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The Hōjō regency, a unique episode in Japanese history, however continued until Nitta Yoshisada destroyed it in 1333 at the Siege of Kamakura.
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Hōjō and regency
He was succeeded by his 17-year-old son and second shogun, Minamoto no Yoriie under the regency of his maternal grandfather Hōjō Tokimasa.
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.
Several significant administrative achievements were made during the Hōjō regency.
Several significant administrative achievements were made during the Hōjō regency.
The Mongol invasions were the main cause behind this centralization of power that took place during the regency of Hōjō Tokimune ( AD 1268-1284 ).
He strengthened the political system of the Hōjō regency.
Following the fall of Kamakura ( and of the Hōjō regency ), Nitta was appointed Governor of Echigo and Vice-Governor of Harima and Kozuke Provinces, as Emperor Go-Daigo redistributed the Hōjō lands.
Thus began a series of battles, both military and political, as the Fujiwara family, who dominated the Imperial regency following the fall of the Hōjō, sought to retain influence.
In that year, a regency council was created by Hōjō Tokimasa, Masako, and Yoshitoki.
Hōjō and episode
* In the anime show Inuyasha, in episode 137, there is a character named Hōjō Akitoki.
Throughout the episode Hōjō wears a kimono bearing symbols very similar to the Hōjō family crest.
Hōjō and Japanese
** Hōjō Ujimasa, Japanese warlord ( b. 1538 )
** Hōjō Ujiteru, Japanese warlord ( b. 1540 ？)
* Kanezawa Sanetoki, Japanese member of the Hōjō clan ( b. 1224 )
After the surviving forces returned to Mongol territory, Kublai was not dissuaded from his intentions on bringing the Japanese empire under Mongol control, and once again sent a message to the bakufu to submit, which infuriated the Hōjō leadership, who had the messengers executed.
* Hōjō Tokiyuki, an early Japanese Scouting notable
* 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.
* The Hōjō clan's crest was replicated as the Triforce symbol from the Legend of Zelda game series created by Japanese game designers Shigeru Miyamoto and Takashi Tezuka.
of the Hōjō clan was the eighth shikken ( officially regent, but de facto ruler of Japan ) of the Kamakura shogunate ( reigned 1268 – 84 ), known for leading the Japanese forces against the invasion of the Mongols and for spreading Zen Buddhism and by extension Bushido among the warrior class.
Hōjō Ujinao ( 北条 氏直: 1562 – December 19, 1591 ) was a Japanese daimyo of the late Sengoku period, and the final head of the Late Hōjō clan.
NHK's 1991 taiga drama Taiheiki was noted for its portrayal of Ashikaga Takauji as an agent of change against the decadent Hōjō, rather than a national traitor as generally viewed by Japanese historians.
Hōjō and history
She later would have yet another brother, Hōjō Tokifusa, and another sister, whose name is lost to history.
Hōjō and however
The reality, however, was that the forces who had arisen against Kamakura had been set on defeating the Hōjō, not on supporting the Emperor.
This did not stop him from joining the cause of the Hōjō family for the Jōkyū War of 1221, however.
The Hōjō clan was, ironically, descended from the Taira clan, which would lose to the Minamoto in the grand civil war known as the Genpei War in the 1180s ; however, as a result of their connection to the Taira, the Hōjō were also distant relatives of the imperial family.
Hōjō Ujimasa, however, broke the alliance without informing Saburō personally, which resulted in Kenshin's wrath.
Hōjō and continued
The situation in Kantō after 1333 continued to be tense, with Hōjō supporters staging sporadic revolts here and there.
When the fortress fell, Hōjō Ujimasa died and his brother, Hōjō Ujinao submitted to Hideyoshi's power, thus ending a period of serial internal warfare which had continued uninterrupted since the Onin War ( 1467 – 1477 ).
The situation in Kamakura continued to be tense, with Hōjō supporters staging sporadic revolts here and there.
However, the family name was reassigned to a supporter of the Hōjō clan, and the Miura continued to rule Miura Peninsula through the Muromachi period until their defeat at Arai Castle in a 1518 attack by Hōjō Sōun.
When the fortress fell, Hōjō Ujimasa died and his brother, Hōjō Ujinao submitted to Hideyoshi's power, thus ending a period of serial internal warfare which had continued uninterrupted since the nengō Onin ( 1467 ).
However, the family name was reassigned to a supporter of the Hōjō clan, and the Miura continued to rule Miura Peninsula through the Muromachi period until their defeat at Arai Castle in a 1518 attack by Hōjō Sōun.
At the battle of Kawagoe in 1545, both major branches of the Uesugi family were defeated by the Hōjō clan ; Norimasa's campaigns only continued to be less and less successful.
Hōjō and until
He was succeeded by his sons Yoriie and Sanetomo, and this place remained the seat of the government for 46 years until 1225, when his wife Hōjō Masako died.
The power of the Hōjō remained unchallenged until 1324, when Emperor Go-Daigo orchestrated a plot to overthrow them, but the plot was discovered almost immediately and foiled.
Building on the accomplishments of Sōun, the Late Hōjō clan remained a major power in the Kantō region until its subjugation by Toyotomi Hideyoshi late in the Sengoku period.
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 ).
Tokugawa Ieyasu held the region until he conquered the lands of the Hōjō clan in the Kantō region and placed land under the stewardship of Oda Nobunaga.
* Hōjō Masataka ( 北条政高 ), until 1333
Despite an overwhelming attacking force, numbering around 85, 000, the 3, 000 men in Kawagoe Castle's garrison, led by Hōjō Tsunashige, held off the siege until the relief force arrived.
Hōjō and Nitta
At the same time, Nitta Yoshisada, another eastern chieftain, rebelled against the shogunate, which quickly disintegrated, and the Hōjō were defeated.
In the same year, Kamakura was invaded by Nitta Yoshisada and the almost entire Hōjō clan, almost 900 persons, killed themselves at the family temple of Tōshō-ji.
In the 1330s, Nitta Yoshisada led the clan and a number of other Minamoto vassals against the Hōjō clan regents.
was the head of the Nitta family in the early fourteenth century, and supported the Southern Court of Emperor Go-Daigo in the Nanboku-chō period, capturing Kamakura from the Hōjō clan in 1333.
In 1331, after being ordered by the bakufu ( shogunate ) to join an army at the Chihaya fortress, Nitta received summonses from Prince Morinaga and Emperor Go-Daigo to strike at the Hōjō, so he left his post.
On the approaches to the city, Nitta enjoyed some early victories, routing the Hōjō defenders and pursuing them towards the city.
Nitta first tried to enter through the Gokurakuji Pass and the Kewaizaka Pass, but concentrated Hōjō forces stopped him.
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