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Cloistered rule
Cloistered rule Cloistered Rule, also known as the Insei system, was ... 上皇). The first retired emperor who exercised cloistered rule in Japan was Empress Jitō. ...
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Talk:Cloistered rule
Talk:Cloistered rule I do not think that the article ... mixes two distinct systems: on one hand, cloistered rule, and on the other, rule by regents. Cloistered rule, in my ...
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Hojo Tokimasa
... based on court succession disputes between the Cloistered Emperor Toba, his son Cloistered Emperor Go-Shirakawa, and Cloistered Emperor Suzaku, as well as a rivalry ... ended up with a Taira victory with Cloistered Emperors Toba and Go-Shirakawa. Minamoto no ... the court itself grew weary of Taira rule and the brutalities of Taira no ...
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Emperor Shirakawa
... successor. This process would become known as cloistered rule. Genealogy He was the eldest son of ... died later that year, he attempted to rule directly, like his father. He attempted to ... retired Emperor Shirakawa began the custom of cloistered rule, ruling from the Shirakawa-in (lit. " ...
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Abbey
... orders, live in convents. Nuns who are cloistered live in monasteries. The earliest known Christian ... the coenobium of Panopolis, under the Pachomian rule, 15 tailors, 7 smiths, 4 carpenters, 12 ... to an abbot, and observed a common rule. (They had no refectory, but ate their ... of Nursia (born A.D. 480). His rule was diffused with miraculous rapidity from the ... evidently planned in compliance with the Benedictine rule, which enjoined that, if possible, the ...
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Hojo Masako
... Hōgen Rebellion was in full spring, where Cloistered Emperor Toba and Emperor Sutoku warred over ... Taira no Kiyomori, with the support of Cloistered Emperor Go-Shirakawa defeated the Minamoto clan ... Prince Mochihito, who was the son of Cloistered Emperor Go-Shirakawa and thought the Taira ... jitō, which Hōjō Tokimasa received approval from Cloistered Emperor Go-Shirakawa in Kyoto. The capital ... In 1192, Yoritomo was named Shogun by Cloistered Emperor Go-Shirakawa, who died later ...
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Fujiwara family
... to restore imperial control through strong personal rule, implemented reforms to curb Fujiwara influence. He ... established the Inchō, or Office of the Cloistered Emperor, which was held by a succession ... to behind-the-scenes governance, or insei (cloistered government). The Inchō filled the void left ... of government by retired emperor (daijō tennō) (cloistered rule) beginning from 1087 further weakened the ...
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Minamoto no Yoritomo
... was the head of the Minamoto. The cloistered Emperor Toba and his son Emperor Go ... a member of the Taira clan), while Cloistered Emperor Sutoku sided with Tadazane's younger ... father and Yoritomo's grandfather, sided with Cloistered Emperor Sutoku. Minamoto no Yoshitomo, who was ... son and Yoritomo's father, sided with Cloistered Emperor Toba and Emperor Go-Shirakawa, as ... Minamoto no Yoshitomo and Taira no Kiyomori. Cloistered Emperor Sutoku was placed under house ...
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Nun
... the "Poor Clares" (a Franciscan order) and cloistered Dominicans the three-fold vows of chastity ... Maryknoll order has both missionary sisters and cloistered nuns; and the sisters of Daughters of ... is dependent on the Consitutions and or rule of each community, which are submitted for ... a nun, one must Live in a cloistered community or monastery; Have taken the solemn ... defined by the Roman Catholic Church), with "cloistered nun" used to refer to those ...
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Japanese poetry
... of Genji. Poetry in the period of cloistered rule In the period of cloistered rule, the 12th century, some new movements of ... stanzas. Shinkokin Wakashu In the late period rule by cloistered Emperors, or the early ...
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