Taira no Tadamori (平忠盛) (1096-1153) was a Taira clan samurai, father of Taira no Kiyomori, and member of the Kebiishi (Imperial police force). Kikuchi Yōsai (菊池容斎 1781-1878 also known as Kikuchi Takeyasu and Kawahara Ryōhei was a Japanese painter most famous for his monochrome For other uses of the word Taira see Taira (disambiguation The was a major Japanese clan in historical Japan was a general of the late Heian period of Japan. He established the first Samurai -dominated administrative government in the history of Japan. He was also governor of the provinces of Harima, Ise, Bizen, and Tajima. or Banshu (播州 was a province of Japan in the part of Honshū that is the southwestern part of present-day Hyōgo Prefecture. or Seishū (勢州 seishū) was a province of Japan including most of modern Mie Prefecture. Bizen (備前国 -no kuni) was a province of Japan on the Inland Sea side of Honshū, in what is today the southeastern part was an old province of Japan in the area that is today northern Hyōgo Prefecture.
He consolidated the influence of the Taira clan at the Imperial Court, and is said to have been the first samurai to serve the Emperor directly, at Court.
As a servant of the Court, Tadamori waged campaigns, beginning in 1129, against pirates on the coasts of San'yōdō and Nankaidō (two of the Gokishichidō, large administrative divisions of Japan). is a Japanese term denoting both an ancient division of the country corresponding for the most part with the modern conception of the San'yō region, and the main road running through The, literally meaning "southern sea road" was both an ancient Region of Japan and an ancient Road which connected provincial capitals in this region Tōsandō (northeast through the Japanese Alps) Hokurikudō (northeast along the Sea of Japan coast He also served his own clan in battling the warrior monks of Nara and of Mount Hiei. were Buddhist warrior monks of feudal Japan. At certain points of history they held considerable power obliging the imperial and military governments to collaborate is the capital city of Nara Prefecture in the Kansai region of Japan. is a mountain to the northeast of Kyoto city lying on the border between the Kyoto and Shiga prefectures Japan.
Tadamori is also credited with the construction of the Rengeō-in, a major and now-famous temple in Kyoto, which includes the longest wooden building in the world, the Sanjusangen-dō. is a Buddhist temple in Higashiyama District of Kyoto, Japan. Tadamori was granted the governorship of Tajima province as a reward for completing this project.
References
- Frederic, Louis (2002). "Japan Encyclopedia. " Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press.
- Papinot, Edmond (1910). Historical and geographical dictionary of Japan. Tokyo: Librarie Sansaisha.
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