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The Kamakura shogunate (鎌倉幕府) was a feudal military dictatorship ruled by the shogun (A hereditary military dictator of Japan; the shoguns ruled Japan until the revolution of 1867-68) s from 1185 to 1333.
He asserted the primacy of the military side of the government and was given the title of shogun (A hereditary military dictator of Japan; the shoguns ruled Japan until the revolution of 1867-68) (征夷大将軍) in 1192 while the system of government he established became formalized as the bakufu.
The Kamakura bakufu came to an end in 1333 with the defeat and destruction of the Hōjō clan.
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 Encyclopedia: Kamakura shogunate   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The Kamakura shogunate (Japanese: 鎌倉幕府, Kamakura bakufu) was a feudal military dictatorship ruled by the shoguns from 1185 to 1333.
Based in Kamakura, Japan, this period draws its name from the capital of the shogunate and is known as the Kamakura period.
Shikken (執権;) was the regent of the shogun in the Kamakura shogunate in Japan.
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 MSN Encarta - Japan
Kamakura fell to the rebel forces and the Hōjō were ousted from power, bringing the Kamakura shogunate to an end.
Despite the splendor of the shogunal court, the Ashikaga shoguns were never able to assert as much control over the country as the Kamakura shogunate had.
Although the powers of the shogun and emperor had been eclipsed, the existence of the imperial capital at Kyōto was a potent reminder that the country had once been unified.
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 shogunate --  Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - The online encyclopedia you can trust!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Legally the shogunate was under the control of the emperor, and the shogun's authority was limited to control of the military forces of the country.
Eventually the Kamakura shogunate came to possess military, administrative, and judicial functions, although the imperial government remained the recognized legal authority.
The Edo shogunate was the most powerful central government Japan had yet seen; it controlled the emperor, the daimyo, and the religious establishments, administered Tokugawa lands, and handled Japanese foreign affairs.
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 Kamakura
Shogun was a represent of Samurai and had a vast land as his property.
Moreover, an Imperial prince was chosen as a shogun by the Hojo.
Many Gokenin were not satisfied with the shogunate controlled by Hojo after a battle between Mongolian troops and Japanese force because Gokenins were in great need and the Kamakura shogunate did not cope with the situation.
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 A Time of Transitions
For years, the Kamakura shogunate held a much stronger position than the imperial court, enabling it to interfere in matters of succession to the throne and to move emperors on and off the throne almost at will.
The Ashikaga Shogun's rule in the provinces was passed down through men called the shugo, the military arm of the government, and the jito, the civil arm of local government.
The Kamakura shogunate was a feudal military government that lived within the shell of an old imperial government and landholding system.
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 Japanese History
Resistance to the shogunate's conservative policies coalesced around advocates of a return to full imperial rule, and between 1866 and 1869 the Tokugawa armies were gradually defeated by an alliance of provincial forces from Choshu, Satsuma, and Tosa acting for the Meiji emperor, who formally resumed imperial rule in January 1868.
Samurai were active during the Kamakura shogunate and with their masters were responsible for the strife of the Ashikaga period.
The Tokugawa shogunate was faced by increasingly severe internal problems in the first half of the 19th century, and its failure to deal effectively with foreign incursions into Japanese territory resulted in the uniting of opposition forces behind a policy of restoring the emperor to full power.
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 Kamakura, Japan  -  Travel Photos by Galen R Frysinger, Sheboygan, Wisconsin
Kamakura is home to several museums, including the Kamakura Museum of Modern Art (founded in 1951).
Kamakura was historically important as the seat of Japan's first military government, established by Minamoto Yoritomo, who set up his headquarters here in 1180, during the Minamoto clan's struggle with the Taira.
Kamakura lost its political importance after 1333 when the last of the Hôjô, defeated by the pro-imperial rebellion led by Emperor Go-Daigo, committed suicide.
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 Kamakura Today - history
Kamakura was a natural fortress surrounded north, east and west by hills, though no higher than 150 meters, and the south bordered by the ocean or the Bay of Sagami {sah-gah-me}.
It was a rule those days that the seat of the Shogun be succeeded by the first legitimate son of the Shogun.
Although Yoriie had another son Kugyo {koo-gyo} (1200-1219) by a different woman, the Shogun was succeeded by Yoriie's younger brother Sanetomo {sah-neh-toh-moh} (1192-1219) as a consequence of the dispute between the two families, thereby the Hojos began to exert greater influences in the government and developed into a real powerhouse.
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 Persons of Ancient Japan
Ashikaga (family): Japanese family that occupied the office of shogun from 1338 to 1573, known as the Muromachi period because the shogun's palace was in the Muromachi district of Kyoto.
