- Hojo family by Ethan Rivera
Family of hereditary regents to the shogunate of Japan who exercised actual power from 1199 to 1333. Hojo Tokimasa (1138–1215) joined the cause of Minamoto Yoritomo against Taira Kiyomori, then ruler of Japan. Together they prevailed, and Yoritomo became Japan's new ruler, taking the title of shogun. Tokimasa's daughter ...
- Minamoto Yoritomo by Mitchell May
... support for his cause in Hojo Tokimasa ( see Hojo family), and in 1185 he defeated the Taira. 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 established his own governors (shugo) and stewards ( jito) throughout Japan, thereby creating a governmental ...
- Jocho by Evelyn Gordon
... executed for Kyoto's Hojo Temple and for the Fujiwara family temple in Nara. He was instrumental in improving the social standing of Buddhist sculptors by organizing a guild, and he perfected the so-called kiyoseho, or joined-wood technique. His only extant work is a carved Amida (Buddha) figure ( C. 1053) in the Byodo Temple at Uji.
- genro by matthew king
... the official government structure continued the Japanese tradition of having actual authority wielded by forces other than the titular authority. See also. Fujiwara family; Hojo family; Ito Hirobumi; Yamagata Aritomo.
- Taira by Great Soviet Encyclopedia
... Minamoto, supported by the Hojo family, entered the last stage of the struggle and in 1185 decisively defeated the Taira in a sea battle at Dannoura. Authority over the country thereupon passed to Minamoto Yoritomo, who in 1192 founded a shogunate.