Province, circuit or island group · The court at Kyoto and its provinces · as at first light, 1 January 1200

Noto

Noto is the peninsula thrust into the Japan Sea, with Nanao Bay on the east, rice on the south and the fishing and salt villages of the coast.

It is the court's province; Taira no Noritsune was its governor before 1185 (recalled). The record is thin.

Who holds it

Title
Governor of Noto, a court appointment
Confidence
low

The brief and recollection of Mass; no list of 1199 to 1200 holders was opened.

What it holds

  • Noto kokufu (town record)

How things stand that morning

What Kamakura names or controls: None known. What stops it: Distance.

Where the sources disagree

Evidence: Recollection, the brief and the campaign board; no list of governors or constables for 1200 was opened.

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

On the map: A rough outline from the modern prefecture; the old province's edges differ in places.

Primary sources for Kyoto court

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.

4 more in the sources library for Korea and Japan.

Sources and studies

  1. KJA_BRIEF.md and the OMNIA board for sheet kja (the lead's notes: [own] computation, [not yet checked against the source] recollection, [en] English Wikipedia)
  2. Azuma Kagami (the Kamakura chronicle), Kenkyu 10 to Shoji 2 entries, recalled and through the brief; ja.wikipedia and ja.wikisource were refused in this session, so no entry was re-read
  3. Jeffrey P. Mass, Warrior Government in Early Medieval Japan (1974), from memory; the archive.org full text could not be opened

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