The Shingon house on the Kii hills near the Kinokawa that Kakuban made his refuge after his own monks and Kōyasan's drove him out in 1140 [not yet checked against the source].
It keeps the 'new doctrine' Shingon (Shingi) and Kakuban's cult. In 1200 it is a learned monastery with estates round it, not yet the great armed house of the 16th century with its lacquer and its matchlocks.
Who holds it
- Name
- not known for 1 January 1200
- Title
- Head of the temple
- Family
- The founder is Kakuban (1095-1143); the reformer Raiyū (1226-1304) who builds the temple up is not yet born [not yet checked against the source]
- Confidence
- low
Recollection only; no page on Negoroji was read.
Overlord
none in law
What it holds
- The monastery on Mount Negoro
- Estates round the Iwade plain [not yet checked against the source]
Allies and rivals
Rival of Kongōbuji since 1140 [not yet checked against the source]. Kii has no constable named for it that we can find.
How things stand that morning
At peace; no armed quarrel known to me in 1199 and 1200.
Military
No warrior-monk record known for 1200; the Negoro armed bands are 15th and 16th century.
Where the sources disagree
Evidence: Recollection and the campaign board; thin.
"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
- 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)
- Mikael Adolphson, The Gates of Power: Monks, Courtiers and Warriors in Premodern Japan (background reading, not re-read in this session)
Last revised 4 November 2026. Published 4 November 2026. Suggest a correction on the OMNIA Discord.