Insei period
院政期
Movement · period · 1086–1185
Dates. It begins in 1086, when Emperor Shirakawa abdicated and ruled on from his retirement — government by cloistered emperors (insei)1. It ends with the Heian period in 1185, when Minamoto no Yoritomo, after Dan-no-ura, won the right to appoint military governors and land stewards2. Mason 2005, p. 102. ↩ Wikipedia, Kamakura period, “In the past, the most popular theory was that the year was 1192 … Later, the prevailing theory was that the year was 1185”. ↩ Literatur Mason 2005: Penelope E. Mason, History of Japanese Art, 2nd, Pearson Education LTD. 2005. Wikipedia, Kamakura period: Anon., Kamakura period, in: Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamakura_period (zuletzt abgerufen am 30.10.2026).