During this conflict, a group of monks created a giant wooden head representing one side's leader, and kicked it around their courtyard in defiance.
During this conflict, a group of monks created a giant wooden head representing one side's leader, and kicked it around their courtyard in defiance. That side ordered the burning of the Miideri, and lost at Echizen and Tonamiyama to a commander later killed at Awazu. In the first year of this war, one side's leader was forced to hide in the Hakone mountains after losing the Battle of Ishibashiyama. Interrupted by a year-long famine, this war was sparked by a proclamation issued by Prince Mochihito at the behest of the cloistered Emperor Go-Shirakawa, and included victories at the Battles of Ichi no Tani and Yashima for Yoshitsune. Emperor Antoku drowned during this war's decisive final battle, the Battle of Dan-no-Ura. Leading to Yoritomo's creation of the Kamakura Shogunate, and recounted in The Tale of the Heike, for 10 points, name this 1180 to 1185 Japanese civil war between the Taira and Minamoto clans.
During this conflict, a group of monks created a giant wooden head representing one side's leader, and kicked it around their courtyard in defiance.
{Gempei} War [or {Genpei} War; or the {Jisho-Juei} War]