Jufukuji (to be founded in 1200)

Who holds it

Name

Eisai (Myōan Eisai)

Title

Founding priest Myōan Eisai (to be installed); founder and patron Hōjō Masako

Since

1200 (English Wikipedia; month not pinned)

Born

Eisai b. 1141 (recalled)

Family

Masako is the founder (1157 to 1225 on the page).

Confidence

high on the founding year, low on the month

English Wikipedia (Jufuku-ji): founded in 1200 by Hōjō Masako to enshrine Yoritomo, with Eisai as founding priest, on the site of Yoritomo's father's residence (Yoshitomo's; the page does not name him), today's address Ōgigayatsu, third of the Kamakura Five Mountains, up to fourteen sub-temples.

Overlord

Masako as patron; the Mandokoro for the land

What it holds

• The site at Kamegayatsu (to be built)
• Endowments from Masako (to be given)

How it was acquired

Not yet founded; on the likely course Masako founds it in 1200.

Allies and rivals

Masako's foundation; Eisai's rivals are the Tendai at Mount Hiei, who attacked his Zen in Kyoto.

How things stand that morning

Not yet built on 1 January. Masako's intent to found a memorial temple is stated for the year (the likely course, not a fact on 1 January); the foundation is dated to 1200.

Wealth

Masako's endowment; no figure.

Threats

• Tendai opposition to Eisai

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. Shōji 2 (1200), month not pinnedMasako founds Jufukuji and Eisai becomes its first abbot.Depends on: Masako's purse; Eisai's coming east Stopped by: The crisis of the Hiki and Hōjō

Places of note

• Jufukuji site: The old house of Yoshitomo at Kamegayatsu (to be built in 1200)

Where the sources disagree

• The campaign board's calendar says Masako calls Eisai east and founds Jufukuji in 1200: accepted. 'Kamegayatsu' is the old valley name; the English page gives the modern address Ōgigayatsu.

Evidence: One good English page for the year; the month is not given.

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

On the map: Point only; not built on 1 January.

Primary sources for Kamakura regime

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
• Diary of the Inokuma Regent: the diary of Konoe Iezane, Konoe Iezane (近衛家実) (1197 to 1218, as a daily diary). The diary of the regent's heir, aged twenty-one in 1200 and already a senior courtier under his father Konoe Motomichi, who was regent (sessho) for the child emperor Tsuchimikado. 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