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  Taira no Kiyomori - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Their first son, Prince Tokihito was born in 1178.
The next year, in 1179, Kiyomori staged a coup d'etat forcing the resignation of his rivals from all government posts and subsequently banishing them, then filled the open government positions with his allies and relatives, and imprisoning the cloistered emperor Go-Shirakawa.
Prince Mochihito, brother of emperor Takakura, called on Kiyomori's old rivals of the Minamoto clan to rise against the Taira beginning the Genpei War in the middle of 1180.
www.encyclopedia-online.info /Taira_no_Kiyomori   (474 words)

  
 Prince Mochihito - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Believing that Taira no Kiyomori had denied him the throne, and that Kiyomori was causing suffering, despoiling graves and destroying Buddhist Law, Mochihito supported the Minamoto clan in their conflict against the Taira.
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.
Mochihito escaped to Nara, but was captured on his way and killed soon afterwards.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Prince_Mochihito   (288 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Minamoto no Yoritomo   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
In 1180, Prince Mochihito, a son of Cloistered Emperor Go-Shirakawa, humiliated by the Taira because of the Taira-backed accession of the throne of his nephew, Emperor Antoku (who was half Taira himself) made a national call to arms of the Minamoto clan all over Japan to rebel against the Taira.
Events April 13 - Frederick Barbarossa issues the Gelnhausen Charter November 18 - France Emperor Antoku succeds Emperor Takakura as emperor of Japan Afonso I of Portugal is taken prisoner by Ferdinand II of Leon Artois is annexed by France Prince Mochihito amasses a large army and instigates the Genpei War between...
Prince Mochihito as he appeared on the 2005 NHK Taiga, Yoshitsune Prince Mochihito (以仁王, Mochihito-ō) (d.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Minamoto-no-Yoritomo   (2497 words)

  
 Emperor Go-Shirakawa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Tokihito was his grandson, the child of Emperor Takakura and empress consort Taira no Tokuko, who was a daughter of Kiyomori.
Go-Shirakawa planned to regain power, and secretly sent his son Prince Mochihito to deliver a message to the Minamoto in which Go-Shirakawa proclaimed the Taira as the enemy of the court and requested that the Minamotos fight against them.
In 1180 Mochihito and Minamoto no Yorimasa started the first rebellion.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Emperor_Go-Shirakawa_of_Japan   (708 words)

  
 Prince Mochihito - Open Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Prince Mochihito (以仁王) was a son of Emperor Go-Shirakawa of Japan.
His declaration was sent out to many warrior leaders, one of whom was Minamoto no Yoritomo.
Taira troops hunted down Mochihito and eventually killed him and many of his followers.
www.open-encyclopedia.com /Prince_Mochihito   (73 words)

  
 Taira no Kiyomori   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Their first Prince Tokihito was born in 1178.
The next year in 1179 Kiyomori staged a coup d'etat forcing the resignation of his rivals all government posts and subsequently banishing them filled the open government positions with his and relatives and imprisoning the cloistered emperor Go-Shirakawa.
Prince Mochihito brother of emperor Takakura on Kiyomori's old rivals of the Minamoto to rise against the Taira beginning the Genpei War in the middle of 1180.
www.freeglossary.com /Taira_no_Kiyomori   (566 words)

  
 Prince Mochihito -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
July, 1180), also known as the Takakura Prince, and as Minamoto Mochimitsu, was a son of (additional info and facts about Emperor Go-Shirakawa of Japan) Emperor Go-Shirakawa of Japan.
In May of 1180, Yorimasa sent out a call to other Minamoto leaders, and to the monasteries ((additional info and facts about Enryakuji) Enryakuji, (additional info and facts about Miidera) Miidera and others) that Kiyomori had offended; he asked for aid against the Taira, in the name of Prince Mochihito.
Mochihito escaped, but was captured and killed soon afterwards.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/p/pr/prince_mochihito.htm   (205 words)

  
 Heike Monogatari
The first serious resistance to the tyranny of the Taira family comes from Crown Prince Mochihito, who at the urging of the Minamoto hero Yorimasa rebels in 1180.
Mochihito gains the support of the monks of Miidera Temple, but even still his army is too small to match the mighty Taira, and the rebellion is crushed.
Nevertheless, Mochihito's forces fight valiantly to the end, including the soldier-monk Jomyo, who single-handedly takes command of the Uji Bridge, reduced now to its scaffolding, leaping nimbly about and killing dozens of Taira soldiers before having to retreat, wounded by some sixty arrows.
www.artelino.com /articles/heike-monogatari.asp   (2686 words)

