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Uji

Uji may refer to:

  • Uji (clan), a Japanese kin group system of the Kofun period
  • Uji, Kyoto, a place in Kyoto Prefecture, Japan
  • Uji (有時), "Being-Time," a fascicle of Zen master Dōgen's Shōbōgenzō
Uji (clan)
This is about the early Japanese kin group. For other uses, see Uji (disambiguation).

are Japanese kin groups of the Kofun period.

Uji were similar to the traditional Japanese clans; however, the pre- Taika uji did not have many of the characteristics which are commonly understood to be part of Japanese clans. For example, the Nakatomi clan and the Fujiwara clan were each uji.

The uji was not only a social, economic and political unit. It also had religious significance in the 5th-7th centuries. The chief family has the title of Uji no kami.

Usage examples of "uji".

The new seeds which he carried home were successfully planted in three places, one of which, the Uji district near Kioto, bears still the name of producing the best tea in the world.

In the Hoodo temple at Uji, dating from the tenth century, we can still see the elaborate canopy and gilded baldachinos, many-coloured and inlaid with mirrors and mother-of-pearl, as well as remains of the paintings and sculpture which formerly covered the walls.

Messengers on horseback began arriving morning and evening from Nara, and Tameyoshi was ordered to Uji with his troops.

August, Tameyoshi of the Genji took his soldiers down to Uji and succeeded in turning back several thousand armed monks who were on their way to the capital.

Only a few days remained before the entire Court suspended its customary occupations for the elaborate ceremonials ushering in the New Year, when Yorinaga once more appeared at Uji, distraught.

The conspirators conferred all night and into the next day, setting the stage for a war, and as the assembling of troops here would excite suspicion and hamper their movements, Yorinaga soon left for Uji to pursue the next step in his plans.

FUjiwara, who accompanied Yorinaga to Uji, vanished shortly afterward, and many others refused to answer the summons from the Court.

Kyoto on the morning of the 10th, took up his position on the Uji Road by noon.

The occupants of the vehicles, however, proved to be two courtiers who produced documents to show that they had gone to Uji on private matters.

Motomori prepared to leave the Court for the Uji Road, he was detained for a brief ceremony in which a higher rank was conferred on him.

Shinzei made his way through the dark, along the Uji Road toward one of his manors.

Tor gasped the word, her last uji The door burst open and her vision filled with fluid blue: the room filling with half a dozen uniformed police.

Introduction The eight-armed mirror of the Sun Goddess Amaterasu Omikami can be seen to this day in the Shinto shrine near the town of Uji Yamada by the Ise River in Japan.

Hikoemon rode to Uji once more to meet with Genba, who was now in solitary confinement.

Kyoto, and then back to Uji, where an animal skin was spread out on the ground.