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	Minamoto no Yoritomo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Minamoto no Yoritomo was the third oldest 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.
		As for Yoritomo, the new head of the Minamoto, he was exiled to Hirugashima, an island in Izu province (on the Kanto Plain), which at that time was under the rule of the Hōjō clan.
		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.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Minamoto_Yoritomo (975 words)

	Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Minamoto no Yoritomo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		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.
		As for Yoritomo, the new head of the Mianmoto, he was exiled to Izu, in the Kanto Plain, which at that time was under the rule of the Hōjō clan.
		Yoritomo was granted the title of shogun (Sei-I-Tai-Shogun, i.e., "Barbarian-quelling Great General") in 1192, which was eventually passed to his oldest son Yoriie in 1202.
	www.hallencyclopedia.com /Minamoto_no_Yoritomo (954 words)

	Minamoto clan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Minamoto (源) was one of the honorary surnames bestowed by the Emperors of Japan of the Heian Period on those of their sons and grandsons who were not considered eligible for the throne.
		The Minamoto clan was also called the 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 (577 words)

	Shogun (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		In 1192 Yoritomo was awarded the title of Seii Taishogun by the emperor and the political system he developed with a succession of shogun at the head became known as a bakufu (tent government) or Shogunate.
		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 on their own right.
	bopedia.com /en/wikipedia/s/sh/shogun.html (835 words)

	b. Major Events. 2001. The Encyclopedia of World History
		Yoshitsune was killed on the orders of Yoritomo, who apparently was jealous of the fame the former had won as the brilliant general responsible for the greatest victories over the Taira.
		Yoritomo similarly disposed of other prominent members of the family, including his cousin Yoshinaka (1184), who as a warrior ranked next only to Yoshitsune; his uncle Yukiie (1186), who was one of the prime movers in the Minamoto uprising; and his brother Noriyori (1193), who was also one of the clan's great generals.
		Yoritomo was succeeded as the head of the Minamoto by his eldest son, Yoriie (1182–1204), who was not appointed shogun until 1202; instead his mother, Masako (1157–1225), ruled with the aid of a council headed by her father, H
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	BookRags: Minamoto Yoritomo Summary
		During the late 11th and the early 12th centuries, chieftains of the Minamoto and Taira increasingly came to participate in the politics of the court, and as the result of two armed conflicts in Kyoto, in 1156 and 1159, the Taira succeeded in supplanting the Fujiwara as the most powerful ministerial family in the land.
		Yoritomo was only 12 years old at the time of the 1159 conflict, in which the Taira decisively defeated the Minamoto, who were commanded by his father, Yoshitomo.
		Yoritomo's authority, which was restricted chiefly to the provinces of eastern Japan during the war with the Taira, was made national in scope in 1185, when he received permission from the throne to appoint his vassals as stewards to various private estates throughout the country and as constables or protectors in each province.
	www.bookrags.com /biography-minamoto-yoritomo (843 words)

	Persons of Ancient Japan
		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.
		Yoritomo now set up an independent government at Kamakura to control his samurai followers, which was duly recognized by the imperial court.
		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 Meiji Restoration of 1868.
	members.tripod.com /~muromachi1333/people.html (701 words)

	Minamoto no Yoritomo
		Minamoto no Yoritomo was the first Seii Taishôgun and while his personal dynasty would not last long the system of government and the way of life he founded would endure until the Meiji Restoration of 1868.
		Yoritomo was born a scion of one of the ancient houses.
		Yoritomo was forced to wander and eventually came upon Hojo Tokimasa, the lord of the Kanto Plains.
	www.samurai-archives.com /mny.html (1816 words)

	The Age of the Samurai - Minamoto no Yoritomo, Shogun 1192-1199
		Minamoto Yoritomo was born in 1147 and was almost immediately thrust into the rivalry between his family, the Minamoto, and the Taira after being exiled as a youth because of his role in a failed rebellion - called the Hoagie War - against their bitter opponents in 1160.
		Minamoto Yoritomo was not shogun for very long and died in 1199 after a riding accident.
		Problems continued after his death when his widow Masako plotted and schemed against the Minamoto as she was a daughter of the Hojo clan which was itself descended from the Taira.
	www.taots.co.uk /content/view/34/31 (625 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 Hojo 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 (310 words)

