A report on Minamoto no Yoritomo, Kamakura and Hōjō Tokimasa

Portrait by Fujiwara no Takanobu (1179)
Hōjō Tokimasa, Governor of Sagami Province in Dai Nihon Rokujūyoshō by Utagawa Yoshitora
Gate of Seigan-ji in Nagoya, the site of the former family villa and his birthplace
A map of Kamakura with the approximate location of the most important historical sites. The darker color indicates flatland.
Hōjō Tokimasa by Kurihara Nobumitsu
An ukiyo-e by Yoshitoshi depicting Yoritomo and his retainers releasing cranes to mourn for the war dead in the Mutsu and Dewa Conquest.
View over Kamakura's Sagami Bay coast from Hase-dera (Kamakura)
The grave of Hōjō Tokimasa, in Izunokuni, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan
Presumed portrait of Minamoto no Yoritomo, Kamakura period, Tokyo National Museum.
Tsurugaoka Hachiman-gū and the dankazura during the Edo period
Grave of Yoritomo in Kamakura
Portrait traditionally believed to be of Minamoto no Yoritomo, but now believed to be of Ashikaga Tadayoshi
The stele on the spot where Yoritomo's Ōkura Bakufu used to stand
The Hōjō family crest, ubiquitous in Kamakura
This field is the former site of Tōshō-ji, the Hōjō family temple. In 1333, the Hōjō clan committed mass suicide here.
The Kamakura-fu at the time of its maximum expansion
A 1685 illustration from the Shinpen Kamakurashi of the lot where the Kantō kubō mansion once stood. It was left empty in the hope that he may one day return.
The monument on the spot at Ryūkō-ji where Nichiren was saved from execution
The statue of Amida Buddha at Kōtoku-in
Visitors crowd the entrance way of Tsurugaoka Hachiman-gū
Sasuke Inari Shrine's entrance
The parade during the Kamakura Festival
The Ōmachi-side of the Shakadō Pass
Hōjō Masako's yagura at Jufuku-ji. Her ashes are not actually there, as they were lost centuries ago.

After setting himself the rightful heir of the Minamoto clan, he led his clan against the Taira clan from his capital in Kamakura, beginning the Genpei War in 1180.

- Minamoto no Yoritomo

Not much is known about Hōjō Tokimasa's early life prior to Minamoto no Yoritomo's arrival in Izu.

- Hōjō Tokimasa

Again according to the Azuma Kagami, the first of the Kamakura shōguns, Minamoto no Yoritomo, chose it as a base partly because it was his ancestors' land (his yukari no chi), partly because of these physical characteristics.

- Kamakura

He married into the Hōjō clan, led by Hōjō Tokimasa, marrying Tokimasa's daughter, Hōjō Masako.

- Minamoto no Yoritomo

Minamoto no Yoritomo made his father-in-law Hōjō Tokimasa and his men carry by hand the stones to build it to pray for the safe delivery of his son Yoriie.

- Kamakura

Yoritomo created his base and capital at Kamakura, in Izu.

- Hōjō Tokimasa
Portrait by Fujiwara no Takanobu (1179)

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Kamakura shogunate

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The feudal military government of Japan during the Kamakura period from 1185 to 1333.

The feudal military government of Japan during the Kamakura period from 1185 to 1333.

This wooden Kongorikishi statue was created during the Kamakura shogunate during 14th-century Japan. It originally guarded the gate to Ebara-dera, a temple in Sakai, Osaka.
Minamoto no Yoritomo's goes to Kyoto at beginning of the Kamakura Shogunate
Grave of Minamoto no Yoritomo
Site of Hōjō Takatoki's death

The Kamakura shogunate was established by Minamoto no Yoritomo after victory in the Genpei War and appointing himself as Shōgun.

Yoritomo governed Japan as military dictator from the eastern city of Kamakura with the Emperor of Japan and his Imperial Court in the official capital city of Heian-kyō (Kyoto) as figureheads.

Hōjō Tokimasa, the father 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.

Hōjō Masako by Kikuchi Yōsai (菊池 容斎)

Hōjō Masako

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Japanese Buddhist nun and politician who exercised significant power in the early years of the Kamakura period, which was reflected by her contemporary sobriquet of the "nun shogun".

Japanese Buddhist nun and politician who exercised significant power in the early years of the Kamakura period, which was reflected by her contemporary sobriquet of the "nun shogun".

Hōjō Masako by Kikuchi Yōsai (菊池 容斎)
Hōjō Masako's tomb at the Jufuku-ji, Kamakura, Japan

She was the eldest daughter of Hōjō Tokimasa and sister of Hōjō Yoshitoki, both of them shikkens of the Kamakura shogunate.

She was the wife of Minamoto no Yoritomo, and mother ofMinamoto no Yoriie and Minamoto no Sanetomo, the first, second and third shōguns of the Kamakura period.

The Minamoto center was at the city of Kamakura, to the east of Izu in Sagami Province.

Minamoto no Yoriie

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Minamoto no Yoriie's grave in Shuzenji, Izu

Minamoto no Yoriie (源 頼家) was the second shōgun (1202–1203) of Japan's Kamakura shogunate, and the first son of first shōgun Yoritomo.

Minamoto no Yoriie was born to Hōjō Masako at Hiki Yoshikazu's residence in Kamakura.

Before he was born, his father Yoritomo had Hōjō Tokimasa and his men carry stones to build the Dankazura on Wakamiya Ōji to pray for the child's safe delivery.