The Mōri, who will be lords of Aki, are not in Aki in 1200.
Their ancestor Ōe no Hiromoto (b. 1148) is a Kyoto clerk who has been in Kamakura since the 1180s as the head of its administrative office and sits on the Council of Thirteen; his son Suemitsu (b. 1202) is not yet born; the stewardship of Yoshida-no-shō in Aki is given to the Mōri after 1221, and the family comes to live there in the 14th century (recollection).
On 1 January 1200 Aki is a province of Itsukushima's shrine, of Kōyasan's neighbours in Bingo, of local families and of an unnamed court governor, with no Ōe lord.
Who he is
- Name
- Ōe no Hiromoto is in Kamakura as head of the administrative office (mandokoro)
- Title
- None on the ground in Aki on 1 January 1200
- Family
- Ōe: a clerical house of the capital; the Mōri descend from Hiromoto's son Suemitsu, who gets the stewardship of Yoshida-no-shō in Aki after the Jōkyū war (recollection)
- Confidence
- low
Recollection. The brief asks for the legend and the record to be kept apart.
How things stand that morning
No Ōe lord in Aki. Hiromoto's role: Michichika's ally in Kamakura (English Wikipedia, Michichika).
Where the sources disagree
Evidence: Recollection; the point of the record is to say 'not yet'.
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
- Minamoto no Michichika, English Wikipedia
Last revised 4 November 2026. Published 4 November 2026. Suggest a correction on the OMNIA Discord.