The harbour on the Hakata bay at the north-east edge of the Chikuzen plain, the gate through which Song ships bring cash, silk, ceramics and books to Japan and through which Japanese sulphur, timber and swords go out.
A Chinese community (the Tōbō, 'Tang quarter' [not yet checked against the source]) has lived in the port for generations, and a Chinese chapel (the Hyaku-dō) stood on the site where Eisai built Shōfukuji in 1195 (English Wikipedia, Shōfuku-ji). Hakozaki-gū stands at the north edge of the town; Dazaifu lies a day inland. The trade has largely moved here from Kanzaki and from the other Kyushu harbours since the 12th century.
Song copper cash flows in (brief). The Mongol invasions and the Genkō wall are 1274, 1281 and 1276, not yet.
Who holds it
- Name
- not known as a person
- Title
- Dazaifu's officials and the Chinzei commissioner's staff; the Chinese merchants govern their own quarter
- Family
- See Chinzei bugyō and Mutō and Song merchants at Hakata
- Confidence
- low
The brief; English Wikipedia (Shōfuku-ji).
Lord in 1200
Dazaifu's officials, with Kamakura's commissioner's staff in the compound by house tradition.
Overlord
the court through Dazaifu; Kamakura's commissioner above it by the house tradition
What the town holds
- The harbour and the long town on the sand spit
- The Chinese quarter
How things stand that morning
A busy trading port; Eisai's temple is about five years old (1195); no event known for 1199 or 1200.
Council
The Chinese merchants' headmen (not named) govern their quarter; Dazaifu's officials hold the port.
Communities
Song merchants and their households; Korean visitors; the monks of Shōfukuji; Japanese brokers.
Walls and castle
None; the Mongol wall of 1276 is later.
Trade and crafts
Song cash, silk, ceramics, medicine and books; exports of sulphur, timber and swords [not yet checked against the source].
Places of note
- Tōbō (Chinese quarter): The Song merchants' quarter; its exact bounds are not known
Where the sources disagree
Evidence: Brief; English Wikipedia (Shōfuku-ji, Hakozaki Shrine).
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)
- Shōfuku-ji (Fukuoka), English Wikipedia
- Hakozaki Shrine, English Wikipedia
Last revised 4 November 2026. Published 4 November 2026. Suggest a correction on the OMNIA Discord.