  
 J-Drama: 義経 (Yoshitsune) ~ at runboard.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Yorimasa orders Nakatsuna to move Prince Mochihito to Onjo-ji, "then prepare to go to war."classliFoiled, Kiyomori deduces that the warning came from Yorimasa‛s son at the police office and sends Tomomori to Yorimasa‛s mansion in the night.
As Tomomori is approaching, Prince Mochihito is fleeing to the city of Nara.
Mochihito‛s headless body has been found, but the missing head promotes the rumor that it is someone else‛s body in Mochihito‛s clothing, while the Prince is still alive somewhere else.
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 Minamoto no Yoritomo
The action responsible for this was Taira no Kiyomori’s blatant abuse of power when he placed his one year old grandson Tokihito on the Imperial Throne as Emperor Antoku.
For Prince Mochihito and his father Retired Emperor Go-Shirakawa this was the last straw.
Mochihito issued a nation wide call to arms against the Taira clan, and it was the Minamoto who were first to answer.
www.samurai-archives.com /mny.html   (1816 words)

  
 Minamoto no Yoshitsune - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Eventually Yoshitsune was put under the protection of Fujiwara no Hidehira, head of the powerful regional Fujiwara clan in Hiraizumi, Mutsu province.
In 1180, Yoshitsune heard that Yoshitomo, now head of the Minamoto clan, had raised an army at the request of Prince Mochihito to fight against the Taira clan which had usurped the power of the emperor.
Yoshitsune shortly thereafter joined Yoshitomo along with Minamoto no Noriyori, all brothers that had never before met, in the last of three conflicts between the rival Minamoto and Taira samurai clans in the Gempei War.
www.encyclopedia-online.info /Minamoto_no_Yoshitsune   (358 words)

  
 History of the Ogasawaras   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Emperor Seiwa's 6th son was Prince Sadazumi (b.Mar/23/874-d.May/7/916) who authored 5 books on archery and was nicknamed "Nihon Yumiya Shogun" (Japanese archery shogun).
Prince Sadazumi's 5th great-grandson, Yoshikiyo (b.Apr/16/1075-d.June/23/1149), was bestowed the surname of Takeda, and his 7th great-grandson, Toumitsu (b.Feb/28/1143-d.Apr/19/1230), was bestowed the surname of Kagami.
He and his elder brother, Akiyama Taro Mitsutomo, served Taira Tomomori until 1180, but when Prince Mochihito ordered the attack against the Heike, he requested to return to his home province under the guise of caring for his ailing mother at which time he levied troops to side with Minamoto Yoritomo.
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 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.
Minamoto no Yorimasa led Prince Mochihito, along with the Minamoto army and a number of warrior monks from Miidera, south towards Nara.
The Prince was killed shortly afterwards, by the Taira warriors.
www.militaryhistorywiki.org /index.php?title=First_Battle_of_Uji   (253 words)

  
 *Waterfall & Wings* Takizawa Hideaki ~~~ Yoshitsune ~~~ DAISUKI!!!
Mochihito, like Yorimasa, is neglected by the imperial family as he is not the Crown Prince.
Kiyomori calls for the arrest of Prince Mochihito, as he is the mastermind in name.
He has grown so powerful in the capital that imperial edicts (the letter issued by Prince Mochihito) are no longer as powerful as they used to be.
waterfallandwings.blogspot.com /2005_04_26_waterfallandwings_archive.html   (2334 words)

  
 1180 - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Afonso I of Portugal is taken prisoner by Ferdinand II of Leon
Prince Mochihito amasses a large army and instigates the Genpei War between Taira and Minamoto clans
Frederick Barbarossa removes Henry the Lion from the Duchy of Saxony, and created the Duchies of Westphalia and Styria
encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /1180.htm   (196 words)

  
 Untitled   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
May 1180 Minamoto Yorimasa (until now a respected member of the government because he had refrained from taking sides with the Minamoto against Kiyomori and the Taira) plots to overthrow Antoku and Kiyomori and place Prince Mochihito, the son of Go-Shirakawa, on the throne.
Mochihito publicly calls for the overthrow of the Taira.
Kiyomori foils the plot and while trying to escape Mochihito is captured and killed while Yorimasa is wounded and commits seppuku.
www.wilton.k12.ct.us /whs/fac/g/gilberts2/cc/heian.htm   (2918 words)

