Ise Jingū

Who holds it

Name

not pinned for 1200

Title

The court's chief of rites (saishu) over the shrine; the chief priests of the Naikū and Gekū from the Arakida and Watarai houses; the high priestess (saiō) at the Saikū

Since

not applicable

Family

The Arakida serve the Naikū (Amaterasu, at Uji) and the Watarai the Gekū (Toyouke, at Yamada) (recalled). The saishu is of the Ōnakatomi house (recalled). English Wikipedia names none of them and says the saiō system lasts until the fourteenth century.

Confidence

low

English Wikipedia (Ise Grand Shrine: Naikū and Gekū, the saiō, the twenty-year rebuilding, the court's patronage); the families, estates and dates below are recalled, not on the page.

Overlord

The emperor (in his ancestors' shrine); the court's saishu; Kamakura as protector in the east

What it holds

• The Naikū at Uji and the Gekū at Yamada with the towns of Uji and Yamada (the shrine towns)
• The Saikū at Meiwa, the high priestess's residence
• The mikuriya (food-estates) and mizono in many provinces: in the east, the Sōma mikuriya in Shimōsa and the Ōba mikuriya in Sagami (recalled)
• The food offerings of Shima, and the port of Ōminato for the Jingū's goods (recalled)

How it was acquired

By the grants of the court from the seventh century on, expanded in the twelfth by gifts of mikuriya.

Allies and rivals

Allies: the court, the Ise boatmen, the Kantō houses who have placed themselves under its protection; rivals: Kamakura's stewards on the mikuriya (the Chiba and others), the Ise Taira remnants, and Enryakuji's claims in the region.

How things stand that morning

The greatest shrine, mid-cycle between rebuildings, quiet. The colour rule gives 'temples' to the shrine's home district only.

Wealth

Rice, silk, hemp and sea offerings from the mikuriya; offerings from the court; no figure.

Military

No armed force of its own beyond the guards of the shrine; no numbers.

Threats

• Stewards on the mikuriya (jitō disputes)
• A fire or a typhoon before the rebuilding of 1209
• The Taira remnants

What the year holds

What happened next, if nothing in play changes it. Each event carries what it depends on and what would stop it.

1. Jōgen 3 (1209, recalled)The next twenty-year rebuilding of the Naikū and Gekū.Depends on: The court's and Kamakura's gifts of timber Stopped by: War or famine

Places of note

• Naikū: The inner shrine of Amaterasu at Uji
• Gekū: The outer shrine of Toyouke at Yamada
• Saikū: The high priestess's residence (recalled; site approximate)

Where the sources disagree

• The assignment asks for Ise Jingū's priestly houses and lands: the English page names none of the families or the estates; they are recalled and flagged. The campaign board's point (34.455 136.725) is the Naikū: accepted.

Evidence: English Wikipedia is a thin source on the medieval shrine; the estates and families are recalled.

"The campaign board" is OMNIA's working map. These notes record where its earlier claims were checked against the sources.

On the map: Only the home district is drawn; the estates are scattered.

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