The Ashikaga shoguns became puppets of the contending daimyo in the bitter fighting of the 16th century, the so-called Epoch of Warring States.
Despite their uneven political record, the Ashikaga shoguns, especially Yoshimitsu and Yoshinori, were great patrons of the arts, responsible for the brilliant Muromachi culture and for such masterpieces as Kyoto's Golden Pavilion.
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The first shogun was Minamoto Yoritomo, whose victory in the Genpei War of 1181- 1185 and subsequent alliance with important figures at the imperial court enabled him to establish a military government in the town of Kamakura in eastern Japan.
Shogunate: the English term for the government of the shogun.
Under the Edo shogunate, provincial lords or daimyo exercised control over the taxation and legal affairs of their own domains, while the shogunate controlled foreign relations and relations among domains.
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 Shogun   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
A Shōgun's administration is a shogunate, or bakufu (幕府) in Japanese.
At the launch of the Kamakura shogunate, the shogun seized power from the Imperial Court in Kyoto, becoming the practical ruler of Japan until the Meiji Restoration.
The shoguns also took lovers from among the ranks of the samurai, a practice known as shudo, "the way of the young", or nanshoku, "male color".
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 shogun   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
This new regime was known as the Kamakura shogunate, since Yoritomo kept his bakufu (literally "tent government") at Kamakura, away from corrupting court life in Kyoto.
Interrupted by the anti-Hojo "restoration" of 1333-1336 led by Emperor Go-Daigo, shogunal rule was restored by the Ashikaga, who governed in alliance with the daimyo, until daimyo rivalries exploded around 1470.
This period was known as the Muromachi shogunate after the Ashikaga residence in Kyoto's Muromachi district.
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 Wikinfo | History of Japan
During the early part of the 17th century, Japan's Tokugawa Shogunate suspected that the traders and missionaries were actually forerunners of a military conquest by European powers.
He had managed to impress Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu with his seafaring knowledge and was made an honorary Samurai and granted a large estate.
This isolation lasted for 200 years, until Commodore Matthew Perry of the U.S. Navy forced the opening of Japan to the West with the Convention of Kanagawa in 1854 and the Harris Treaty was signed with the United States on July 29, 1858.
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 history
It was a rule of the day that the seat of the Shogun be succeeded by the first legitimate son of the Shogun.
Kamakura governors were usually young when they assumed the post, and therefore, they were figureheads with the real power resting in the hands of vice governors.
Throughout this Ashikaga era, Kamakura was the stage of power struggles between the governors and vice-governors, sometimes involving the Shogun in Kyoto.
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 History of Japan
It was the beginning of the era of shoguns, the fudal period ruled by militaristic bushi (samurai) class.
They threatened shogun to announce that the Hosokawa was the loyal army, and the Yamana was the revolt.
After the shogunate was forced to open the door to foreign countries, some people began to shift their loyalty from the shogunate to the emperor.
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For Nichiren Daishonin, the area where the Law of True Buddhism had to be first spread was the capital city which housed the Kamakura Shogunate, the seat of government, and the center of the economy and culture.
The Kamakura Shogunate was proud of the glory and splendor of having priests such as Ryokan at the Ritsu temple of Gokurakuji, Gyobin at the Nembutsu (Pure Land) temple of Jokomyoji and Doryu at the Zen temple of Kenchoji, among many others.
Ema Mitsutoki was a grandson of the second regent of the Kamakura Shogunate, Hojo Yoshitoki and son of Hojo Tomotoki, a member of the Supreme Court of the Shogunate.
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 Minamoto no Sanetomo - ArtPolitic Encyclopedia of Politics : Information Portal
1203-1219) was the third shogun of the Kamakura Shogunate and the last head of the Minamoto clan of Japan.
Sanetomo was the second son of the founder of the Kamakura shogunate Minamoto no Yoritomo, his mother was Hojo Masako, and his older brother was the second Kamakura shogun Minamoto no Yoriie.
Sanetomo was assasinated on New Year's Day 1219 by his nephew, son of the second Kamakura shogun Yoriie, at the steps of Tsurugaoka Hachiman Shrine[?] in Kamakura, Japan.
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 History of Japan
Minamoto-no-Yoritomo died shortly after founding the Kamakura Shogunate, The house of Genji perished when the third Shogun Minamoto-no-Sanetomo was assassinated in 1219.
After the Shogunate was forced to open the door to foreign countries, many people began to shift their loyalty from the Shogunate to the Emperor.
The shogunate send an army to conquer the two areas, but in vain as their equipment was out of date, and was not a match for the modern army of Satsuma and Choshu.
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 Warring States Japan
Neither the shogun nore the emperor had enough power to restrict or control the feudal houses (daimyo), which by 1467 had grown to almost 260 in number.
