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  Minamoto no Noriyori - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Grave of Minamoto no Noriyori, Shuzenji (present-day Izu), Shizuoka Prefecture
Noriyori helped defeat the wayward Minamoto no Yoshinaka at the Second Battle of the Uji and the Awazu, before moving on to play a central role in the Battle of Ichi-no-Tani.
Noriyori was sent out once more in October of 1184, to secure the provinces of the Chugoku region, and then to move on into Kyushu.
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 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.
Yoshitsune was the ninth son of Minamoto no Yoshitomo.
Yoshitsune defeated and killed his rival cousin Minamoto no Yoshinaka at the battle of Awazu in Omi Province in the first month of 1184 and in the next month defeated the Taira at the Battle of Ichi-no-Tani in present day Kobe.
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 Minamoto no Yoshinaka: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com - All about Minamoto no Yoshinaka
Minamoto no Yoshinaka 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[?].
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 Minamoto no Yoshitomo: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com - All about Minamoto no Yoshitomo
Minamoto no Yoshitomo (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, the first shogunate in the history of Japan.
Yoshitomo sided along with Taira no Kiyomori in support of the Emperor Go-Shirakawa and Fujiwara no Tadamichi[?], while his father Minamoto no Tameyoshi[?], then head of the Minamoto clan, sided with the retired Emperor Sutoku and Fujiwara no Yorinaga[?].
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 Taira no Kiyomori
Taira no Kiyomori (平 清盛 1118 - 1181) was a general of the late Heian period of Japan.
In 1156, he and Minamoto no Yoshitomo, head of the Minamoto clan, suppressed the Hogen Rebellion.
Taira no Kiyomori is also the main character in the Kamakura period[?] epic, the Tale of Heike[?].
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 Minamoto no Yoshitsune: bio and encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Minamoto no Yoshitsune (源 義経;) (1159 - May_17,1189) was a late Heian (Heian: the heian period () is the last division of classical japanese...
Yoshitsune was the ninth son of Minamoto no Yoshitomo (Minamoto no Yoshitomo: minamoto no yoshitomo () (1123 - february 11, 1160)...
Yoshitsune defeated and killed his rival cousin Minamoto no Yoshinaka (Minamoto no Yoshinaka: minamoto no yoshinaka (japanese:, 1154-1184) was a general...
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 Taira no Kiyomori: biography and encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Taira no Kiyomori (平 清盛 1118 - 1181) was a general of the late Heian period (Heian period: the heian period () is the last division of classical japanese...
This established the Taira and Minamoto samurai clans as the top political powers in Kyoto (Kyoto: A city in central Japan on southern Honshu; a famous cultural center that was once the capital of Japan).
Taira no Kiyomori is also the main character in the Kamakura period (Kamakura period: the kamakura period 1185 to 1333 is a period of japanese history that marks the governance...
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 Battle of Dan-no-ura   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
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 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.
The Kammu Heishi line, founded in 889 by Taira no Takamochi (a great-grandson of the 50th tenno Kammu, reigned 781-806), proved to be the most strong and dominant line during the late Heian period with Taira no Kiyomori eventually forming the first samurai dominated government in the history of Japan.
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 Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Minamoto no Yoshitsune
Minamoto no Yoshitsune (源 義経;) (1159 - May_17,1189) 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.
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.
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 Minamoto Noriyori
Minamoto Yoshitomo’s fourth son, Noriyori was spared by Taira Kiyomori in 1160 along with Yoritomo and Yoshitsune after the murder of their father.
Noriyori was assigned the rather unenviable mission of striking westward by land, securing the provinces of the Chugoku Region, and then invading Kyushu.
In fact, Noriyori was by no means the leader his brother was but there is little evidence to support the notion that he was a military bungler.
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 Minamoto no Yoshinaka   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
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 killed and his domain was seized by no Yoshihira in an interfamily feud while was still an infant.
Minamoto no Yoshinaka is one of main characters in the Kamakura period epic the Tale of Heike.
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 Encyclopedia entries starting with MIN   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Minamoto no Yoriie 源頼家 (September 11, 1182–August 14, 1204) was the second shogun (1202–1203) of the Kamakura shogunate of Japan.
Minamoto no Yorimasa (源頼政)(1106-1180) was the leader of the Minamoto armies at the beginning of the Genpei War.
