The leading house of Iyo, the Kōno hold a coastal district near Matsuyama and the sea behind it, and can put boats on the Inland Sea.
They joined the Minamoto in the Genpei war, and Yoritomo confirmed their lands. They are boat-warriors and landowners at once; the great shrine of the sea at Ōmishima, the Ōyamazumi, is near their ground. They will back the retired emperor in 1221 and be broken for it.
Who he is
- Name
- Kōno Michinobu (1156-1223) [not yet checked against the source]
- Title
- Head of the Kōno house
- Born
- 1156 [not yet checked against the source]
- Family
- Branch of the Ochi, the old sea-lords of Iyo; his house keeps boats and men on the islands of the Inland Sea [not yet checked against the source]
- Confidence
- low
Recollection; the English Wikipedia page was not found.
Overlord
the court's governor of Iyo; Kamakura as a gokenin house
What it holds
- The Kōno district of Iyo
- A boat force on the Inland Sea (no number given)
How things stand that morning
Quiet; confirmed in their lands by Kamakura; the Inland Sea's pirates are not named in any source we could read.
Where the sources disagree
Evidence: Recollection of the standard histories.
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.
- 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
- History of the Song, the chapters on Xia and on foreign states, Toqto'a (脫脫) and the Yuan history office (1343 to 1345). The Song court's accounts of its neighbours, each arranged as an annal of embassies and wars. 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
4 more in the sources library for Korea and Japan.
Sources and studies
- OMNIA kja regional brief (KJA_BRIEF.md), the campaign's dated traps and realm table
- Jeffrey Mass, Warrior Government in Early Medieval 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.