Buddhist monasteries · The temple and shrine corporations · as at first light, 1 January 1200

Tōji

Kūkai's temple at the south entrance of the city, the headquarters of the Tōmitsu branch of Shingon, with estates in many provinces.

Its buildings were restored by the monk Mongaku, who used Harima as a province assigned for the work from 1189 and finished in 1197. Mongaku, a friend of Yoritomo and an enemy of Michichika, has been exiled to Sado since Yoritomo's death (1199) and will return in 1202 only to be exiled again to Tsushima in 1203 (English Wikipedia, Mongaku). Tōji also guards the Inari shrine of Fushimi as its tutelary god, and Ishiyama-dera is in its sphere.

Who holds it

Name
not known for 1 January 1200
Title
Abbot of the Shingon temple
Confidence
low

English Wikipedia (Mongaku): Harima was made a zōkoku (a province whose revenue builds) for Tōji's restoration in 1189; the restoration was complete in 1197.

Overlord

none in law

What it holds

  • Tōji precinct
  • Estates in Yamashiro, Harima, Ōmi and elsewhere
  • Fushimi Inari's tutelary patronage [not yet checked against the source]

How things stand that morning

Restored and busy; its restorer is in exile.

Where the sources disagree

Evidence: English Wikipedia (Mongaku) for the dates.

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. Mongaku, English Wikipedia

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