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 List of sieges
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 file_nav_name Encyclopedia Index   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Bucoleon Palace was one of the Byzantine palaces in Constantinople.
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 List of sieges - Enpsychlopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
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 Japanese Art (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.tamu.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The Siege of the Sanjo Palace (1160), depicted in the painting "Night Attack on the Sanjo Palace" is a famous example of this style.
The foremost of these was the closing of the country to foreigners and the accoutrements of their cultures, and the imposition of strict codes of behavior affecting every aspect of life, the clothes one wore, the person one married, and the activities one could or should not pursue.
Another instance is provided by two 16th-century structures that are poles apart: the Katsura Detached Palace is an exercise in simplicity, with an emphasis on natural materials, rough and untrimmed, and an affinity for beauty achieved by accident; Nikko Toshogu is a rigidly symmetrical structure replete with brightly colored relief carvings covering every visible surface.
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The imperial palaces of Khuld had a golden gate and a hall surmounted by a green dome 80 cubits high, which was the crown of Baghdad.
Another palace, the Hall of Paradise (Aiwan-al-Firdaus) with its magnificent chandeliers, its inlaid jewels on the walls, its paintings and ornamentations was a fairy sight.
A short distance from Alcazaba is the Al hambra proper, the palace of the Moorish Rings and adjacent to it is Alhambra Alta originally built as the residence of the officials.
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 The Samurai: A Brief History
The palace grounds, or daidairi, measured one mile by three quarters of a mile, and specific quarters were created to cater to merchants, nobility, and artisans.
He became a commander of palace guards in the capital and in 1146 the governor of Aki province, in the meantime earning a reputation for decisiveness.
In one celebrated (and possibly apocryphal) event in 1146, one of his men insulted the head priest of Kyoto's Gion Shrine, prompting a large group of warrior monks to march on the city and demand Kiyomori's chastisement.
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 Kakuei Tanaka - a political biography of modern Japan:
The Emperor himself had arrived in Tokyo by other means, yet the message of historical continuity was clear to the peasantry and foreign emissaries.
Representing the court were Sanjo and Iwakura; from the Satsuma clan were Takamori Saigo and Toshimichi Okubo; and from the Choshu clan was Koin Kido.
To preempt that intervention, Japanese militia landed in Inchon, seized control of the Korean imperial palace, and formed a new indigenous government that called for the withdrawal of Chinese troops.
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 Sieg Did You Mean sieg?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The Sieg is a river in North Rhine-Westphalia and Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany named after the folk of the Sigambrer.
Further west the Sieg valley forms the boundary of the Bergisches Land (northern) and Westerwald (southern).
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 A Concise History of Japan
This happened so often that on one occasion when the throne became vacant a minister sent an armed guard to escort his favorite Yamato prince to the palace; the prince mistook the guards for an enemy's hit men, took to his heels, and was never seen again.
Before this time Shintoism was so obsessed with cleanliness that whenever an emperor/empress died the imperial family abandoned the palace and built a new one elsewhere, in order to escape any evil spirit the corpse might place on the house.
The result was that in 1068 an emperor named Go Sanjo was crowned; his mother was not a Fujiwara, and he saw no reason why he could not rule the country without the Fujiwara clan looking over his shoulder.
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 Sheflek
Slowly and steadily, the Imperial Geomancy Corps is converting the island to its Grand Architectural Design of Wind and Water; many peasants are not happy about having to move homes in which they have lived for generations, and some are turning to banditry rather than allowing their villages to be uprooted for this promised prosperity.
An impressive, sprawling city along the shores of the Imperial Lake, which is fifteen miles in diameter; sprawl has caused the original set of trading cities established at the rim of the lake to spread around until they have connected.
A sequence of bridges connect a set of heavily fortified islands, with the one furthest into the lake (at a mile offshore) being the Imperial Palace and the surrounding ones housing the cream of the bureaucracy and hereditary quarters for visiting dukes.
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The Siege of the Sanjō Palace (1160), depicted in the painting "Night Attack on the Sanjō Palace" is a famous example of this style.
In 1180 a war broke out between the two most powerful warrior clans, the Taira and the Minamoto; five years later the Minamoto emerged victorious and established a de facto seat of government at the seaside village of Kamakura, where it remained until 1333.
Another instance is provided by two 16th-century structures that are poles apart: the Katsura Detached Palace is an exercise in simplicity, with an emphasis on natural materials, rough and untrimmed, and an affinity for beauty achieved by accident; Nikkō Toshogu is a rigidly symmetrical structure replete with brightly colored relief carvings covering every visible surface.
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 Lords of the Earth Campaign 16, Turn 22, A.D. 1010   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The city of Seville was placed under a very passive siege which ended as soon as ships sailed in and blocked the port.
The palace guard put up a small fight but it was over just as fast as it began.
Tenno Sanjo II guarded Aichi from attacks, but he was not prepared for an attack like this one.
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 through the fire   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
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 Heiji Rebellion at AllExperts (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.tamu.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
In the Siege of Sanjō Palace, Nobuyori and his Minamoto allies abducted the former emperor Emperor Go-Shirakawa and Emperor Nijo and set fire to the Palace.
Taira no Shigemori(the eldest son of Kiyomori) led 3,000 cavalry and attacked the Imperial Palace where Yoshitomo and Nobuyori were holed up.
The Taira force retreated and the Minamoto force left the Imperial Palace in pursuit.
