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 Hojo Masako   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Masako, one of the most formidable political figures to take a place on the stage of Japan's warrior government, was the daughter of Hôjô Tokimasa and was married to Minamoto Yoritomo.
Masako proved as useful to her brother as she had once been to their father, and in 1218 she was dispatched to Kyoto to suggest that one of Retired Emperor Go-Toba's sons be adopted as heir to the childless Sanetomo.
Masako was a remarkable figure and such was her political ability and sway in Kamakura that she was given the nickname of 'ama-shôgun', or the nun-shôgun.
www.samurai-archives.com /masako.html   (520 words)

  
 Hojo Yasutoki - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Hojo Yasutoki (北条 泰時 Hōjō Yasutoki; 1183-1242, r.
When his father Yoshitoki and aunt Hojo Masako died, he succeeded shikken in 1224.
He installed Hojo Tokifusa as the first rensho.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hojo_Yasutoki   (170 words)

  
 Hojo Masako   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Hojo Masako (1157 - 1225) was the wife of Minamoto no Yoritomo founder and first shogun of the Kamakura shogunate of Japanese history.
After Yoritomo's death in 1199 Masako became a Buddhist Nun and along with her father Hojo and brother Hojo Yoshitoki usurped all political military power of the shogunate relegating the position and title of Seii Taishogun or shogun to a mere figurehead.
Controlling the puppet shogun and overall until her death Masako became to be the Ama Shogun or "Nun Shogun".
www.freeglossary.com /Masako_Hojp   (312 words)

  
 Welcome to the official website of Ten Shin Ichi Ryu - Kendo   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Hojo Masako is famous in Japanese history as the "Nun Shogun" (1157-1225).
In keeping with customs of the time, Hojo Masako became a Buddhist nun upon the death of her husband in 1199.
After Yoritomo's death, Hojo Masako along with her father and son, usurped the real ruling power from her dead husband's ruling Minamoto clan to her own Hojo clan.
www.tenshinichiryu.com /samurai_philosophy.htm   (725 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Minamoto no Yoritomo   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The Hojo clan (北条氏) in History of Japan is a family of regents of the Kamakura Shogunate.
Hojo Tokimasa as portrayed in the 2005 NHK Taiga Drama, Yoshitsune Hojo Tokimasa (北條 時政, Hojo Tokimasa, 1138-1215) was the first Hojo shikken (regent) of the Kamakura bakufu and head of the Hojo clan.
Yoritomo set himself up as the rightful heir of the Minamoto clan, and, with financial backing of the Hojo, his wife's family, he set up a capital at Kamakura in the east.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Minamoto-no-Yoritomo   (2388 words)

  
 Hojo Masako -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Her sons (Click link for more info and facts about Minamoto no Yoriie) Minamoto no Yoriie and (Click link for more info and facts about Minamoto no Sanetomo) Minamoto no Sanetomo were the second and third shoguns, respectively, of the Kamakura shogunate.
After the murder of the shogun Sanetomo in 1219, Masako and Yoshitoki suppressed the (Click link for more info and facts about Jokyu Incident) Jokyu Incident of 1221 and installed (Click link for more info and facts about Kujo Yoritsune) Kujo Yoritsune as a the fourth shogun in 1226.
Controlling the puppet shogun and overall shogunate until her death, Masako became to be called the Ama Shogun (尼将軍;) or "Nun Shogun".
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/h/ho/hojo_masako.htm   (143 words)

  
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Masako: (1157-1225): Daughter of Hojo Tokimasa, Masako has sometimes been referred to in Japanese history as Ama-Shogun, or the Nun Shogun, and Nii no Zenni, or the Zen Nun Nii.
Masako was appointed governor of Kyoto in 1185.
After her son Sanetomo was assassinated in 1219, Masako had a two year old child, Fujiwara Yoritsune appointed emperor as she governed together with her brother, the Kamakura Regent, Hojo Yoshitoki.
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 Hojo clan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Hojo clan (北条氏) in the History of Japan was a family of regents of the Kamakura Shogunate.
Hojo Tokimasa helped Minamoto no Yoritomo, a son-in-law.
See the late Hojo clan for the Hojo clan in Sengoku Period.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Regents_of_the_Kamakura_shogunate   (127 words)

  
 Kamakura Today - history
Masako Hojo, the widow of Yoritomo and the mother of two late Shogun, turned hereafter most influential political figure wielding her power, and she was called the Nun Shogun.
The First Regent was Tokimasa {toh-key-mah-sah} Hojo (1138-1215), Masako's father, and second regency passed to Yoshitoki {yoh-she-toh-key} Hojo (1163-1224), Masako's bother, and from then onward, the regency was handed down to the legitimate sons of the Hojo family one after another until the last 16th Regent.
The Hojos gained power gradually through a series of winning battles with local warrior factions that once used to be Yoritomo's loyal followers.
www.kamakuratoday.com /e/history/history2.html   (1176 words)