It looked increasingly like war would break out right in the shogun's capital, and the Yoshimasa realized that if such a war broke out, the entire country would plunge into war because the shogun, occupied with a war in his own capital, would be seen as powerless to control regional conflicts.
The shogun declared Yoshimi to be a rebel and the Onin War then became a clash between the shogun (supported by Hosokawa) and the shogun's brother (supported by Yamana).
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 Kamakura Today - sightseeing
When the Great Buddha Statue of Todaiji in Nara Prefecture was reconstructed in 1195, Yoritomo Minamoto {yoh-re-toh-moh me-nah-moh-toh} (1147-1199), the founder of the Kamakura Shogunate, participated the inauguration together with his wife Masako {mah-sah-koh} (1157-1225).
The Kamakura Shogunate, then controlled by Hojo regents, did not give financial aids to the project because they patronized mainly Zen temples, whereas the Statue they were aiming at was that of Amida (Amitabha in Sanskrit), which was venerated by Jodo sect Buddhists.
The Kamakura Shogunate had fallen two years earlier and the area was still a battlefield between the new-comers and the remnants of the Hojo troops.
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 Stars & Stripes
Sanetomo, the third shogun of the Kamakura Shogunate, was assassinated by his nephew Kugyo on Jan. 1, 1219, when he visited the Tsurugaoka Shrine.
Kamakura Shogunate was taken over by the Hojo family — the lineage of Yoritomo’s wife Masako Hojo.
The Hojo ruled until 1333, and as regents of the Kamakura Shogunate they united the powers of samurai warriors and saved Japan from the invasions of the Mongols in 1274 and 1281.
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 Samurai - free-definition
The last hurrah of original samurai was in 1867 when samurai from Choshu and Satsuma provinces defeated the shogunate forces in favor of the rule of the emperor.
They had defied shogun in ways by taking matters into their own hands but it was an act of Loyalty and Rectitude as well.
It is set in feudal Japan somewhere around the year 1600 and gives a highly fictionalized account of the rise of Tokugawa Ieyasu to the Shogunate, seen through the eyes of an English sailor whose fictional heroics are loosely based on William Adams' exploits.
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Hojo Yoshitoki (1163-1224): The Hojo family which held the title of Shikken, or Regent of Kamakura from 1200 to 1333, were descendants of Taira Sadamori who had descended from Prince Katsubara-shinno (786-853), son of the Emperor Kammu.
Hojo Yoshitoki was the second Regent of Kamakura, son of Hojo Tokimasa and brother of Masa-ko (governor of Kyoto and wife of Minamoto Yoritomo, the first Minamoto Shogun or powerful lieutenant-general and founder of the Kamakura Bakufu.).
The Shogunate then proceeded in distributing the land of the vanquished to their own vassals and established Shogunal deputies in order to keep the court under surveillance and control, thus strengthening even more the Hojo Clan's hold on the nation which ended up lasting for one hundred years 4.
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 Feudal Japan: The Kamakura Bakufu
The term comes from the title that Minamoto Yoritomo demanded when he defeated the Taira: Sei i tai shogun, "barbarian conquering supreme general." The shogun, and the military government beneath him, really did not control much of Japan.
She was a Buddhist nun, so she was known as the "Nun Shogun." She displaced the son who had inherited from his father and installed another son, who was soon assassinated.
   The defining moment for the Kamakura bakufu was the invasion of Japan by the Mongols.
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 Highlight of a Japanese sword   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
For example, the shapes of middle stage of Kamakura reminds of that of first stage of Kamakura, and the shapes of last stage of Kamakura are close to that of next age Northern and Southern Dynasties Era.
The Kamakura shogunate ruined in 1333 and a court nobles came to power.
The shape is that of middle stage of Kamakura Era, that is, Mihaba near Nakago and Kissaki is aimost the same size and Kissaki became to be Ikubi-Kissaki.
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 Japanese History
Theoretically speaking, the post was under the emperor, but a shogun could move armies without emperor’s permission, so he was de facto the strongest person in Japan.
Minamoto establishes a military government (the Bakufu or Shogunate) at Kamakura that is independent from the emperor and his bureaucracy in Kyoto.
This is the end of the Muromachi shogunate and the beginning of the Civil Wars.
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 Minamoto Yoritomo --  Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - Your gateway to all Britannica has to offer!
In 1192 the cloistered emperor (see insei) granted him the title of shogun, which made him the supreme authority over all military forces in the country.
He was thus able to rule without actually overthrowing the emperor, a pattern that was to be emulated by future shogunates.
It was exercised instead by successive members of the Hojo family, who acted as regents for the shoguns.
concise.britannica.com /ebc/article-9372195   (654 words)

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