devotion to Amida.
		As far as I know, Nichiren only mentioned these specific temples and their teachers by name later on, and then only in private letters, and then with the proviso of secrecy.
	www.fraughtwithperil.com /blogs/rbeck/archives/000700.html (659 words)

	EA 120 Japanese Theater (Spring 2003) Week 3b
		Example of Miidera: in the first part of the play, when she is praying to Kannon and has a dream oracle that sends her to Miidera temple, she seems completely sane, but in the very next scene suddenly she is mad.
		What purpose does her madness serve in terms of the narrative?
		The costuming should be beautiful, various attractive melodies should be skillfully assembled, every stirring technique employed, and true poetic coloring added.” (translation from Monica Bethe and Richard Emmert, Miidera: Noh Performance Guide 3, p.
	eee.uci.edu /clients/sbklein/THEATER/03/EA120-03b-03-outline.htm (293 words)

	Japanese bronze Benkey holding Miidera bell (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Please refer to our stock # k201 when inquiring.
		Large and finely patinated bronze figure of Japanese hero Benkey holding Miidera bell.
		He is mounted on original wood stand 7.5" by 10".
	www.trocadero.com /Dantiquary/items/499750/item499750.html (61 words)

	Kariteimo - Buddhist Protector of Children and Easy Child-Birth in Japan
		Treasure of Onjouji Temple (園城寺;, also called Miidera 三井寺)
		She may cradle a child with her left arm and may appear with three, five, seven, or nine children.
		Examples of her appearance in art include a late-Heian painting in Daigoji 醍醐寺, a Kamakura-period sculpture in Onjouji 園城寺 (Miidera 三井寺) in Shiga prefecture, and a late Heian-to-Kamakura-period sculpture in Toudaiji 東大寺 in Nara.
	www.onmarkproductions.com /html/kariteimo.html (2320 words)

	Onjoji (Miidera) Temple - Saigoku Kannon Pilgrimage (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Founded in 764, Onjoji (commonly known as Miidera) Temple is the headquarters of the Jimon sect of Tendai Buddhism and was once a rival of the mighty Enryakuji Temple on Mount Hiei.
		Murasaki Shikibu's brother was an abbot of Onjoji Temple and her father took vows there.
		The famous bell which Benkei dragged up Mount Hiei.
	www.taleofgenji.org /onjoji.html (56 words)

	Prints on Scenes from Daily Life
		Hachiman Taro -- the name means `Eldest Son of the God of War' -- was the sobriquet of Minamoto no Yoshiie (1039-1106), one of the great heroes of Japanese military history and legend.
		In 1081 he was called upon to help defend the temples of Hieizan, near Kyoto, from an attack by contentious warrior-monks of a rival sect at Miidera.
		He also loved to play go and had a reputation as a womanizer.
	www.kiseido.com /printss/p11-1.htm (3434 words)

	2005 \| Mitsu \| Fotki.com
		Album was created 1 year and 5 months ago and modified 1 year and 5 months ago
		I shot a live show at Miidera temple which has beautiful Sakura trees.
		Album was created 1 year and 6 months ago and modified 1 year and 6 months ago
	public.fotki.com /Mitsumasa/2005 (268 words)

	BC41 Ryozo Iwasaki, To Ezra Pound, 30 November 1956
		BC41 Ryozo Iwasaki, To Ezra Pound, 30 November 1956
		Included in Iwasaki’s Japanese translation of Pound’s Selected Poems is a photograph of Fenollosa’s grave at Miidera.
		In this letter Iwasaki writes that the wooden steps leading to it and the wooden platform and fence encircling it were ‘built by Mr.
	themargins.net /bib/B/BC/bc41.html (62 words)

	Asia Society: Glossary
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		A subtemple of Onjoji (also known as Miidera) in Shiga Prefecture, where Kanao Mistunobu's most famous paintings and a significant early shoin-style building are found.
		Source: Worlds Seen and Imagined: Japanese Screens from the Idemitsu Museum of Arts, Taizo Kuroda, Melinda Takeuchi, Yuzo Yamane.
	www.asiasource.org /reference/display.cfm?wordid=2143 (114 words)

	schedule
		Students should buy the texts for this class; all are available at the UNC Student Store
		Readings: "Elements of Performance," 115-125; Plays: Atsumori, Izutsu, Miidera, Shunkan,126-192; all of these are in Traditional Japanese Theater.
		Students choose one of tonight's readings and bring in
	www.unc.edu /~bardsley/japantheater/schedule.html (639 words)

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