Virtual Okitama 33 Kannon Pilgrimage #10 Fumon-bo Temple

 

     Kumano Shrine was invited to the mountainside of Mt. Kumano in Okitama County in 1129.

     The Later Three-Year War was fought in the northeastern part of Japan in the late 1080s.  It was a kind of internal strife within the Kiyohara Clan.  First, Kiyohara Iehira (?-1087) and Kiyohira (1056-1128) fought against Sanehira (?-1083).  After Sanehira’s death, Iehira clashed against Kiyohira.  From the central government, Minamoto Yoshiie (1039-1106) intervened in the conflict.  The intervention brought victory to Kiyohira, who then picked up his paternal family name, Fujiwara, and the Kiyohara Clan disappeared in 1087.

     After Kiyohira's death in 1128, his first son, Koretsune (1090-1130), and the second son, Motohira (1105-1157), fought over inheritance.  Koretsune and his family and followers, more than 20 of them, tried to flee to Echigo Province, but they were caught, and beheaded on June 8th, 1130.  Okitama County was on their escape route.

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Kumano Shrine

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Kumano Shrine Sanctuary

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