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	Minamoto no 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.
		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.
	www.bookrags.com /Minamoto_no_Yoritomo (1794 words)

	Minamoto clan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		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.
		The most prominent of the several Minamoto families, the Seiwa Genji, descended from Minamoto no Tsunemoto (917–961), a grandson of the 56th Emperor Seiwa.
		During the Hōgen Disturbance (1160), the head of the Seiwa Genji clan, Minamoto no Yoshimoto, died in battle.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Minamoto (579 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.
		Yoshitomo was the heir of the Seiwa Genji branch of the Minamoto Clan, and Saneori was a daughter of the powerful Fujiwara regents.
	www.samurai-archives.com /mny.html (1836 words)

	Everything about Minamoto and Taira Clans (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		It was the Minamoto clan, the origin of the characteristically samuraist tradition of honorable suicide ('seppuku' in Japanese).
		Both clans rose when the civil service, backbone of a bureaucratic country, was almost totally dominated by the Fujiwara clan (this name means simply 'wisteria flowers of the swamp', and instantly corresponded visually with their crest -- if you have never ever seen a wisteria before, click here for pictures).
		The village of Ota, birthplace of the Oda CLAN
	uk.geocities.com /rainforestwind/minamoto.htm (3533 words)

	Minamoto no Yoritomo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		This was known as the Heiji Rebellion, or the 'Heiji Disturbance'.
		Yoritomo set himself up as the rightful heir of the Minamoto clan, and, with financial backing of the Hōjō, his wife's family, he set up a capital at Kamakura in the east.
		His uncle, Minamoto no Yukiie, and his cousin Minamoto no Yoshinaka conspired against him.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Minamoto_no_Yoritomo (1015 words)

	Minamoto Yoritomo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		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)

	Minamoto Yoritomo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		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 rulership--by courtiers and warriors, each with its sphere of authority and power.
	www.ninpo.org /picturearchive/historicalportraits/minamotoyoritomo.html (393 words)

	Minamoto no Yoshitsune - General of the Minamoto Clan of Japan
		Minamoto no Yoshitsune (1159-1189) was a late Heian and early Kamakura period general of the Minamoto clan of Japan.
		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.
		Yoshitsune shortly thereafter joined Yoshitomo 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.
	www.japan-101.com /history/minamoto_no_yoshitsune.htm (420 words)

	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.
		When Yoritomo died in 1199, his widow, from the clan of the Hojo, usurped power from the Minamoto clan.
		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.
	www.wsu.edu /~dee/FEUJAPAN/KAMAKURA.HTM (483 words)

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