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	Minamoto clan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Minamoto (源) was an honorary surname bestowed by the Emperors of Japan of the Heian Period to their sons and grandsons after accepting them as royal subjects.
		Minamoto was also called Genji, using the alternate pronunciation of the Chinese characters for Minamoto (gen) and uji, or family (ji).
		The Minamoto were one of the four great clans that dominated Japanese politics during the Heian period (794-1185) - the other three were the Fujiwara, the Taira, and the Tachibana.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Minamoto (611 words)

	Minamoto no Yoritomo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Minamoto no Yoritomo (May 9, 1147 - February 9, 1199) was the founder and the first shogun of the Kamakura dynasty of Japan, who ruled from 1192 until 1199.
		Minamoto no Yoritomo was the eldest son of Minamoto no Yoshitomo, the heir of the Minamoto (Seiwa Genji) clan, and his official wife, Fujiwara no Saneori, who was a member of the illustrious Fujiwara clan.
		Meanwhile, Minamoto no Yoshitomo fled the capital just as the Taira marched in in 1160, but was betrayed and executed by a retainer in Owari.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Minamoto_no_Yoritomo (964 words)

	Minamoto no Yoshinaka - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Minamoto no Yoshinaka (Japanese: 源義仲, 1154-1184) was a general and last shogun of the late Heian Period of Japanese history.
		A member of the Minamoto samurai clan, Minamoto no Yoritomo was his cousin and rival during the Genpei War between the Minamoto and the Taira clans.
		Minamoto no Yoshinaka is one of many main characters in the Kamakura period epic, the Tale of Heike.
	www.butte-silverbow.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Minamoto_no_Yoshinaka (542 words)

	Minamoto no Yoritomo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Minamoto no Yoritomo 源頼朝 (May 9 1147 - February 9, 1199) was the founder and first shogun of the Kamakura Shogunate of Japan, from 1192 to 1199.
		Son of Minamoto no Yoshitomo, Yoritomo was banished by Taira no Kiyomori to of Izu province (present day Shizuoka prefecture) after the Heiji Rebellion in 1159.
		Yoritomo was defeated at Ishibashiyama in his first major battle, but in the end he triumphed over his rival cousins, who sought to steal from him control of the clan, and over the Taira, who suffered a terrible defeat at the Battle of Dan-no-ura in 1185.
	www.sevenhills.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Minamoto_Yoritomo (367 words)

	Minamoto no Yoshitomo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Minamoto no Yoshitomo (源義朝) (1123-1160) was the head of the Minamoto clan and a general of the late Heian period of Japanese history.
		With the outbreak of the Hogen Rebellion in 1156, the members of the Minamoto and Taira samurai clans were beckoned into the conflict.
		Yoshitomo, defeating his father and the forces of Sutoku and Yorinaga, became head of the Minamoto and established himself as a political power in the capital of Kyoto.
	www.encyclopedia-online.info /Minamoto_no_Yoshitomo (353 words)

	Minamoto no Yoritomo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Minamoto no Yoritomo 源頼朝 (1147 - 1199) was the founder and first shogun of the Kamakura Shogunate.
		Son of Minamoto no Yoshitomo, Yoritomo was banished by Taira no Kiyomori to Hirogakojima of Izu province (present day Shizuoka prefecture) after the Heiji Rebellion in 1159.
		In 1180, Prince Mochihito appealled to the Minamoto family throughout Japan to rise up against Taira no Kiyomori and the Taira family that had usurped the power of the emperor.
	www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-Minamoto_no_Yoritomo.html (264 words)

	Minamoto
		After the death of the first shogun, Minamoto Yoritomo (1147–1199), the real power was exercised by the regent for the shogun;; throughout the Kamakura period (1192–1333), the regents were of the Hōjō family, a branch of the Taira.
		Minamoto Yoriyoshi (988–1075) was a warlord who built up a power base in the Kanto region when appointed by the court to put down a rebellion there.
		During the 11th and 12th centuries the Minamoto and the Taira were rivals for power at the court and in the country.
	www.tiscali.co.uk /reference/encyclopaedia/hutchinson/m0033776.html (214 words)

	Minamoto no Yoriie - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Minamoto no Yoriie 源頼家 (September 11, 1182 – August 14, 1204) was the second shogun (1202 – 1203) of the Kamakura shogunate of Japan.
		After his father's death in 1199, Yoriie became head of the Minamoto clan and was appointed Seii Taishogun in 1202.
		Minamoto no Yoriie was succeeded by his younger brother Minamoto no Sanetomo as third shogun of the Kamakura shogunate.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Minamoto_no_Yoriie (158 words)

