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Yoritomo, after the defeat and almost complete extermination of his family at the hands of the Taira clan, managed in the space of a few years to go from being a fugitive hiding from his enemies inside a tree trunk to being the most powerful man in the land.
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However, after defeating the Taira clan in the Genpei War, Minamoto no Yoritomo seized certain powers from the aristocracy in 1185 and was given the title of shogun in 1192.
Yoritomo decided to take part in this, especially after things escalated between the Taira and Minamoto after the death of Minamoto no Yorimasa and Prince Mochihito himself.
Later, returning to Kyoto after a battle, Yoshinaka was angered to find out that the Emperor had sided with his cousin Yoritomo.
* 1199: Shortly after Tsuchimikado's reign began, Minamoto no Yoritomo died.
The area around Hirosaki was part of the domains of the Northern Fujiwara in the Heian period, and were awarded to the Nambu clan by Minamoto Yoritomo after the defeat of the Northern Fujiwara in the early Kamakura period.
The area was nominally under control of the Northern Fujiwara in the Heian period, and became part of the holdings granted to the Nanbu clan after the defeat of the North Fujiwara by Minamoto Yoritomo in the Kamakura period.
The area was nominally under control of the Northern Fujiwara in the Heian period, and became part of the holdings granted to the Nanbu clan after the defeat of the North Fujiwara by Minamoto Yoritomo in the Kamakura period.
The shogunate system came after the Imperial Court, in which Minamoto no Yoritomo created in 1192, and became the first Shogun of Japan.
Before being sent to the Nara monks, Shigehira is treated well at Izu ( a bath is prepared for him, wine is served, a beautiful lady serving Yoritomo, Senju-no-mae, sings several songs ( with Buddhist meaning ) and plays the lute ; Shigehira also sings and plays the lute – after Shigehira ’ s execution, Senju-no-mae becomes a nun ).
Yoshitsune delivers Munemori to Yoritomo in Kamakura, but after Kajiwara Kagetoki ’ s slander Yoritomo suspects Yoshitsune of treachery and does not allow him to enter Kamakura.
During the Gempei War, Minamoto no Yoritomo prayed at this shrine for victory over his enemies, after his defeat at the Battle of Ishibashiyama, which was also located with the borders of present-day Hakone.
During the Kamakura period it was the center of the domains awarded to Nanbu Mitsuyuki, a retainer of Minamoto Yoritomo after the defeat of the Northern Fujiwara clan in 1187.
He was initially Koremune Tadayoshi ( 惟宗忠久 ) but after being given the territory of Shimazu, Hyūga Province to rule from by Minamoto no Yoritomo, he took the name of Shimazu.
Yoritomo ordered Noriyori to arrest their brother ; after trying to talk Yoritomo out of it, Noriyori simply disobeyed outright.
Yoshitoki was now also in a very powerful position, especially after Yoritomo died in 1199.
In 1192, after the birth of Yoritomo's and Masako's second son, Minamoto no Sanetomo, Minamoto no Yoritomo was granted the title of shogun by Cloistered Emperor Go-Shirakawa, who died later that year.
Yoritomo and defeat
Finally, Minamoto Yoritomo ( 1147 – 1199 ) rose from his headquarters at Kamakura ( in the Kantō region, southwest of modern Tokyo ) to defeat the Taira, and with them the child emperor Emperor Antoku they controlled, in the Genpei War ( 1180 – 1185 ).
Finally, Minamoto no Yoritomo rose from his headquarters in the Kantō region to defeat the Taira, and with them the child emperor under Taira control, Emperor Antoku, in the Genpei War.
However, having been shamed, Yoshinaka was now determined to beat Yoritomo to Kyoto, defeat the Taira on his own, and take control of the Minamoto for himself.
Hōjō Tokimasa helped Minamoto no Yoritomo, a son-in-law, defeat the forces of the Taira to become Japan's first Shogun.
He sought to defeat the Taira himself and to reach Kyoto before Yoritomo, claiming victory and the according honor and power.
Minamoto no Yoshitomo had been the head of the clan at this time ; upon his defeat at the hands of Taira no Kiyomori, two of his sons were killed and the third, Minamoto no Yoritomo, was banished.
