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Kaigen Sōzuki

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 1, 2025
Entity authorityQ787357 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Kaigen Sōzuki (快元僧都記) is a diary written by Buddhist priest Kaigen that contains records written between 1532 and 1542, mainly of the restoration of Tsurugaoka Hachiman-gū ordered by Hōjō Ujitsuna. It describes in great detail the work, its organization and the actions of the later Hōjō clan during that period.

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“Kaigen Sōzuki” enters the record as open-knowledge reference entry. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Kaigen, Sōzuki and Open-knowledge can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1532, 1542—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Kaigen, Sōzuki and Open-knowledge.
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“Kaigen Sōzuki” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Kaigen, Sōzuki and Open-knowledge provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Dec 1, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q787357. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1532 and 1542.

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This entry incorporates text from “Kaigen Sōzuki” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.