	Minamoto no Yoshitsune - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Minamoto no Yoshitsune (源義経) (1159 - May 17, 1189) was a general of the Minamoto clan of Japan in the late Heian and early Kamakura period.
		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 which had usurped the power of the emperor.
		Yoshitsune shortly thereafter joined Yoritomo along with Minamoto no Noriyori, all brothers that had never before met, in the last of three conflicts between the rival Minamoto and Taira samurai clans in the Gempei War.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Minamoto_no_Yoshitsune (454 words)

	Minamoto No Yoshitsune (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Minamoto no Yoshitsune (源義経) (1159-1189) was a late Heian and early Kamakura period general of the Minamoto clan of Japan.
		Yoshitsune was the ninth son of Minamoto no Yoshitomo and his older brother Minamoto no Yoritomo founded the Kamakura shogunate.
		In 1180, Yoshitsune heard that Yoshitomo, now head of the Minamoto clan, had raised an army at the request of Prince Mochihito to fight against the Taira clan which had usurped the power of the emperor.
	www.wikiverse.org /minamoto-no-yoshitsune (341 words)

	Encyclopedia: Gempei War (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Genpei or Gempei War (源平戦争)(1180-1185) was a war of ancient Japan, fought between the Taira and Minamoto clans.
		The Genpei War resulted in the fall of the Taira clan and establishment of Minamoto Yoritomo as shogun of Japan in 1192.
		In the Hogen Rebellion and Heiji Rebellion of earlier decades, the Minamoto attempted to regain control from the Taira, and failed.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Gempei-War (554 words)

	Minamoto no Yoshitomo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Minamoto no Yoshitomo (源義朝) (1123 - 1160) was the head of the Minamoto clan and a general of the late Heian period of Japanese history.
		His son Minamoto no Yoritomo became shogun and founded the Kamakura Shogunate, thefirst shogunate in the history of Japan.
		Yoshitomo, defeating his father and the forces of Sutoku and Yorinaga, became head of the Minamoto and established himself asa political power in the capital of Kyoto.
	www.therfcc.org /minamoto-no-yoshitomo-231784.html (327 words)

	Minamoto Yoshiie
		Minamoto Yoshiie, a man who came to embody the spirit of the samurai and a legend even in his own time, was the son of Minamoto Yoriyoshi (995-1082).
		In a snowstorm, the Minamoto assaulted Sadato’s stronghold at Kawasaki and were driven back; in the course of the hard-fought retreat Yoshiie distinguished himself and earned the nickname ‘Hachimantaro’, or ‘First son (or First born) of the God of War (Hachiman)’.
		The legend of Minamoto Yoshiie, who emerged from his northern wars and the chronicles as a cultured man of war, established a model for future samurai that would influence generations of warriors to come.
	www.samurai-archives.com /yoshiie.html (864 words)

	Minamoto Yoritomo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		At the end of that year, the Minamoto lost the Hoagie War to the Taira forces, and young Yoritomo was sent to exile in Izu in the Kanto.
		It was only in 1183 that Yoritomo sent his brother Yoshitsune and Minamoto Yoshinaka to destroy the Taira in the Western Provinces (saigoku)--and even that was the result of Taira assaults on him, not a pre planned strategy.
		This was the beginning of a new chapter in Japanese history, dominated by a dual structure of rule--by courtiers and warriors, each with its sphere of authority and power.
	homepage.eircom.net /~yoritomo/minamoto_yoritomo2.htm (370 words)

	Minamoto Yoshitsune
		Few samurai loom as largely in Japanese history and lore as Minamoto Yoshitsune, the brilliant general whose tactics won a string of victories for his brother Yoritomo that culminated in the demise of the Taira clan.
		While Mochihito would be killed in June and Minamoto Yorimasa crushed at the Battle of the Uji, a fire had been set and in September Yoritomo raised an army in the Kanto.
		Unfortunately, the two were attacked by Minamoto clansmen loyal to Yoritomo in Settsu and ultimately forced to give up their plans to escape to the western provinces.
	www.samurai-archives.com /yoshitsune.html (2786 words)

	Minamoto No Yoshinaka (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Minamoto no Yoshinaka (源義仲, 1154-1184) was a general and last shogun of the late Heian Period of Japanese history.
		Born in Musashi province, Yoshinaka's father Minamoto no Yoshikata was killed and his domain was seized by Minamoto no Yoshihira in an interfamily feud while he was still an infant.
		The Edo period poet Matsuo Basho, persuant to his last wishes, was buried next to Minamoto no Yoshinaka in Gichu Temple.
	www.wikiverse.org /minamoto-no-yoshinaka (474 words)