Yoritomo and extermination
They gained power by supporting the extermination of their close relatives the Taira by intermarrying with and supporting Minamoto no Yoritomo in the Battle of Dan-no-ura.
Yoritomo and family
Since Yoritomo was descended from the imperial family on his father's side and the Fujiwara noble family on his mother's side, he received his first court title and was appointed an administrator.
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.
Kiyomori's sons, the last of the head family of the Kammu Heishi line was eventually destroyed by the armies of Minamoto no Yoritomo at the Battle of Dan-no-ura, the last battle of the Genpei War.
Once Minamoto Yoritomo had consolidated his power, he established a new government at his family home in Kamakura.
Despite a strong beginning, Yoritomo failed to consolidate the leadership of his family on a lasting basis.
Hōjō Masako and her family had stood by Yoritomo through it all.
The family took its name from the Date district ( now Fukushima Prefecture ) of Mutsu Province, which had been awarded to Isa Tomomune by Minamoto no Yoritomo, the first Kamakura shogun, for his assistance in the Genpei War ( 1180 – 85 ) and in Minamoto no Yoritomo ’ s struggle for power with his brother, Minamoto no Yoshitsune.
The Date family, descendants of Fujiwara no Uona ( 721-783 ) received the Date District in 1189 from the Shôgun Minamoto no Yoritomo.
, also known as, is the founder of the Kujō family ( at the encouragement of Minamoto no Yoritomo ), although some sources cite Fujiwara no Morosuke ( 908-960 ) as its founder.
The family took its name from the Date district ( now Fukushima Prefecture ) of Mutsu Province which had been awarded in 1189 to Isa Tomomune by Minamoto no Yoritomo, the first Kamakura shogun, for his assistance in the Genpei War and in Minamoto no Yoritomo ’ s struggle for power with his brother, Minamoto no Yoshitsune.
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In 1192, Yoritomo was awarded the title of Sei-i Taishōgun by the emperor and the political system he developed with a succession of shogun at the head became known as a shogunate.
As for Yoritomo, the new head of the Minamoto, he was exiled to Hirugashima, an island in Izu province, which at that time was under the rule of the Hōjō clan.
In 1180, Yoritomo was defeated at Ishibashiyama, his first major battle ; but his early years as an insurgent chief were mostly spent in consolidating his power over the warrior aristocrats in the Kantō area, most of whom accepted his authority peaceably.
Yoritomo thus established the supremacy of the warrior samurai caste and the first bakufu ( shogunate ) at Kamakura, beginning the feudal age in Japan which lasted until the mid-19th century.
Minamoto no Yoritomo, angry at Yoshinaka's actions, ordered his brothers Minamoto no Yoshitsune and Minamoto no Noriyori to attack and kill Yoshinaka.
After internal struggles within the Minamoto clan, Minamoto no Yoshitsune, a brother of Yoritomo finally destroyed the Taira clan entirely in 1185 at the Battle of Dan-no-ura.
In 1180, Yoshitsune heard that Yoritomo, now head of the Minamoto clan, had raised an army at the request of Prince Mochihito to fight against the Taira clan ( also known as the Heike ) which had usurped the power of the emperor.
Minamoto no Yoshitsune and Minamoto no Noriyori were forced into priesthood, while Minamoto no Yoritomo, at the age of thirteen, was spared and sent to exile in Izu, the domain of Hōjō Tokimasa.
It was at this point that Minamoto no Yoritomo took over leadership of the Minamoto clan and began traveling the country seeking to rendezvous with allies.
Minamoto no Yoritomo became alarmed at the lack of archery skills his samurai had.
The story also says that there was a lot of undergrowth near the Yubatake, which was cut by Yoritomo, suggesting that there was no settlement near today's Kusatsu at that time.
* 1199 ( Kenkyū 10, 13th day of the 1st month ): Shogun Yoritomo dies at age 53 in Kamakura.
However, at this point, the Minamoto armies, under Yukiie, Yoritomo, Yoshitsune, and Noriyori were surrounding the capital.
was a late Heian period general, who fought alongside his brothers Minamoto no Yoritomo and Minamoto no Yoshitsune at a number of battles of the Genpei War.
Many years later, during the Genpei War, he led Taira clan forces to a victory against Minamoto no Yoritomo at Ishibashiyama in September 1180.
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