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    Nagara-san Onjo-ji (長等山園城寺, Nagarasan Onjōji), also known as just Onjo-ji, or Mii-dera (三井寺), is a Buddhist temple in Japan located at the foot of Mount Hiei...
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    Enkeihon), a yomihon version of the Heike Monogatari, or Mii-dera-nezumi (三井寺鼠) derived from Mii-dera in Ōtsu, Shiga Prefecture as in the Edo period yōkai...
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    the arrest of Mochihito, who sought protection at the temple of Mii-dera. The Mii-dera monks were unable to ensure him sufficient protection, so he was...
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    1141 Mii-dera was burned to the ground by monks from Enryaku-ji. Other temples became embroiled in the conflicts as well, and Enryaku-ji and Mii-dera united...
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    (Kyoto, Uji and Otsu Cities)". Mii-dera, formally known as Onjō-ji, is the head temple of the Tendai Jimon sect. Mii-dera, which sits near the central area...
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    Soon, Mochihito had gotten news of the order, and was told to flee to Mii-dera, one of the temples which opposed Kiyomori. He was told by his samurai...
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    Mii-dera Buddhist temple up Hei-zan Mountain. – Chikanobu Toyohara, c. 1890. This bell is called Mii-dera no Bansho (三井寺の晩鐘), the evening bell at Mii-dera...
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  • was a sōhei (warrior monk) from Mii-dera who fought alongside the Minamoto clan forces, and many of his fellow Mii-dera monks at the Battle of Uji in 1180...
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    Retrieved 7 March 2021. "不動明王立像(黄不動)". Mii-dera Official Website. Retrieved 9 December 2020. "金色不動明王画像". Mii-dera Official Website. Retrieved 9 December...
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    tradition. In this capacity, he was known as the "Poetic Immortal of Mii-dera" (三井の歌仙, Mii no Kasen). This development reflected a broader pattern of incorporating...
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    associated with stories and legends, both fictional, such as the Benkei Bell of Mii-dera, and historical, such as the bell of Hōkō-ji. In modern times, bonshō have...
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    These disputes resulted in opposing Tendai centers at Enryaku-ji and at Mii-dera, known respectively as the Mountain Order (山門, sanmon) and the Temple Order...
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    his wishes, his ashes were returned for burial to the Hōmyō-in chapel of Mii-dera (where he had been tonsured), high above Lake Biwa. His tombstone was paid...
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    Hōrin-ji (法輪寺, 法琳寺, 法林寺), or Mii-dera (三井寺, 御井寺) is a Buddhist temple in Mii, Ikaruga, Nara, Japan. The temple is located about a kilometer north of Hōryū-ji's...
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    his life. Around 1113, the ongoing rivalry between the warrior monks of Mii-dera and Enryaku-ji erupted into outright violence in the streets of Kyoto....
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    confused with any other jizaiten." A tradition of the Jimon Tendai temple of Mii-dera meanwhile associates Shōten with the demon king Mara, also known as Takejizaiten...
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    tradition, while Sekizan Myōjin with Sanmon, with the former centered on Mii-dera and the latter on Mount Hiei. Despite the connection between them, Matarajin...
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    In Meiji 21, or 1888, December 26, the Miyako Shinbun reported that at Mii-dera, Wakayama Prefecture, there was an umibōzu like a large monkey with a height...
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  • indicate that the local inhabitants brought picnic boxes and gathered at Mii-dera on Mount Hiei to observe the battle.[citation needed] According to the...
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    haiku as "while eating funazushi, Seta became evening and the bell of Mii-dera temple was heard." (鮒鮓や瀬田の夕照三井の鐘) In an essay titled "A Drop of Bokuju...
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    century and based on Mount Hiei just outside Kyoto. Jimon's head temple was Mii-dera, at the foot of Mount Hiei, while the Sanmon sect was based at Enryaku-ji...
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  • Ki-mii-dera Jūichimen Kannon (Ekādaśamukha) Wakayama Wakayama 34°11′07″N 135°11′24″E / 34.185167°N 135.190025°E / 34.185167; 135.190025 (Ki-mii-dera)...
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  • Tsutsui no Jōmyō Meishū (筒井浄妙明秀) was a warrior monk (sōhei) from Mii-dera who fought alongside Minamoto no Yorimasa and his fellow monks at the Battle...
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    service was held in which the temple was given the name "Komii-dera (小三井寺, lit. "little Mii-dera")" in reference to the founder's original temple. It is said...
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    Commons has media related to Mangetsuji (Otsu). Enryaku-ji Ishiyama-dera Mii-dera "Database of Registered National Cultural Properties". Agency for Cultural...
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    examples of early shoin style, also called shuden, include two guest halls at Mii-dera. In the early Edo period, shoin-zukuri reached its peak and spread beyond...
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    no Yorimasa fought a small Taira army with the help of monks from the Mii-dera and other temples, the victorious Taira sought revenge. They burned the...
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  • falls in love with a beautiful woman he sees at a female pilgrimage at Mii-dera. He becomes deathly sick with grief, however, on learning that her family...
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    involved in the conflict between Enryaku-ji and Mii-dera, and sōhei from Mii-dera burned Ōyama-dera to the ground in 1152. The temple never recovered...
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    remains were cremated; half the ashes were buried near Fenollosa's at Mii-dera, just outside Kyoto, and half were interred in the Sturgis family plot...
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