  
 BBC - h2g2 - Samurai Society
With the fall of the Hojo and the Kamakura bakufu in the 1330s, an attempt to restore full Imperial authority reiterated the civil government's dependence on the warrior clans.
In the 12th Century it was Hojo Masako, widow of Minamoto Yoritomo who brought the Hojo regents to power.
Masako - like many samurai widows - became a Buddhist nun on her husband's death, but her influence remained so strong that she became known as the general in the nun's habit.
www.bbc.co.uk /dna/h2g2/A663068   (1969 words)

  
 World History
In 1203 Hojo Tokimasa, Masako's father, assumed the position of regent (shikken) for the shogun, an office that was held until 1333 by nine successive members of the Hojo family.
Instead, the Hojo family dispatched a bakufu army that occupied Kyoto, and Go-Toba was arrested and banished to the island of Oki.
The bond between the Hojo and the Kamakura vassals was strained to the breaking point.
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 The CyberSybils Unroll Scroll Seven ~ Yose
Samurai leader Masako Hojo had been trained in the art of war and the game of Go — two most useful skills for a warrior in 12th century Japan to possess — had she been a man and not a woman.
Robes flew in billowing disarray as Masako dislodged her opponent and made the notorious samurai’s leap, her once-assailant left lying limbs askew amidst a pile of silk and tasseled cords.
And as for the illustrious future of Yose Shogun Masako Hojo, she was to become one of the greatest leaders of the Samurai, defender of her clan and built many temples to reflect the strength of the Buddhist sect she was to found during her reign: the Zen.
cybersybils.com /Yose.html   (733 words)

  
 Minamoto No Sanetomo   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
After the death of his father Yoritomo in 1199, Sanetomo's grandfather Hojo Tokimasa usurped all political and military power of the shogunate, relegating the position and title of Seii Taishogun, or shogun, to a mere figurehead.
In the next year, 1204, Yoriie was assassinated by the Hojo.
Sanetomo, understanding his own powerlessness in comparison to the Hojo and not wanting to meet the same fate as his brother, put all of his time and energy into writing poetry and gaining posts within the powerless but honorary imperial court.
www.wikiverse.org /minamoto-no-sanetomo   (321 words)

  
 Hojo Masako: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com - All about Hojo Masako
Hojo Masako: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com - All about Hojo Masako
After Yoritomo's death in 1199, Masako became a Buddhist Nun and along with her father Hojo Tokimasa[?] and brother Hojo Yoshitoki[?], usurped all political and military power of the shogunate, relegating the position and title of Seii Taishogun, or shogun, to a mere figurehead.
After the murder of the shogun Sanetomo in 1219, Masako and Yoshitoki suppressed the Jokyu incident of 1221 and installed Kujo Yoritsune as a the fourth shogun in 1226.
www.encyclopedian.com /ho/Hojo-Masako.html   (166 words)

  
 history
At age 30, Yoritomo married Masako Hojo {mah-sah-ko hoh-joe} (1157-1225), a daughter of a local warlord, and slowly but steadily gained momentum.
Growing up from a lord of a small manor in the Izu Peninsula, the Hojos became the most dominant family in 1285 after defeating the last rebel Adachi {ah-dah-che} faction (See Amanawa Jinja), and established the unswerving feudalism in Japan's medieval ages.
The battle took a bitter toll and 870-odd samurai of the Hojos committed mass suicide near Hokaiji, including the 14th, 15th and 16th Regents.
www.asahi-net.or.jp /~QM9T-KNDU/history.htm   (3773 words)

  
 A Teachers' & Textbook Writers'(A HISTORICAL OUTLINE)
The Hojo family -- relative of Yoritomo's wife, Masako -- acting as regents, declared the 2-year-old Kujo Yoritsune, a distant relative of Yoritomo, as shogun, and in practice retained the reins of power in their own hands.
This was the signal for the court, under the cloistered emperor Gotoba, to attempt to regain political power, and in 1221, the court issued an order for the subjugation of the regent Hojo Yoshitoki, Masako's younger brother.
This established the Kamakura shogunate's position as stronger than that of the court, enabling it to interfere in matters of succession to the throne, and to choose or change emperors in accordance with its own views.
www.mc.maricopa.edu /dept/d10/asb/anthro2003/legacy/japanese_history.html   (2049 words)

  
 Hokokuji
They were a troubled family though, all of their descendants killed by relatives, Yoritomo's half-brother mercilessly hunted down and beheaded, Yoritomo himself killed in a fall from a horse in 1199.
Masako ruled from behind the scenes during the succeeding Hojo regency.
The Hojo regime ended in 1333 with a magistrate's timely adjustment of loyalty to an Imperial restoration, which rewarded the new rulers of Kamakura with the designation of Ashikaga shoguns.
www.kamprint.com /hokokuji.html   (310 words)

