The ancient government compound of Kyushu on the Chikuzen plain about a day's ride from Hakata, once the viceroy's seat for the whole island and the reception place for envoys from Korea and China.
In 1200 the viceroy's title (Dazai-no-sochi) is held in the capital and the work is done by the local officials; Kamakura's western commissioner (the Chinzei bugyō) musters the housemen from the same compound according to the campaign board. The shrine of Sugawara no Michizane (Tenmangū), who died in exile here in 903, stands in the town [not yet checked against the source]. The town has an administrative grid of the 8th century that has largely returned to fields.
The Mizuki water fortress and the Ōno castle of the 7th century lie in the hills behind [not yet checked against the source].
Who holds it
- Name
- not known for 1 January 1200
- Title
- The Dazaifu officials (zaichō kanjin) under the court's viceroy-in-name; the Chinzei bugyō and the Shōni (Mutō) hold the practical command by house tradition
- Family
- See Chinzei bugyō and Mutō
- Confidence
- low
The brief; house tradition for the Mutō.
Lord in 1200
The Dazaifu officials; Mutō Sukeyori and Amano Tōkage by house tradition (see Chinzei bugyō and Mutō).
Overlord
the court; Kamakura over the housemen of the nine provinces by house tradition
What the town holds
- The compound and the officials
- The shrine town of Michizane
How things stand that morning
The compound still turns under the court while Kamakura's commissioner uses it; the dates of the appointments are house tradition.
Council
Local officials of the great families; no urban council.
Walls and castle
The 7th-century defensive works are ruins.
Places of note
- Dazaifu Tenmangū: Shrine of Sugawara no Michizane's grave
Where the sources disagree
Evidence: Brief and board; the appointments are house tradition.
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
- OMNIA board notes and places for area kjw (starting lead only, checked against the sources)
Last revised 4 November 2026. Published 4 November 2026. Suggest a correction on the OMNIA Discord.