	Genji History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Genji were part of the Minamoto family, the time period is around the Gempei war that lasted from 1180-1185.
		The war was faught between the Minamoto and the Taira clans with many other allied families joining in.
		The Minamoto were victorious but a month of battles took place in and around the capital until the Taira re-took the castle.
	members.aol.com /arashisan/history.htm (328 words)

	Japan, 1000-1400 A.D. \| Timeline of Art History \| The Metropolitan Museum of Art (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Ironically, the Minamoto shoguns suffer a fate similar to that of the
		Eventually the Minamoto are supplanted by another military dynasty, the Ashikaga, who establish their base in Kyoto in 1336.
		The Taira succeed in defeating the Minamoto and supplant the Fujiwara family as the dominant power at court.
	www.metmuseum.org /toah/ht/07/eaj/ht07eaj.htm (1300 words)

	Minamoto no Sanetomo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		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.
		Shortly thereafter in 1203, Sanetomo became head of the Minamoto clan and was appointed Seii Taishogun.
		Minamoto no Sanetomo was succeeded by Kujo Yoritsune as fourth shogun of the Kamakura shogunate.
	minamoto-no-sanetomo.area51.ipupdater.com (355 words)

	Minamoto no Yoritomo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Cloistered Emperor Sutoku was placed under house arrest, while Fujiwara no Yorinaga was executed.
		Even Minamoto no Tameyoshi, Yoshitomo's father, was executed as well, even after numerous pleas from Yoshitomo.
		Yoritomo's half brother, Minamoto no Noriyori, was also exiled, while Minamoto no Yoshitsune, another half-brother, was forced to enter a monastery.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Minamoto_no_Yoritomo (964 words)

	Minamoto Yoritomo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Born into the Minamoto family, a powerful military clan of imperial descent, Yoritomo was exiled as a youth after an abortive rebellion in 1160 against the rival Taira family in which his father died.
		In 1185 Minamoto forces under Yoshitsune smashed the Taira in the naval battle of Dannoura.
		The Minamoto clan held power only until 1219, when the line died out and was replaced by the Hojo, but Yoritomo's shogunate set the pattern for governmental structure in Japan until the
	www.compsoc.net /~gemini/simons/historyweb/minamoto-yoritomo.html (261 words)

	Giappone: Tutte le informazioni su Giappone su Encyclopedia.it (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		La scarsità delle strade e le loro pietose condizioni (i ponti mancheranno quasi completamente fino all'incontro con il mondo occidentale), resero però il potere centrale incapace di una efficace politica per cui quando il prestigio di chi era al trono venne a diminuire, subito la grande nobiltà riprese forza.
		Nel XII secolo iniziò un'altro periodo di lotte intestine tra le potenti famiglie dei Taira e dei Minamoto.
		Con Kiyomori (1118-1121) i Taira ebbero il sopravvento e iniziarono una violenta opera di repressione che preparò il cammino alla rivincita dei Minamoto.
	www.encyclopedia.it /g/gi/giappone.html (4365 words)

	Minamoto Yoritomo Biography / Biography of Minamoto Yoritomo Biography Biography
		The Japanese warrior chieftain Minamoto Yoritomo (1147-1199) founded Japan's first military government, or shogunate, in 1185 and thereby inaugurated the medieval period of Japanese history, which lasted until 1573.
		In the 12th century, Japan was still ruled by the government of the imperial court in Kyoto and in particular by the courtier family of Fujiwara, which held the office of imperial regent and many other high ministerial positions at court.
		By the 12th century, this emergent warrior class was dominated by two great clans, the Minamoto and the Taira, both of which traced their descent from the.....
	www.bookrags.com /biography-minamoto-yoritomo (238 words)

	Articles - Shogun (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Minamoto no Yoshinaka was named Seii Taishogun during the Genpei War only to be killed shortly thereafter by his distant cousin Minamoto no Yoshitsune, brother of Minamoto no Yoritomo.
		From this point in history, all shogun that headed shogunates were by tradition descendants of the Minamoto princes, the sons of Emperor Seiwa, and the title passed generation to generation to the eldest sons.
		In Japanese history, besides Minamoto no Yoritomo whose Kamakura shogunate lasted for approximately 150 years, from 1192 to 1333, only Ashikaga Takauji and Tokugawa Ieyasu, each being descendants of the Minamoto princes, were awarded the title of Seii Taishogun and established bakufu in their own right.
	www.gaple.com /articles/Bakufu?mySession=1dea33262f32e9bc4581b83a97e3376a (817 words)

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