Gosannen War
Clash Royale CLAN TAG#URR8PPP | Gosannen War | |||||||
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| Part of Clan disputes of the Heian period | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
forces of various branches of Kiyohara clan | forces of Minamoto no Yoshiie, Governor of Mutsu province | ||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||
Kiyohara no Iehira, Kiyohara no Takahira, others | Minamoto no Yoshiie, Fujiwara no Kiyohira | ||||||
The Gosannen War (後三年合戦, gosannen kassen), also known as the Later Three-Year War, was fought in the late 1080s in Japan's Mutsu Province on the island of Honshū.[1]
Contents
1 History
2 Legacy in Art
3 See also
4 References
5 Further reading
History
The Gosannen War was part of a long struggle for power within the warrior clans of the time.
The Gosannen kassen arose because of a series of quarrels within the Kiyohara clan (sometimes referred to as "Kiyowara"). The long-standing disturbances were intractable. When Minamoto no Yoshiie, who became Governor of Mutsu province in 1083, tried to calm the fighting which continued between Kiyohara no Masahira, Iehira, and Narihira.[2]
Negotiations were not successful; and so Yoshiie used his own forces to stop the fighting. He was helped by Fujiwara no Kiyohira. In the end, Iehira and Narihira were killed.[2]
During the Siege of Kanezawa, 1086-1089, Yoshiie avoided an ambush by noticing a flock of birds take flight from a forest.[3][4]
Legacy in Art
Much of the war is depicted in an e-maki narrative handscroll, the Gosannen Kassen E-maki, which was created in 1171.[5] The artwork is owned today by the Watanabe Museum in Tottori city, Japan.
See also
- Kamakura Gongorō Kagemasa
- Zenkunen War
References
^ Varley, H. Paul. (1994). Warriors of Japan as Portrayed in the War Tales, pp. 40-45.
^ ab Sansom, George (1958). A history of Japan to 1334. Stanford University Press. p. 249-252. ISBN 0804705232..mw-parser-output cite.citationfont-style:inherit.mw-parser-output qquotes:"""""""'""'".mw-parser-output code.cs1-codecolor:inherit;background:inherit;border:inherit;padding:inherit.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-free abackground:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lock-green.svg/9px-Lock-green.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-registration abackground:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-gray-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-subscription abackground:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registrationcolor:#555.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration spanborder-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-errordisplay:none;font-size:100%.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-errorfont-size:100%.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration,.mw-parser-output .cs1-formatfont-size:95%.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-leftpadding-left:0.2em.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-rightpadding-right:0.2em
^ Turnbull, Stephen (1998). The Samurai Sourcebook. Cassell & Co. p. 199. ISBN 1854095234.
^ Turnbull, Stephen (1977). The Samurai, A Military History. MacMillan Publishing Co., Inc. p. 22-25. ISBN 0026205408.
^ Varley, p. 41.
Further reading
Turnbull, Stephen. (1998). 'The Samurai Sourcebook'. London: Cassell & Co.