  
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To cope with the financial difficulty of supporting numerous princes and princesses, some of these nobles were given new surnames and became independent.
Prince Mochihito (以仁王, 1151-80), the second (or third) son of the emperor was among them, having been forced to give up his hopes of becoming emperor by the enthronement of Emperor Antoku, a grandson of Taira no Kiyomori.
The arrogant and arbitrary rule of the Taira was cited as justification for the Minamoto to wage war against them.
www.kcn-net.org /e_kama_history/history/history1.htm   (2051 words)

  
 Kamakura Period   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The battle started when Prince Mochihito, the Minamoto heir apparent to the Japanese throne, was pursued to the Miidera temple by a Taira army.
When the Minamoto general, Minamoto no Yorimasa, could not guide Prince Mochihito to safety he committed the first ever seppuku in recorded history.
In 1180, Prince Mochihito set out a verdict to the Minamoto families to rise up against Taira no Kiyomori and the Taira family that had wrestled power into their own hands from the Minamoto.
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 +yoshitsune@takizawa-hideaki.NET / LIFE / taiga / 13
So Yorimasa and Nakatsuna went to see Prince Mochihito, who was the third son of Go-Shirakawa.
As Yoritomo asked him to get to the point, Yukiie then produced the letter from Prince Mochihito, and explained that it's a direct command from the Prince to crush Heike.
Yukiie finally arrives in Hiraizumi, and informs Yoshitsune of Prince Mochihito's command, and the progress of the situation.
www.takizawa-hideaki.net /yoshitsune/life/life-taiga-ep13.htm   (1446 words)

  
 Rise to power (from Minamoto Yoritomo) --  Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - The online encyclopedia you can trust!
In 1180 Minamoto Yorimasa, another member of the Minamoto clan, joined in a rebellion with an imperial prince, Mochihito-o, who summoned the Minamoto clan to arms in various provinces.
Yoritomo now used this princely mandate as a justification for his own uprising.
Despite Mochihito-o's death, which occurred shortly before Yoritomo's men were led into battle, he succeeded in gaining much support from the feudal lords in the eastern provinces.
www.britannica.com /ebc/article-4894   (1164 words)

  
 EviouS - Mobile Entertainment   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
It's the dead of winter in 1080 A.D. The strongest clans of japan, the Heike and the Genji, are at the dawn of a bloody five year conflict, later to be known as the Gempei war.
Kiso Yoshinaka, a powerful Genji lord, responds to the call of the late prince mochihito to raise arms against the Heike, and heads north, towards the mountains.
Yoshinaka's most trusted warrior, a woman that goes by the name of Tomoe, is left with a handful of defenders at the castle.
www.evious.com /tomoeinfo.htm   (220 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 September Minamoto Yoritomo, who had recieved Mochihito's call from Miyoshi Yasukiyo, set about raising an army in the Province of Izu, where he had been in exile.
www.samurai-archives.com /Gempeiwar.html   (3883 words)

  
 e-Review of Tourism Research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
A theatrical performance associated with a subject of its local history was held on the 2nd of the last November for the first time 'Prince Mochihito' is an imperial person of historical fact in the 12th century who tried to overthrow the government at that time and consequently run away from Kyoto.
Only local residents and community groups played on the stage supervised by a professional The festival seems to give local residents a chance to enhance their local identities and their affection for the towns name the under the circumstances of an administrative incorporation, one of the most urgent political issues.
In this sense, Mochihito Festival has possibility of growing up to be cultural and traditional, fostering local residents' 'our feeling'.
ertr.tamu.edu /conferenceabstracts.cfm?abstractid=243   (382 words)

  
 1180 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
September 24 - Manuel I Comnenus, Byzantine Emperor (born 1118)
Prince Mochihito, son of Emperor Go-Shirakawa of Japan
This page was last modified 08:39, 2 November 2005.
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 Odawara
Traffic was rerouted to a road in the Hakone mountains as a result, a road which led through Odawara on its way east, and even after Ashigara was cleared Hakone remained opened.
In 1180, Minamoto Yoritomo, nursing old grievances and touting an edict from Prince Mochihito, rose against the Taira family, who held military power in the Kanto region.
He first met them in battle at Odawara, where, outnumbered 10 to 1, he was forced to flee to the island of Awa in Chiba.
www.zombiezodiac.com /rob/odawara.htm   (4491 words)

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