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 ).

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.

The Ashikaga were a samurai family from Kamakura having blood ties with the Seiwa Genji, Minamoto no Yoritomo's clan.

Hōjō Tokimasa became regent for Shogun Yoriie, Yoritomo's son who disliked the Hōjō and preferred his father-in-law's family, the Hiki clan under Hiki Yoshikazu.

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.

Nonetheless, Minamoto no Yoshitsune and Minamoto no Noriyori, Yoritomo's half brothers who had joined Yoritomo drove Yoshinaka out and executed him, and took Kyoto in the name of Yoritomo ( and the Hōjō.

Just 18 years after, the Hōjō usurped power with Yoritomo's passing.

After Yoritomo's death, Ōe won the trust of his widow, Hōjō Masako, and assisted in the Hōjō clan's seizure of power.

Yoritomo's wife Hōjō Masako worried about it, but Noriyori assured her that even in Yoritomo's absence, he would be there for her and for the clan.

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.

Yoshitsune's power would however cause Yoritomo's jealousy ; the relationship between the brothers soured, and in 1189 Yoritomo was given Yoshitsune's head pickled in liquor.

Yoriie had three sons, Ichiman, Kugyō, and Senju-maru, all of whom died of a violent death, victims of the power struggle that followed Yoritomo's sudden death.

The extraordinary events, the historical characters and the culture of the twenty years which go from Minamoto no Yoritomo's birth to the assassination of the last of his sons have been throughout Japanese history the background and the inspiration for countless poems, books, jidaigeki TV dramas, Kabuki plays, songs, manga and even videogames ; and are necessary to make sense of much of what one sees in today's Kamakura.

Different historians put Kamakura's beginning at a different point in time within a range that goes from the establishment of Yoritomo's first military government in Kamakura ( 1180 ) to his elevation to the rank of in 1192.

His half-brothers, Minamoto no Yoshitsune and Minamoto no Noriyori defeated the Taira in several key battles, but they could not stop Minamoto no Yoshinaka, Yoritomo's rival, from entering Kyoto in 1183 and chasing the Taira south.

* 1203: Yoritomo's successor as head of the Kamakura shogunate, Minamoto no Yoriie, was assassinated ; and former emperor Go-Toba was responsible for good relations with the shogunate when it was headed by Minamoto no Sanetomo from 1203 through 1219.

However, the city clearly appears in the historical record only with Minamoto no Yoritomo's founding of the Kamakura shogunate in 1192.

Takauji, founder of the Ashikaga shogunate which, at least nominally, ruled Japan during the 14th, 15th and 16th centuries, at first established his residence at the same site in Kamakura where Yoritomo's Ōkura Bakufu had been ( see above ), but in 1336 he left Kamakura in charge of his son Yoshiakira and went west in pursuit of Nitta Yoshisada.

When invited to return to Kyoto, he let it be known through his brother Tadayoshi that he felt safer where he was, and started to build himself a mansion in Ōkura, where first Kamakura shogun Minamoto no Yoritomo's residence had been.

The battle was fought on September 14, 1180 in the southwest of present-day Odawara, Kanagawa Prefecture near Yoritomo's headquarters at Kamakura.

That same year, Yoshitsune and Noriyori, Yoritomo's brothers, arrived in Kamakura and joined the Gempei War on the side of Yoritomo.

When Yoritomo's sons and heirs were assassinated, the shogun became a hereditary figurehead.

It seems therefore only natural that it should have been a city of a certain importance, likely to attract Yoritomo's attention.

Yoritomo's second son and third shogun Minamoto no Sanetomo spent most of his life staying out of politics and writing good poetry, but was nonetheless assassinated in February 1219 by his nephew Kugyō under the giant ginkgo tree that still stands at Tsurugaoka Hachiman-gū.

At that time Yoritomo's grandfather Minamoto no Tameyoshi, was the head of the Minamoto.

Yoritomo's half brother, Minamoto no Noriyori, was also exiled, while Minamoto no Yoshitsune, another half-brother, was forced to enter a monastery.

Soon enough, Yoritomo's passive exile was to be over.

In 1183, Minamoto no Yoshinaka, Yoritomo's rival and cousin, took Kyoto, driving the Taira ( and Emperor Antoku ) to Shikoku.

Placating Yoritomo's suspicions of treachery or betrayal, Yoshinaka survived an assault on his fortress at Hiuchiyama by Taira no Koremori and engaged Koremori again at the battle of Kurikara.

* 1180 Battle of Ishibashiyama-Minamoto no Yoritomo's first battle against the Taira.

In one cartoon a family is shown outside a theater with the head of the family addressing the doorman: `` Excuse me, but when we came out we found that we had left my daughter's handbag and my wife's behind ''.

The pro-Ibelin Chronicle of Ernoul later claimed that he was her lover, but it is likely that she and Baldwin IV were attempting to separate him from the political influence of his wife's family.

While his family remained in Arlington, he spent most of his time either in Bennington or on the road, where he could avoid his wife's nagging.

Originally from Massachusetts, William Wright had been a Baptist minister, but he later joined his wife's family in the Unitarian faith.

He married Queen Constance of Sicily, and a death in his wife's family in 1194 gave him possession of the Kingdom of Sicily, a source of vast wealth.

* Larry Fine ( of the Three Stooges ) and his family lived in hotels, due to his extravagant spending habits and his wife's dislike for housekeeping.

After his wife's death, his son, Charles Francis Adams, had him reinterred with his wife in the expanded family crypt in the United First Parish Church across the street, next to his parents.

At his home, he finds the charred remains of his wife's wristwatch and a family huddled in the ruins.

From then until his wife's death in 1939, Stravinsky led a double life, spending some time with his first family and the rest with Vera.

Julie's father remarried Sara Kinsbergen ( 1809 – 1878 ) two weeks after his first wife's death, and abandoned his family in 1835.

Nonetheless, Darius killed Intaphernes's entire family, excluding his wife's brother and son.

It remained the wife's for life, descending to her children, if any ; otherwise returning to her family, when the husband could deduct the bride-price if it had not been given to her, or return it if it had.

Anne Hathaway's Cottage, once the home of Anne Hathaway ( Shakespeare ) | Shakespeare's wife's family.

Near to the town are Anne Hathaway's Cottage at Shottery, the home of Shakespeare's wife's family prior to her marriage, and Mary Arden's House ( Palmer's Farm ), the family home of his mother.

Around the same time in New York City, a family from Vetschau, Germany, at Richard Hellmann's delicatessen on Columbus Avenue, featured his wife's homemade recipe in salads sold in their deli.

In 1863, M. V. Lyapunov retired from his scientific career and relocated his family to his wife's estate at Bolobonov, in the Simbirsk province ( now Ulyanovsk Oblast ).

In 1875, Henri Fantin-Latour married a fellow painter, Victoria Dubourg, after which he spent his summers on the country estate of his wife's family at Buré, Orne in Lower Normandy, where he died of lyme disease.

John's penchant for interfering with his wife's family, the rulers of Hungary, was problemmatic.

At the time of the attack on Saigon, Thiệu was out of town, having travelled to celebrate the new year at his wife's family ’ s home at Mỹ Tho in the Mekong Delta.

On 2 July, he suffered a heart attack and, surrounded by his family, he died in his wife's arms.

Following his wife's death, Johnson began a relationship with another family slave.

The Sundowners is a 1960 film that tells the story of an Australian outback family torn between the father's desires to continue his nomadic sheep-herding ways and the wife's and son's desire to settle down in one place.