* Hōjō Mototoki, r. 1315

13 Hōjō Mototoki (?- 1333 ) ( r. 1315 )

# Hōjō Mototoki ( r. 1301-1303 )

# Hōjō Mototoki ( r. 1315 – 1316 )

* 1315 ( Shōwa 4, 7th month ): Hōjō Hirotoki dies in Kamakura ; and initially, Hōjō Sadaaki and Hōjō Mototoki share power.

* 1316 ( Shōwa 5, 7th month ): Hōjō Tokiatsu, who is the son of Hōjō Sadaaki, takes on the role of Shikken ; and Hōjō Mototoki retires to a Buddhist monastery where he shaves his head.

* 1185: Taira is defeated ( Gempei War ) and Minamoto Yoritomo with the support ( backing ) of the Hōjō clan seizes power, becoming the first shogun of Japan, while the emperor ( or " mikado ") becomes a figurehead

* 1546: Hōjō Ujiyasu who had won the Battle of Kawagoe becomes ruler of the Kantō region

* 1492 Hōjō Sōun becomes master of Izu.

Yoritomo's wife's family, the Hōjō, seized the power from the Kamakura shoguns.

The end of the Kamakura shogunate came when Kamakura fell in 1333 and the Hōjō Regency was destroyed.

* Hōjō Yoshitoki, Kamakura regent ( d. 1224 )

* Hōjō Yoshitoki, regent of the Kamakura shogunate of Japan ( b. 1163 )

* Hōjō Tokimune, 8th regent of the Kamakura shogunate ( d. 1284 )

Before the opening of the Entrances, access on land was so difficult that the Azuma Kagami reports that Hōjō Masako came back to Kamakura from a visit to Sōtōzan temple in Izu bypassing by boat the impassable Inamuragasaki cape and arriving in Yuigahama.

The Hōjō clan | Hōjō family Mon ( crest ) | crest, ubiquitous in Kamakura

The Hōjō regency, a unique episode in Japanese history, however continued until Nitta Yoshisada destroyed it in 1333 at the Siege of Kamakura.

In 1247, the newly installed shōgun's regent, Hōjō Tokiyori, invited Dōgen to come to Kamakura to teach him.

During the preceding Kamakura period ( 1185 – 1334 ), the Hōjō clan enjoyed absolute power in the governing of Japan.

For reasons that are unclear, possibly because Ashikaga was the de facto leader of the powerless Minamoto clan, while the Hōjō clan were from the Taira clan the Minamoto had previously defeated, Ashikaga turned against the Kamakura bakufu, and fought on behalf of the Imperial court.

Although the Ashikaga shogunate had retained the structure of the Kamakura bakufu and instituted a warrior government based on the same social economic rights and obligations established by the Hōjō with the Jōei Code in 1232, it failed to win the loyalty of many daimyo, especially those whose domains were far from Kyoto.

* The Hōjō Regency during the Kamakura shogunate in Japan.

Yoritomo set himself up as the rightful heir of the Minamoto clan, and, with financial backing of the Hōjō, his wife's family, he set up a capital at Kamakura in the east.

Yoritomo's wife's family, the Hōjō, took control after his death at Kamakura, maintaining power over the shogunate until 1333, under the title of shikken ( regent to the Shogun ).

Born from Tokimasa's daughter Hōjō Masako at Hiki Yoshikazu's residence in Kamakura, Yoriie had as wet nurses the wives of powerful men like Hiki himself and Kajiwara Kagetoki, and Hiki's younger sister.

Minamoto no Sanetomo ( 源 実朝, September 17, 1192 – February 13, 1219, r. 1203 – 1219 ) was the third shogun of the Kamakura shogunate Sanetomo was the second son of the founder of the Kamakura shogunate Minamoto no Yoritomo, his mother was Hōjō Masako, and his older brother was the second Kamakura shogun Minamoto no Yoriie.

In Kyōto, Minamoto no Michichika took power as steward, and in Kamakura, in 1199, upon the death of Minamoto no Yoritomo, Hōjō Tokimasa began to rule as Gokenin.

With the protector of the Emperor ( shogun ) a figurehead himself, strains emerged between Kyoto and Kamakura, and in 1221 the Jōkyū War broke out between the Cloistered Emperor Go-Toba and the second regent Hōjō Yoshitoki.

In 1225 the third regent Hōjō Yasutoki established the Council of State, providing opportunities for other military lords to exercise judicial and legislative authority at Kamakura.

He was succeeded by his 17-year-old son and second shogun, Minamoto no Yoriie under the regency of his maternal grandfather Hōjō Tokimasa.

Yoriie did become head of the Minamoto clan and was regularly appointed shogun in 1202 but, by that time, real power had already fallen into the hands of his grandfather Hōjō Tokimasa and of his mother.

From then on all power would belong to the Hōjō, and the shogun would be just a figurehead.

Since the Hōjō family did not have the rank to nominate a shogun from among its members, Masako had to find a convenient puppet.

The problem was solved choosing Kujo Yoritsune, a distant relation of the Minamoto, who would be the fourth shogun and figurehead, while Hōjō Yoshitoki would take care of day-to-day business.

When Yoriie later himself had an heir, Ichiman, the child was also born at the Hiki mansion from Hiki's daughter Wakasa no Tsubone, a fact which further consolidating an already strong emotional bond From this relationship Hiki gained considerable influence when Yoriie became shogun, raising the hostility of Hōjō Tokimasa, who was instead close to Yoriie's younger brother Senman ( future third shogun Sanetomo ), and was in his turn trying to leverage that relationship for political advantage.

Hōjō Masako, Yoriie's mother and wife of the first shogun Yoritomo, allegedly overheard the conversation.

Third son was 12 when Izumi Chikahira rebelled against the Hōjō to make the child shogun.

After the death of his father Yoritomo in 1199, Sanetomo's grandfather Hōjō Tokimasa usurped all political and military power of the shogunate, relegating the position and title of Seii Taishogun, or shogun, to a mere figurehead.

By the early thirteenth century, a regency had been established for the shogun by Hōjō Tokimasa — a member of the Hōjō clan, a branch of the Taira that had allied itself with the Minamoto in 1180.

The head of Hōjō was installed as the regent for the shogun is called the Shikken in the period, although later positions were created with similar power such as Tokuso and Rensho.

Under the Hōjō, the shogun became a powerless figurehead.

At the age of seven, in 1226, Yoritsune became Seii Taishōgun in a political deal between his father and the shogunate regent Hōjō Yoshitoki and Hōjō Masako who set him up as a puppet shogun.

She was the sister of Hōjō Yoshitoki, and was married to Minamoto no Yoritomo, the first shogun of the Kamakura period.

In 1205, Minamoto no Sanetomo was shogun, and even though Tokimasa had been ousted, the position of the Hōjō was still secure.

It was being decided who the next shogun would be, and Masako and Regent Yoshitoki finally decided on Kujō Yoritsune, otherwise known as Fujiwara no Yoritsune, who was not an adult, but a baby, and also not a Hōjō nor a male-line Minamoto, but rather, a member of the Kujō clan, which was part of the Fujiwara clan.

With the protector of the Emperor ( shogun ) a figurehead himself, strains emerged between Kyoto and Kamakura, and in 1221 the Jōkyū War broke out between the Cloistered Emperor Go-Toba and the second regent Hōjō Yoshitoki.