	Minamoto
		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.
		As custom, in order to ease imperial succession and end rivalries for the throne, princes not eligable or far removed from the throne were given a surname and became subjects of the emperor.
		The Seiwa Genji[?] line proved to be the most strong and dominant Minamoto line during the late Heian period with Minamoto no Yoritomo eventually forming the Kamakura Shogunate and becoming shogun in 1192.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/mi/Minamoto.html (227 words)

	Hachiman and Tsurugaoka Hachiman Shrine in Kamakura, Japan
		Hachiman is worshipped as the god of archery and war and later became the tutelary deity of the Minamoto Clan (esp. Minamoto Yoritomo, founder of the Kamakura shogunate).
		During the Kamakura Era, Tsurugaoka Hachimangu Shrine was a mixture of Shinto and Buddhism elements, highlighting the syncratic approach of Yoritomo Minamoto (1147-1199), the founder of the shrine, and his claim to the lineage of the Imperial Family.
		Minamoto no Yoshiie, upon coming of age at Iwashimuzu Shrine in Kyoto, took the name Hachiman Taro Yoshiie and through his military prowess and virtue as a leader, became regarded and respected as the ideal samurai through the ages.
	www.onmarkproductions.com /html/tsurugaoka-hachiman.shtml (982 words)

	Minamoto Yoritomo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Yoritomo was himself a member of the imperial class whose depredations were depriving the imperial government of power.
		Yoritomo was less a field general than a brilliant planner and co-ordinator; his younger brother and a cousin led his troops in the field most of the time.
		Upon their complete victory over the Taira in 1185, Yoritomo's forces were the only power in the country capable of bringing peace and orderly government.
	homepage.eircom.net /~yoritomo/minamoto_yoritomo.htm (192 words)

	Kamakura period
		The Imperial court gave recognition to the de facto rule of Minamoto Yoritomo by conferring on him the title shogun after he defeated the Taira family in 1185 decisively in the battle of Dan no Ura.
		The Minamoto came to be called "the claws of the Fujiwara" for their suppression of provincial and city rebellion.
		The Taira and the Minamoto each supported one of the rivals, and Taira Kiyomori (leader of the Taira) was able to prevail and place his candidate on the throne.
	f99.middlebury.edu /JA216A/kamakura.html (817 words)

	Report
		The eldest, Yoritomo, was placed in the custody of the Hojo family (a branch of the Taira that lived in the eastern province of Izu).
		Yoritomo then sent word to the central court that he had hopes that order could be restored to that of an earlier time, with the Genji serving the court as police officials in the east and the Taira being restored to their position as police officials in the west.
		Meanwhile, Yoritomo was negotiating with the In for the lands in the east.
	www.csuchico.edu /~cheinz/syllabi/asst001/spring99/shood/pages/index2.htm (2508 words)

	Japanese history: Kamakura Period
		In 1185, the Minamoto family took over the control over Japan after defeating the Taira clan in the Gempei war.
		Minamoto Yoritomo was appointed shogun in the year 1192 and established a new government, the Kamakura Bakufu.
		After Yoritomo's death in 1199, quarrels for supremacy started between the Bakufu of Kamakura and the Imperial court in Kyoto.
	www.japan-guide.com /e/e2133.html (570 words)

	Kamakura Period (1192-1333)
		Minamoto Yoritomo was born into the famous Minamoto military family where he received a court position at the age of twelve.
		Yoritomo’s brother led some of the forces, and Yoritomo became continually jealous of his brother’s success.
		Eventually his brother was forced to commit suicide and shortly after, Yoritomo appointed himself shogun, a position that he later passed on to his eldest son.
	www.indiana.edu /~ealc100/Group2/Pages/kamakura.htm (538 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Minamoto (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Yoritomo YORITOMO [Yoritomo] (Yoritomo Minamoto), 1148-99, Japanese warrior and dictator, founder of the Kamakura shogunate.
		After a prolonged struggle he led his clan, the Minamoto, to victory over the Taira in 1185.
		This aristocratic warrior class arose during the 12th-century wars between the Taira and Minamoto clans and was consolidated in the Tokugawa period.
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Minamoto (205 words)

