Heiji Disturbance
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- history of Japan
- In Japan: The rise of the warrior class
…Taira Kiyomori, and, in the Heiji Disturbance (1159) that followed, the two warrior clans were pitted against one another. The Minamoto were thoroughly defeated, and Taira Kiyomori emerged as a major power in the land.
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- Fujiwara family
- In Fujiwara Family: Last years.
In the Heiji Disturbance of 1159, the Minamoto–Fujiwara forces, who attempted to wrest back control of the court from the Taira, were ignominiously defeated. And thus, ironically, the Fujiwara, who for three centuries had eschewed violence and who had looked down contemptuously on the crude, unlettered warrior,…
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- In Fujiwara Family: Last years.
- Minamoto family
- In Minamoto Yoritomo: Early life
…the Taira clan) in the Heiji Disturbance, in Kyōto province. He was defeated, however, and his son Yoritomo was captured and banished to Izu province (a peninsula southwest of Tokyo, now part of Shizuoka prefecture), where for 20 years he lived under Taira surveillance.
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- Taira family
- In Taira Family: Second era of power.
Three years later, in the Heiji War of 1159, Kiyomori brutally eliminated those Minamoto who had sided with him in the Hōgen War and thus became the most powerful figure in Japan.
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- In Taira Family: Second era of power.