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Discovered on the 1st day of the 6th month of Angen 3 (1177); those implicated were punished from the 6th through the 7th month of the same year
In 1177, close attendants of the retired Emperor Go-Shirakawa gathered at a mountain villa in Shishigatani, Higashiyama, Kyoto, to plot the overthrow of the Taira clan. The plot was betrayed by Tada Yukitsuna and collapsed before it could be carried out; its leaders were executed or exiled, and the rift between Taira no Kiyomori and Go-Shirakawa became irreparable.
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