Minamoto no Yoriyoshi's Military Activities in the 1070s and Consolidation of the Bandō Warriors

Timeline

1. 1070–1072Bandō provinces · Kantō regionAfter the Nine-Year War, Minamoto no Yoriyoshi received rewards and continued to hold important regional military-administrative posts, maintaining a network of warrior retainers in the Bandō provinces and becoming a military aristocrat on whom the court relied.
2. c. 1073–1077Mutsu Province · Tōhoku regionYoriyoshi and his son Minamoto no Yoshiie maintained order and suppressed rebellions of powerful clans along the Mutsu and Dewa frontier, consolidating the court's military presence in Ōshū and accumulating combat experience against northeastern magnates.
3. c. 1078–1079Heian-kyō · KinkiIn his later years Yoriyoshi returned to the capital to participate in court politics, and his family's warrior band in the Bandō had grown strong enough to support large-scale expeditions; the enterprise of the 1070s directly provided the manpower and prestige base for the Three-Year War (pacification of the Kiyohara clan) that began in 1083.