Minamoto no Yoshinaka (Ja: 源義仲, 1154-1184) was a general and last shogun of the late Heian Period of Japanese history.
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 Minamoto no Yoshitsune - TheBestLinks.com - Japan, 1189, 1180, 1159, ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
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.
Yoshitsune defeated and killed his rival cousin Minamoto no Yoshinaka at Awazu in Omi province in the first month of 1184 and in the next month defeated the Taira at the Battle of Ichi no Tani in present day Kobe.
Fleeing to the temporary protection of Fujiwara no Hidehira in Mutsu again, Yoshitomo was betrayed and killed by Hidehira's son Fujiwara no Yasuhira.
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 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.
Minamoto no Yoritomo was born in 1147, the third son of Minamoto no Yoshitomo and Fujiwara no Saneori, in the capital of
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 b. Major Events. 2001. The Encyclopedia of World History
Minamoto no Yoritomo, as the effective military dictator, organized the new bakufu with the aid of Kyoto scholars like
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 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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 Hojo Yoshitoki   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
At that time, the Taira, under Taira no Kiyomori, had consolidated their power in Kyoto, the capital, and expelled the Minamoto clan, their rival.
Minamoto no Yoshitomo, the head of the clan, was executed, while his sons who were not executed were exiled or ordered into monasteries.
Minamoto no Yoritomo, Yoshitomo's heir, was exiled to Izu, which was where the Hōjō domains were.
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 Minamoto no Yoshitomo   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Minamoto no Yoshitomo (源 義朝;) (1123 - 1160) was the head of the Minamoto clan and a general of the Heian period of Japanese history.
Yoshitomo was angry that the Taira became the favorite of the imperial court the Hogen Rebellion despite the sacrifice of Minamoto.
His remaining sons Yoritomo along Minamoto no Yoshitsune and Minamoto no Noriyori were later and exiled by Kiyomori.
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 Genpei War - Indopedia, the Indological knowledgebase
Genpei War resulted in the fall of the Taira clan and establisment 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.
Finally, in 1180, the Genpei Wars themselves began, as Minamoto no Yorimasa supported a different claimaint for the Imperial throne than the Taira nominee.
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 Battle of Awazu   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
His policy allowed Taira no Kiyomori to seize power, and at the end of his life he allowed Minamoto no Yoritomo to establish the Kamakura Shogunate in Kamakura, in the province of Sagami, modern-day Kanagawa.
After internal struggles within the Minamoto clan, Minamoto no Yoshitsune, a brother of Yoritomo finally destroyed the Taira clan entirely in 1185 at the battle of Dan no Ura.
His cousin Minamoto no Yoritomo was prompted to crush Yoshinaka, and sent his brothers Minamoto no Yoshitsune and Minamoto no Noriyori to kill him.
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 Notes for Tale of Heike, Chapter 9
Minamoto no Yoritomo, who is still based in the east but is the rightful heir to the Minamoto clan.
Kanehira, Imai no Shirô Kanehira, a "foster brother" in the sense that he is the son of Yoshinaka's wet-nurse; a wet-nurse had a very close and important connection to the children she cared for.
Taira no Atsumori (1169–1184), the youngest son of Tsunemori (a brother to Kiyomori), and known as a flautist.
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 Minamoto no Yoshinaka
However, having been shamed, Yoshinaka was now determined to beat Yoritomo to Kyoto, defeat the Taira on his own, and take control of the Minamoto for himself.
He was buried in Otsu, Omi, and a temple was built his honor, and named Gichu Temple after him, during the later Muromachi period.
The Edo period poet Matsuo Basho, persuant to his last wishes, was buried next to Minamoto no Yoshinaka in Gichu Temple.
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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.
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 Ms. Brittenham- 7th Grade Social Studies TeacherWeb Gempei War   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
His great error, we are told, had been to spare the sons of Minamoto Yoshitomo in the wake of the Heiji disturbance, allowing these three boys - Yoritomo, Noriyori, and Yoshitsune - to mature and form the leadership of a new and dangerous threat.
Ichi no tani was screened by a number of outposts that included Mikusuyama to the north and Ikuta no mori to the west.
There would be no further avenues of retreat should the coming battle go against them, and their earlier defeats no doubt sat havily on their shoulders.
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