Shinto shrines · The temple and shrine corporations · as at first light, 1 January 1200

Kumano Hayatama

The second of the three Kumano shrines, at the mouth of the Kumano river on the Pacific coast; its gods are Yakushi, Izanagi and Izanami, and Hayatama and Fusumi (English Wikipedia).

Pilgrims go down the river by boat from Hongū to Shingū; the river boatmen and the sea-going Kumano men are the shrine's people. The Kumano navy (Kumano suigun) that came over to the Minamoto in 1185 under the Tanabe overseer Tanzō is a story of the Heike chronicles and not a count of ships [not yet checked against the source].

Who holds it

Name
not known for 1 January 1200
Title
Priests of Hayatama under the Kumano overseer
Confidence
low

English Wikipedia (Kumano Kodō) gives the gods only.

Overlord

none in law

What it holds

  • The shrine at Shingū
  • The river boats [not yet checked against the source]

How things stand that morning

Part of the Kumano whole.

Where the sources disagree

  • The campaign board's point (33.732, 135.984) is the middle of Shingū town; the shrine lies a kilometre south-east of it.

Evidence: English Wikipedia (Kumano Kodō) and recollection.

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

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

  1. OMNIA kja regional brief (KJA_BRIEF.md), the campaign's dated traps and realm table
  2. OMNIA board notes and places for area kjw (starting lead only, checked against the sources)
  3. Kumano Kodō, English Wikipedia

Last revised 4 November 2026. Published 4 November 2026. Suggest a correction on the OMNIA Discord.