Taira no Norimori - Taira no Norimori

Japanese: 平教盛 - たいらののりもり

Year of death: Bunji 1.3.24 (1185.4.25)
Year of birth: 1128
A military commander in the late Heian period. Son of Taira Tadamori. Half-brother of Kiyomori. His mother was the wife of Taikenmon'in, the daughter of Ietaka, the second son of the regent Fujiwara no Michimichi. Of the siblings, Norimori was the most beloved by Kiyomori, and rose to prominence as a close aide. At Kiyomori's request, he built a residence next to the main gate of Rokuhara, and was known as Kadowaki Chunagon. In 1161, when Taira Tokitada's younger sister Shigeko gave birth to Prince Norihito, the son of Emperor Goshirakawa, Tokitada invited Norimori to join him in a plot to make the prince Crown Prince to Emperor Nijō and ensure the safety of the Taira clan, but Kiyomori suppressed this and demoted the two of them. The following year Norimori became the head of the household, and in 1168, when Emperor Takakura (Prince Norihito) ascended to the throne, he was a councilor with the rank of Shosanmi. In 1182, he was promoted to Junior Second Rank, and in the following year, he became Chunagon. During this time, he served as the governor of Awaji, Yamato, Etchu, Hitachi, and Noto, and was the feudal lord of Hitachi, Noto, and Echizen. He was an aristocratic Taira nobleman who attended court ceremonies, but in 1180, he showed his true abilities as a military commander when he attacked Onjo-ji Temple, where Prince Mochihito had taken refuge after raising an army against the Taira. After Kiyomori's death in 1181, he became the elder of the clan and assisted Taira Munemori as a staff officer for the Kyoto Shugo, but he did not actually take part in the battles, and in 1183, he fled the capital with the Taira clan and fled westward. He later took part in actual battles, fighting against Minamoto no Yoshinaka at Mizushima in Bitchu, and defeating the army of Minamoto no Yukiie in Harima. In the Battle of Ichinotani in February 1184, Norimori lost his eldest son, Michimori, and his third son, Narimori, but it is said that Norimori was on a ship off the coast of Wada with Emperor Antoku at the time. In October, he is said to have driven out the Genji clan from Nagato Province, and died in the Battle of Dannoura in 1185. <References> Yasuda Motohisa, "Portraits of the Heike"; Taga Sojun, "Essays on the Culture of the World" (Vol. 1, Courtiers and Samurai)

(Kisaburo Masaki)

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没年：文治1.3.24(1185.4.25)
生年：大治3(1128)
平安末期の武将。平忠盛の子。清盛の異母弟。母は関白藤原師通の次男家隆の娘で,待賢門院女房。兄弟のなかで,清盛から最も慈しまれ,身近くあって栄達し,その側近に終始していた。清盛の意向で六波羅の総門の脇に居館を構え,世に門脇中納言と称された。応保1(1161)年,平時忠の妹滋子が後白河法皇の皇子憲仁親王を生むと,時忠は教盛を誘い,親王の二条天皇立太子を謀り,平家の安泰を策したが,清盛はこれを押さえ,ふたりを左遷。翌年教盛は内蔵頭となり,仁安3(1168)年高倉天皇(憲仁親王)即位のとき,正三位参議。寿永1(1182)年従二位,翌2年に中納言となった。この間,淡路,大和,越中,常陸,能登の国守を歴任し,常陸,能登,越前などの知行国主であった。宮廷にあっては朝儀に参列するなど,貴族的な平家の公卿であったが,治承4(1180)年,反平家の兵を挙げた以仁王が逃げ込んだ園城寺攻撃からは武将としての本領を示す。養和1(1181)年の清盛没後は一門の長老として,平宗盛を補佐して洛中守護の参謀となるが,実際には戦いに参加せず,寿永2(1183)年平家一門と共に都落ちして西走。その後実戦に加わり,備中水島では源義仲と戦い,播磨で源行家の軍を破る。元暦1(1184)年2月の一の谷の戦では,長子通盛,3男業盛を失うが,このとき教盛は安徳天皇らと和田沖の船中にあったとされている。10月には長門国の源氏を追い落としたといわれ,文治1(1185)年,壇の浦の戦で没した。<参考文献>安田元久『平家の群像』,多賀宗隼『論集中世文化史』(上,公家武家篇)

(正木喜三郎)

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