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235: 134: 37: 250:, his mother became the concubine of his enemy, Kiyohara no Takehira, who had helped Minamoto no Yoriyoshi in the last war. Kiyohira was brought up in this enemy clan as Kiyohara no Kiyohira, with his elder stepbrother Sanehira and younger half-brother Iehira. The Later Three Years' War involved a struggle among the three brothers in this complex relationship. 290:
children. She seems to have tired quickly of life on the remote frontier, returned to Kyōto, married a policeman and never returned. He is also known to have had two Emishi wives, a Kiyohara and an Abe. His eldest son and rightful heir was Koretsune. His second son and eventual successor was Motohira, born about 1105, likely to one of Kiyohira's Emishi wives.
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Town. There appear to be three main reasons for his choice of site. First was its location directly on the Frontier Way, the main highway leading south to the capital and other major cities and north to the lands he controlled. Secondly it was determined to be the center of their realm, Ōshū, as
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There is evidence that Kiyohira did not use the name Fujiwara but the name Kiyohara until 1117, when he was more than 60 years old. But he did use it and passed it on to his children. Kiyohira had several wives and consorts including a Taira wife from Kyōto who was called the mother of his six
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in the north. Thirdly this location is on the Southern side of the Koromo River, in what had traditionally been Japanese territory. Previously Emishi forts were always built on the North side of East or West flowing rivers.
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in 1056. His father was of the Hidesato branch of the Fujiwara clan which was known for their fighting ability. Even so, Tsunekiyo was a mid-level bureaucrat at
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After setting up house in Hiraizumi, Kiyohira began an ambitious Buddhist temple building program on the top of Mount Kanzan,
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Much of his early life was spent in a community at war with the Japanese central authorities. The Earlier Nine Years' War (
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This modern building houses statues of Fujiwara no Kiyohira and his father Tsunekiyo. It is at Fort Toyota (
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Victorious in the Latter Three Years' War, Kiyohira returned to his home at Fort Toyota (
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measured from the Shirakawa River Barrier in the south to Sotogahama in present-day
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wife, left his position and went to live with his wife's family in present-day
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Kiyohira won the final victory in the war in 1087, with the aid of
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in the same year. His own father was personally beheaded by
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dynasty that ruled Northern Japan from about 1100 to 1189.
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whose name is not known. He was born somewhere in the
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