What the records say
- When
- 22 Jan 1181
- Kind
- Siege
- Coordinates
- 34.68° N, 135.78° E
- Description
- 1181 siege
Siege of Nara
Siege in 1180 in Japan
The siege of Nara alternatively known as the Nanto Arson Campaign in Japan is an event which took place on January 15, 1181, following Prince Mochihito and Minamoto no Yorimasa's defeat and subsequent death to the Taira clan, after which the Taira forces burnt down the Miidera temple, before moving on to Nara, where they "set fire to the monastic complexes of Kōfuku-ji and Tōdai-ji."
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- Wikipedia year pages (Japanese), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “平重衡らが東大寺・興福寺など奈良の寺院を焼き払う（南都焼討）。”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page