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Sanjo-Higashi-dono Night-Raid Site

This is said to be the site where attackers raided and burned an imperial residence at night in 1159, igniting a civil war. The palace vanished, and a city marker erected in 1966 now carries the memory of the flames.

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These notes come from desk research. Local traditions vary.