Taira no Tadamori (平忠盛) (1096-1153) was a
Taira clan samurai, father of
Taira no Kiyomori, and member of the Kebiishi (Imperial police force). He was also governor of the provinces of
Harima,
Ise,
Bizen, and
Tajima.He consolidated the influence of the Taira clan at the Imperial Court, and is said to have been the first samurai to serve the Emperor directly, at Court.As a servant of the Court, Tadamori waged campaigns, beginning in 1129, against
pirates on the coasts of
San'yōdō and
Nankaidō (two of the
Gokishichidō, large administrative divisions of Japan). He also served his own clan in battling the
warrior monks of
Nara and of
Mount Hiei.
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