	HighBeam Encyclopedia - Yoritomo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		YORITOMO [Yoritomo] (Yoritomo Minamoto), 1148-99, Japanese warrior and dictator, founder of the Kamakura shogunate.
		He became (1192) the first shogun, established his bakufu (headquarters) at Kamakura, and rewarded his retainers with estates strategically located throughout the country.
		Yoritomo's system of centralized feudalism set the pattern of military rule in Japan until the mid-19th cent.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/Y/Yoritomo.asp (292 words)

	Gempei War
		Yoritomo's Kanto domain is occasionally referred to as the Tôgaku, and rather then surge forward against the Taira, he contented himself for the time being with consolidating his hold locally.
		Somewhat earlier, Yoritomo's uncle Yukiie had taken the field and was to suffer defeat at the hands of Taira Tomomori at the Battle of Sunomata in Mino Province (March 1181).
		Yoritomo is said to have denied Yoshitsune court titles granted Noriyori and to have become angry when the court went ahead and approved them anyway.
	www.samurai-archives.com /Gempeiwar.html (3883 words)

	Japan Kamakura and Muromachi Periods
		Once Minamoto Yoritomo had consolidated his power, he established a new government at his family home in Kamakura.
		Yoritomo followed the Fujiwara form of house government and had an administrative board, a board of retainers, and a board of inquiry.
		As shogun, Yoritomo was both the steward and the constable general.
	www.country-studies.com /japan/kamakura-and-muromachi-periods.html (790 words)

	Japanese Swords, Swordsmaking, Swordsmanship & Swordsplay (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Minamoto Yoritomo ended this by shoguning himself in the way you are by now familiar with.
		Minamoto Yoritomo, the one who reconstructed the feudal sociopolitical classes for good, subjected his Japan to a series of unerasable changes.
		Minamoto got rid of the first 4 or 5 layers of robes commonly worn by noblepersons of the era, leaving just 2 (or 3 in winter), since no warrior could move like he should have been able to with all those clothes on.
	www.geocities.com /nobukaze23/katana.htm (1974 words)

	Minamoto Yoritomo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		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.
		Yoritomo, like a number of other Minamoto, used this edict to legitimize his call-to-arms against those associated with Taira no Kiyomori, or those who opposed Yoritomo.
		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.
	www.ninpo.org /picturearchive/historicalportraits/minamotoyoritomo.html (393 words)

	history
		The Minamoto clan was almost completely defeated in 1159, and all its family members were either killed or forced to take their own lives except for a few.
		One of the few was Yoritomo {yoh-re-toh-moh} Minamoto (1147-1199), the most notable samurai warrior as the founder of the Kamakura Shogunate and the military dictator of Japan.
		Yoritomo even killed this 10-year-old, innocent boy as soon as he knew he was betrayed by Yoshinaka over a trifling matter.
	www.asahi-net.or.jp /~QM9T-KNDU/history.htm (3773 words)

	Anne P. Sharp: Battle of Dan-no-ura
		The Taira controlled the west and the imperial court while the Minamoto were dominant in the east.
		In 1156, the Minamoto declared a revolt against the Taira which was soon crushed.
		The leader of the Minamoto clan was Yoritomo.
	www.annesharp.com /BattleofDannoura.html (404 words)

	The Ubiquitous Vending Machine (Two Minute Japan, a part of the UCLA Teaching about Japan website)
		That year the emperor legitimized the Minamoto rule when he bestowed on Yoritomo, the leader, the title "barbarian-quelling generalissimo" (J. sei-i-tai-shôgun), a title from the 800s that was given to the military leader sent to do battle with the indigenous Ainu people.
		Yoritomo's government was staffed by members of the Minamoto and Hôjô clans.
		Consequently, Minamoto Yoritomo is known as Yoritomo and Ashikaga Takauji and Tokugawa Ieyasu are commonly referred to as Takauji and Ieyasu respectively.
	www.isop.ucla.edu /eas/japan/medieval/overview.htm (1935 words)

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