  
 Women Warriors - Female Samurai In Ancient Japan? - Japanese Culture
Women were also expected to defend their homes in times of war.
This period in Japanese history produced some of the most famous women: Tomoe Gozen, wife of Minamoto Yoshinaka and a fierce warrior very proficient with sword and bow; and Hojo Masako (1157-1225), wife of Minamoto Yoritomo and known as the "nun shogun".
Her efforts gave the Hojo clan true power over the now 'puppet regime' Minamoto clan.
www.bellaonline.com /articles/art24550.asp   (554 words)

  
 Blissful Ignorance :: View topic - Dance of the Curse 7/?
Masako Hojo stood not far away from them, talking to one of the nurses, a serious expression on her face.
Masako smiled back with a mysterious smile of her own.
Masako looked up from the chart she was reading and glanced at Arisa.
www.blissfulignorance.com /phpBB/viewtopic.php?p=82691   (1693 words)

  
 Histoire du Japon, 4e partie
Depuis 1177, il était marié à HOJO Masako (1157-1225), fille d'HOJO Tokimasa (1138-1215), ex-féal des TAIRA et ex-gardien de Yoritomo rallié à lui.
Sanetomo, deuxième fils de Yoritomo et de Masako, devient alors shogun.
En 1205, cette dernière et son frère, HOJO Yoshitoki (1163-1224), obligent leur père Tokimasa à se retirer pour, trop amoureux de sa seconde et jeune épouse, avoir comploté contre les intérêts des HOJO.
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 Joei Shikimoku --  Encyclopædia Britannica   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The shikimoku, or formulary (called Joei because of its promulgation during the year so named), was a collection of rules for the guidance of the shogun's courts; it dealt with...
regent whose administrative innovations in the shogunate, or military dictatorship, were responsible for institutionalizing that office as the major ruling body in Japan until 1868 and for stabilizing Hojo rule of Japan for almost a century.
Hojo Tokimasa (1138–1215), the first known member of the family, was charged by the Japanese ruler Taira Kiyomori with the co-wardenship of the exiled Minamoto Yoritomo in 1160.
www.britannica.com /eb/article-9043709?tocId=9043709   (414 words)

  
 NHK 2005 historical drama "Yoshitsune" episode summaries
One day, Yoritomo meets Hojo Masako, daughter of Hojo Tokimasa who has watched Yoritomo by the order of the Heike.
In Izu, Hojo Masako declares to have Yoritomo as her husband, which bewilders her father, Tokimasa.
Yoshitsune witnesses Masako being jealous when she comes to know about the relationship between Yoritomo and Kamenomae.
www.sonic.net /~tabine/Heike/Heike_Yoshitsune_taiga_summaries.html   (3065 words)

  
 female samurai
chief among these is Minamoto Yoshinaka's wife, Tomoe Gozen, but the period produced numerous other heroic samurai women, including Hojo Masako, the wife of Minamoto Yoritomo, who was known as "the general in nun's habit" (on her husbands death, she became a Buddhist nun, the traditional fate of samurai windows).
Masako was a prominent political player in the early years of the Hojo regency that succeeded her husband, at one point engaging in open conflict with her father.
From her new position as a Buddhist nun, she successfully bullied the samurai class into standing by the shogunate.
victorian.fortunecity.com /duchamp/410/femalesam.html   (642 words)

  
 Hojo Masako - TheBestLinks.com - Buddhist, Shogunate, Shogun, 1226, ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
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 December 1990 IMJS Reports
He emphasized the fact that the workshop embraced a broad, interdisciplinary perspective on the subject of women and Buddhism in pre-modern Japan, an approach which was again employed by the panel at hand.
The first paper-presenter was Martin Collcutt (Princeton University) on the topic of "Hojo Masako: The Nun-Shogun Reevaluated." With reference to the Gukansho and the Azuma Kagami, Collcutt attempted to debunk the rumors which came to surround Hojo Masako's career during later periods of history and have persisted into modern times.
Whereas rumors and historical slander have prevented Hojo Masako from becoming an exemplum for women, Collcutt concludes that, as a medieval Japanese woman, she was both unique and representative.
www.columbia.edu /cu/ealac/imjs/reports/1990-12   (3246 words)

  
 Kamakura Period: Lesson 2   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Yoritomo, son of Minamoto no Yoshitomo, was banished by Taira no Kiyomori to Izu, a province of Japan, after the Heiji Rebellion.
He generated a vast rapport in Izu with local families, and soon thereafter, he married Hojo Masako of the little known Hojo family.
In 1180, Prince Mochihito set out a verdict to the Minamoto families to rise up against Taira no Kiyomori and the Taira family that had wrestled power into their own hands from the Minamoto.
cate.blogs.com /unit_02/lesson_2   (207 words)

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