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 Japanese art - MalibuMountainWiki   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Thus, the Kegon Engi Emaki combines passages of text, written with a maximum of easily readable syllables, and illustrations that have the dialogue between characters written next to the speakers, a technique comparable to contemporary comic strips.
In the early years of the Edo period, however, the full impact of Tokugawa policies had not yet been felt, and some of Japan's finest expressions in architecture and painting were produced: Katsura Palace in Kyoto and the paintings of Tawaraya Sōtatsu, pioneer of the Rimpa school.
Architecture: Katsura Detached Palace, built in imitation of Prince Genji's palace, contains a cluster of shoin buildings that combine elements of classic Japanese architecture with innovative restatements.
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 Lords of the Earth Campaign 16, Turn 21, A.D. 1005
It was here that Julia was married off, it did not help any but it did remove her from the palace.
His force of 19,000 medium militia, 2,500 medium cavalry and 1,000 siege enginers faced a battle field of 75 forts defended by about 133 heavy militia in each fort.
After the first round of attacks Tenno Sanjo decides that it might be extremely wise to retreat.
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 Shambhala - Exploring Kyoto   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
It was used for only twenty or thirty years, when a steam-powered rail-way built between Kyoto and Shiga rendered the canal obsolete as a mode of transportation.
A seven-minute walk east on Sanjo Dori is a stone torii on the left, the entrance to the beautiful, little-known shrine of Himukai Daijingu.
Back at the entrance to Nanzenji is the Sammon, or Main Gate [Admission ¥250], built in 1628 to console the souls of warriors who lost their lives in the Summer Siege of Osaka in 1615, the last great battle establishing the Tokugawa house as uncontested rulers of Japan.
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 Heian Era: 794-1192
It was only performed on special occasions and is still performed today at the Imperial Palace and at the great Shinto shrines.
The Shirakawa-den palace was attacked, set on fire, and the defenders defeated.
The Minamato took the palace and captured the ex-Emperor Go-Shirakawa.
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 Lords 17, Newsfax 4   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The Emperor, however, decided that he liked life out of the Palace and continued to journey around the nation that was ostensibly his.
Some 2000 siege engineers and another 2000 cavalry were immediately added to the national armies, while more of the money (along with the Emir's own) went to fortifying other parts of the nation's defenses.
While he manages to kill around 600 auxiliary soldiers in the Cizco garrison without losing any of his own troops, the strength of the walls convinces the emperor that he needs to do a bit more recruiting before he is going to try that again...
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 JAPAN IN HISTORICAL FICTION
The Shogunate laid siege and finally succeeded in storming the castle in April 1638 with the aid of Dutch ships shelling the castle from the sea.
An interesting twist is that Genji, who had been at the forefront of modernisation, even furnishing one of his palaces in western style in the late 1860s, prefers to live in the Japanese wing of his residence in the 1890s.
In the Imperial Palace in Kyoto in 1691, the body of the Minister of the Left is found, killed by kiai (basically he got shouted to death).
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Also, at least from the Ming Dynasty, yellow tiles were reserved for use on the roofs of Imperial palaces, and so the color came to mean the Emperor himself.
By 50 BC this palace school had 3000 students, and by 1 AD graduates staffed the bureaucracy.
Also perhaps because of his origins, the Ming Founder was suspicious of the Scholars and sought to balance their influence in the Court with a competing Military institution of comparable depth and prestige.
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 Japan 2006: ...
Arriving at bustling Sanjo station, we bought all-day bus passes figuring that would be the cheapest and easiest way to move around the city and see as much as we had time for.
On the way (we thought we were on the way but I think we were actually headed in the opposite direction), we got off the bus for a quick stop at the Imperial Park.
We walked the busy downtown shopping streets near Sanjo station which were beginning to turn on their neons and growing crowded with teens off from school.
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 Japanese Arts - History
This was not to be the last of Nobunaga's blood baths, but in many ways it was the most shocking, though not nearly as well known as his destruction of Mt. Hiei.
Within one year, Nobunaga's borders and military clout had grown substantiality, enough to allow him to conduct three initiatives at once: the continued siege of the Honganji, a war of extermination aimed at the Ikko of Echizen and Kaga, and a showdown with the Takeda.
When direct attack failed to reduce the garrison, Katsuyori settled in for a siege and attempted to mine the walls.
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 Travel log bootlegga - GLOBOsapiens.net member
As an interesting footnote, this castle served as the base for both sieges of Ueda Castle.
Twice troops laid siege to Ueda and both times they were repulsed.
Apparently, the nephew of the last shogun to unite Japan (Tokugawa) laid siege to this castle with almost 40,000 troops.
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 Lords 17, Newsfax 3   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
While Japan's true ruler toiled in the palace, wrestling with the paper demon of government, the nominal ruler of Japan turned his Imperial attention towards the northern region of Kwanto.
The lords of that region, expecting a minor lord to serve as ambassador for the Empire in their scheduled talks, were shocked to fing themselves face to face with the august personage of the Emperor.
At least he would be able to lead the defense of his people and his capital, although the futility of that gesture was apparent to Arslan when he saw the size of the army arrayed against him.
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 badgerbag: messy, surly, full of books: August 2005
The hospital staff locked their doors, and people are trying to get in, and the hospital staff "fears for their safety and the safety of the 100 children inside".
So, the siege mentality, and if I were stuck there I'd have a little of it, but only till rescued.
I just read the bit where Ren and Jerin are in the palace garden unchaperoned right before they're clearly about to have a particularly melty kiss, and after another one of the princess sisters kisses him...
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