{"id":965,"date":"2013-02-20T15:56:45","date_gmt":"2013-02-20T06:56:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lovekatano.com\/?page_id=965"},"modified":"2015-06-13T08:34:56","modified_gmt":"2015-06-12T23:34:56","slug":"chapter-4-katano-in-the-kamakura-and-muromachi-periods","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.lovekatano.com\/?page_id=965","title":{"rendered":"Chapter 4 Katano in the Kamakura and Muromachi periods"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since <em>Kamakura Bakufu<\/em> (the <em>Kamakura<\/em> Shogunate) in 1192, the\u00a0<em>Samurai<\/em> class with armed power had played a central role of politics instead of nobles. In addition, Buddism disseminated among <em>Samurai<\/em> although it was the religion for nobles in the <em>Heian<\/em> period. In Katano, for example, many temples such as <em>Iwakura Kaigen Ji<\/em> in <em>Kuraji<\/em>, <em>Hachiyorenge Ji<\/em> in <em>Boji<\/em>, <em>Shishikutsu Ji<\/em> in <em>Kisaichi<\/em>, and <em>Komatsu Dera<\/em> in <em>Hoshida<\/em> were built by Samurai&#8217;s donation.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"To look at the photo, please click here.\" href=\"https:\/\/www.lovekatano.com\/?attachment_id=2086\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Amidanyorai Ritsuzo<\/em><\/a> in <em>Hachiyo Renge Ji<\/em> was a work of\u00a0<em>Kaikei<\/em> who made a Buddist statue in <em>Todai Ji<\/em> (Nara).<\/p>\n<p>Various tiles for\u00a0roofs were found from the remains in Katano. The pattern of the tiles\u00a0is\u00a0quite similar to ones made in Nara. It is widely thought that tile-makers from Nara made\u00a0roof tiles in Katano.<\/p>\n<p><em>Kamakura<\/em> potteries found from the <em>Jinguji Iseki<\/em> and the<em> Ariike Iseki<\/em> tell\u00a0us that\u00a0people of Katano in the <em>Kamakura<\/em> period used potteries made in Aichi and Okayama. They also used celadons.<\/p>\n<p>The Muromachi Shogunate started in the middle of 15 century and introduced a new political system, in which powerful commanders (Yuryoku Busho) were designated as &#8216;Shugo Daimyo&#8217;. &#8216;Shugo Daimyos&#8217; had responsibilities to manage\u00a0provinces such as Kawachi no Kuni and Suruga no Kuni and to collect taxes instead of the Muromachi Shogunate. Katano&#8217;s Shugo Daimyo was the Hatakeyama. But, in fact, Katano was controlled by the Yasumi, who was the Hatakeyama&#8217;s\u00a0deputy (called &#8216;Shugo Dai&#8217;), as the Hatakeyama had to manage separate states as &#8216;Shugo Daimyo&#8217;. The Yasumi allegedly resided in the Kisabe Castle and managed Katano.<\/p>\n<p>In the Muromachi period, furthermore, tea leaves were\u00a0grown as a special\u00a0local product\u00a0of Katano. Kotsuji (the Kotsuji Temple), which\u00a0was established in the beginning of the Muromachi period,\u00a0made the imperial court a present of Katano&#8217;s tea leaves.<\/p>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Go on\u00a0to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lovekatano.com\/?page_id=1159\" target=\"_blank\">Chapter5 The Kisabe Castle<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since Kamakura Bakufu (the Kamakura Shogunate) in 1192, the\u00a0Samurai class with armed power had played a central role of politics instead of nobles. In addition, Buddism disseminated among Samurai although it was the religion for nobles in the Heian period. In Katano, for example, many temples such as Iwakura Kaigen Ji in Kuraji, Hachiyorenge Ji [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":233,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-965","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lovekatano.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lovekatano.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lovekatano.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lovekatano.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lovekatano.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=965"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.lovekatano.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3062,"href":"https:\/\/www.lovekatano.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/965\/revisions\/3062"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lovekatano.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lovekatano.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}