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::''This article is about the regional government headquarters. For the city, see [[Dazaifu (city)]].''

::''This article is about the regional government headquarters. For the city, see [[Dazaifu (city)]].''

Located in [[Dazaifu (city)|the city of the same name]]<ref>Though written with different characters: 太宰府市. ("Dazaifu." ''Daijirin'' 大辞林. Sanseido Co. Ltd.)</ref>, the Dazaifu served during the [[Heian period]] as the administrative center for governing [[Kyushu]] on behalf of the Court in [[Heian-kyo|Heian-kyô]] (Kyoto), overseeing the nine provinces and three islands<ref>Only two islands after [[824]].</ref> of the [[Saikaido|Saikaidô]] or Kyushu region. The Dazaifu managed both domestic/internal affairs, and foreign affairs, including the reception of foreign dignitaries, shore defenses,

Located in [[Dazaifu (city)|the city of the same name]]<ref>Though written with different characters: 太宰府市. ("Dazaifu." ''Daijirin'' 大辞林. Sanseido Co. Ltd.)</ref>, the Dazaifu served during the [[Heian period]] as the administrative center for governing [[Kyushu]] on behalf of the Court in [[Heian-kyo|Heian-kyô]] (Kyoto), overseeing the nine provinces and three islands<ref>Only two islands after [[824]].</ref> of the [[Saikaido|Saikaidô]] or Kyushu region. The Dazaifu managed both domestic/internal affairs, and foreign affairs, including the reception of foreign dignitaries and shore defenses. The Dazaifu claimed a monopoly on authorized, legitimate foreign trade throughout the Heian period, though numerous local power-holders (''[[kenmon]]'') and others flouted these controls; by the end of the 12th century, the Dazaifu had "definitively lost its monopoly over maritime trade," as power-holders such as the [[Minamoto clan|Minamoto]] and [[Taira clan]]s, [[kuge|aristocrat families]], temples, and shrines increasingly skirted Dazaifu procedures or oversight in conducting foreign trade themselves.<ref>Richard von Glahn, "The Ningbo-Hakata Merchant Network and the Reorientation of East Asian Maritime Trade, 1150-1350," ''Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies'' 74:2 (2014), 268.</ref>

After the end of the Heian period, the offices fell into disuse, and the city of Dazaifu transformed into a more rural community, as it remains today.

After the end of the Heian period, the offices fell into disuse, and the city of Dazaifu transformed into a more rural community, as it remains today.