Uji

Uji

Japan
      city, Kyōto fu (urban prefecture), west-central Honshu, Japan. It lies along the Uji River in the southeastern corner of the Kyōto Basin. It developed in about the 7th century as a river crossing. During the Tokugawa era (1603–1867) it was the main post town on the road between Nara and Ōtsu.

      Uji is best known as the place where tea was first cultivated in Japan in the Muromachi era (1338–1573). High-quality green tea is still grown on the fertile alluvial fan of the Uji River, and there is cormorant fishing in the river. With improved road and rail connections to Kyōto, the city became a residential suburb and resort, serving the greater urban centre. Among its many historic temples and shrines is the Byōdō Temple, which was built as a residence in the mid-11th century for a minister who later converted the building into a Buddhist temple when he became a Buddhist monk. Minamoto Yorimasa, a warrior and poet who supposedly killed the nue (a monster having the head of a monkey, the body of a tiger, and the tail of a serpent) in 1153, fought against the Taira clan at Uji Bridge in 1180. After his defeat he took refuge in the Byōdō Temple, where he committed seppuku. Pop. (2005) 189,591.

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