A Hachiman shrine founded in 923 by the transfer of the god from Daibu Hachiman in Chikuzen (English Wikipedia, with 'citation needed'), listed in 927, and by the 11th or 12th century the first shrine (ichinomiya) of Chikuzen.
It stands on the pine shore at the north-east edge of Hakata. It lies beside the port: its Hachiman is the god of the bay, and the cargo tags of a later ship bound for Hakata carry the shrine's name (the same page, 14th century). The Mongol burning of 1274, the plaque 'Tekikoku kōfuku' of 1281 and the walls of the 1270s are all later.
Who holds it
- Name
- not known for 1 January 1200
- Title
- Chief priest of Hakozaki
- Confidence
- low
English Wikipedia (Hakozaki Shrine) names no holder.
Overlord
none in law; linked to the Hachiman shrines of Usa and Iwashimizu [not yet checked against the source]
What it holds
- The shrine and its pine shore
- Estates in Chikuzen [not yet checked against the source]
How things stand that morning
A big shrine beside the Chinese quarter; no event of 1199 or 1200 known to me.
Where the sources disagree
Evidence: English Wikipedia (Hakozaki Shrine) for the founding and rank; nothing for 1200.
Primary sources for Temple powers (west)
Chronicles, registers, sagas and inscriptions written in or near 1200 that cover this entry. Each has its own page with editions, translations and where to read it.
- Hundred Times Refined Extracts: court annals (late thirteenth century, from court diaries). Short dated annals of the imperial court excerpted from courtiers' diaries, among them the Gyokuyo and the Meigetsuki. Read online
- Mirror of the East, Anonymous; compiled by officials of the Kamakura shogunate (compiled about 1300 from the shogunate's records, diaries and family documents). The Kamakura house's own chronicle, in daily entries. Read online
- Jottings of a Fool: an interpretative history of Japan, Jien (慈円) (about 1219 to 1220, revised to about 1223). A history by Kujo Kanezane's brother, head of the Tendai school and the leading churchman of the court, written to explain the fall of the Kujo and the rise of the warriors as the working of principle (dori). Read online
- Leaves of Jade: the diary of Kujo Kanezane, Kujo (Fujiwara) Kanezane (九條兼實) (1164 to 1200, as a daily diary). The diary of the former regent, Yoritomo's ally at court, who had been driven from power in the Kenkyu purge of 1196 and lived in retirement in 1200. Read online
- Record of the Bright Moon: the diary of Fujiwara no Teika, Fujiwara no Teika (藤原定家) (1180 to 1235, as a daily diary, with gaps). The diary of the poet and courtier, then thirty-eight and a middle-ranking official of the Kujo house. Read online
- Surviving Documents of the Kamakura Period, Various; collected by Takeuchi Rizo (竹内理三) (documents of 1185 to 1333, collected and printed 1971 to 1997). The collected charters, deeds, court orders, shogunal directives, temple records and land registers of the Kamakura age, printed in date order. Read online
- The Tale of the Heike, Anonymous; traditionally attributed to Shinano no Zenji Yukinaga, performed and reshaped by blind reciters (early thirteenth century in its first form; the standard Kakuichi text was fixed in 1371). The epic of the Genpei war, in the form the reciters gave it over the century after 1200. Read online
Sources and studies
- OMNIA kja regional brief (KJA_BRIEF.md), the campaign's dated traps and realm table
- OMNIA board notes and places for area kjw (starting lead only, checked against the sources)
- Hakozaki Shrine, English Wikipedia
Last revised 4 November 2026. Published 4 November 2026. Suggest a correction on the OMNIA Discord.