Examples include Taira no Masakado, Taira no Kiyomori, and ( with a further surname expansion ) the Hōjō clan.

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The 1590 Siege of Odawara against the Late Hōjō clan in Kantō eliminated the last resistance to Hideyoshi's authority.

In October 1571, Takeda Shingen, now allied with the Hōjō clan, attacked the Tokugawa lands of Tōtōmi.

Hōjō Ujimasa, leader of the Hōjō clan responded by sending his much larger army into Shinano and then into Kai province.

The Hōjō clan ruled the eight provinces of the Kantō region in eastern Japan.

Hideyoshi attacked several castles on the borders of the Hōjō clan with most of his army laying siege to the castle at Odawara.

* Battle of Kawagoe: Two branches of the Uesugi families are defeated by the late Hōjō clan in Japan.

* Kanezawa Sanetoki, Japanese member of the Hōjō clan ( b. 1224 )

These three great temples were built here because Yamanouchi was the home territory of the Hōjō clan, a branch of the Taira clan which ruled Japan for 150 years.

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.

Yoriie plotted to take power back from the Hōjō clan, but failed and was assassinated on July 17, 1204.

Since the Hōjō were part of the Taira clan, it can be said that the Taira had lost a battle, but in the end had won the war.

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

This field is the former site of Tōshō-ji, the Hōjō clan | Hōjō family temple.

In 1333, the Hōjō clan committed mass suicide here.

From 1203 onwards, the family of the first Shogun Yoritomo's wife, the Hōjō clan, effectively had total control over the nation with the title Shikken ( Regent ), setting up a Hojo family court that discussed and made most of the significant decisions.

After Yoritomo's death, Hōjō Tokimasa, the clan chief of Yoritomo's widow, Hōjō Masako, and former guardian of Yoritomo, claimed the title of regent ( Shikken ) to Yoritomo's son Minamoto no Yoriie, eventually making that claim hereditary to the Hōjō clan.

* 1232 – The Formulary of Adjudications is promulgated by Regent Hōjō Yasutoki.

* 1279 – A diplomatic party of the Yuan Dynasty sent by Kublai Khan to Japan is killed by Japan's regent Hōjō Tokimune, leading to a second invasion attempt by the Mongols in 1281.

* A Yuan diplomatic party sent by Kublai Khan to Japan is killed by Japan's regent Hōjō Tokimune, leading to a second invasion attempt by the Mongols in 1281.

The Hōjō family crest in the city is therefore still ubiquitous.

In accounts of that disastrous Hōjō defeat it is recorded that nearly 900 Hōjō samurai, including the last three Regents, committed suicide at their family temple, Tōshō-ji, whose ruins have been found in today's Ōmachi.

* 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

When Emperor Go-Daigo began his Kemmu Restoration, the still very young prince, along with Kitabatake Akiie, in 1333 went to Tagajō in what is now Miyagi Prefecture, at the time Mutsu Province, to return the eastern samurai to their allegiance and destroy the remnants of the Hōjō clan.

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.

* 1232: The Jōei Shikimoku code of law is promulgated to enhance control by the Hōjō regents

* 1246 ( Kangen 4, 7th month ): Yoritsune's son, now Shogun Yoritsugu ( who is only 7 years old ) marries the sister of Hōjō Tsunetoki ( who is himself only 16 years old ).

She later would have yet another brother, Hōjō Tokifusa, and another sister, whose name is lost to history.

* The Taiheiki ( Japanese: 太平記 ) is a Japanese historical epic written in the late 14th century that details the fall of the Hōjō clan and rise of the Ashikaga, and the period of war ( Nanboku-chō ) between the Northern Court of Ashikaga Takauji in Kyoto, and the Southern Court of Emperor Go-Daigo in Yoshino, which forever splintered the Japanese Imperial Family.

* In the anime show Inuyasha, in episode 137, there is a character named Hōjō Akitoki.

However, since the game is set in the Sengoku period, this probably represents the unrelated Late Hōjō clan, which appropriated the Hōjō name and crest.

Kasai is famous for the Gohyaku-Rakan statues ( the 500 disciples of Buddha ) in Hōjō.

Hōjō is also home to Maruyama Park, where one can find the world's largest globe clock ( Guinness certified ) and reputedly the world's longest roller slide.

Public transport is an inter-prefecture highway bus and a private railroad ( the Hōjō Tetsudō ), inter-city bus ( Shinki bus ), KIX airport limousine bus ( Hakuro bus ), domestic-bus ( Kasai city community bus, Happy bus ) and Taxi.

This last point is well illustrated by Arnesen, who calculated that the number of direct vassals in the shogunal bodyguard was sixty to seventy percent the number of direct vassals enrolled under the Late Hōjō clan of the sixteenth century.

* 1246 ( Kangen 4, 7th month ): Yoritsune's son, now Shogun Yoritsugu ( who is only 7 years old ) marries the sister of Hōjō Tsunetoki ( who is himself only 16 years old ).

* Hōjō, one of the five kata of Kashima Shinden Jikishinkage-ryū

In October 1572, after having concluded alliances with his rivals to the east ( the Late Hōjō clan of Odawara and the Satomi clan of Awa ), and after waiting for the snow to close off the northern mountain passes against his northern rival, Uesugi Kenshin, Takeda Shingen led an army of 20, 000 men south from his capital of Kofu into Tōtōmi Province, while one of his generals led a second force of 5, 000 men into eastern Mikawa Province.

From then on, the rensho was chosen from influential members of the Hōjō clan, but not from the main line of the clan ( tokusō ), with the one exception of Tokimune, who temporarily occupied the position from 1264 to 1268.

The Hōjō ( one of Japan's National Treasures )

After Ieyasu completed Edo Castle, he turned site of Odawara Castle over to one of his senior retainer, Ōkubo Tadayo, who reconstructed the castle in its present form on a considerably reduced scale, with the entire castle fitting inside what was the third bailey of the original Late Hōjō castle.

Naka District was one of the four subdivisions of Sagami Province established by the late Hōjō clan of Odawara during the Sengoku period.

They were one of the primary opponents of the Hōjō family of regents, in the mid-13th century, and again at the beginning of the 16th.

The was one of several major families descended from the Seiwa Genji, and numbered among the chief enemies of the Ashikaga shogunate, and later the Hōjō clan regents.

Tokugawa Ieyasu, one of Hideyoshi's top generals, was given the Hōjō lands.

was the first head of the Late Hōjō clan, one of the major powers in Japan's Sengoku period.

On the other hand, Nagao Tamekage, Deputy Constable of Kamakura in the first decades of the 16th century, allied himself with Hōjō Sōun, who would later become one of the Uesugi's strongest rivals.

Kagetora then adopted the surname of " Uesugi " after campaigning against the Hōjō in Sagami Province ; he would later take the name Uesugi Kenshin, and become one of Sengoku's most famous generals, battling the Hōjō and Takeda Shingen for control of the Kantō.

A large chunk of Tokimasa's life falls under only this one chapter mainly because not much is known about Hōjō Tokimasa's early life prior to Minamoto no Yoritomo's arrival in Izu.

Hōjō Tokimasa, as the head of the Hōjō clan, had thus become the head of one of the most powerful families in Japan-he was the father-in-law of the shogun.

Soon afterwards, Tokimasa was convinced by one of his allies, Hiraga Tomomasa, that Hatakeyama Shigetada, who was the husband of Tokimasa's youngest daughter, was inciting rebellion in Kyoto against the Hōjō.