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... ) Charismatic half brother of Minamoto Yoritomo who helped bring him victory against the Taira family ( see Taira Kiyomori). He was raised in a monastery but ran away at 15 to join Yoritomo. On Yoritomo's orders, Yoshitsune seized Kyoto and then attacked and defeated the remaining Taira forces along Japan's Inland Sea. Yoritomo became jealous of Yoshitsune and ...

... in Japanese history: Minamoto Yoritomo established the Kamakura bakufu ( see Kamakura period) at the end of the 12th century, Ashikaga Takauji established the Muromachi bakufu ( see Muromachi period) in the early 14th century, and Tokugawa Ieyasu established the Edo bakufu ( see Tokugawa period) at the beginning of the 17th century. The Edo bakufu was the ...

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 married Yoritomo, and when Yoritomo died in 1199 Tokimasa ...

... ) enlisted the aid of the Minamoto warrior family to help in a rebellion against the reigning emperor Go-Shirakawa, Kiyomori supported Go-Shirakawa and defeated the Minamoto. The Minamoto staged a comeback in 1159–60, but Kiyomori defeated them again, executing all the Minamoto males except the children Minamoto Yoritomo and Minamoto Yoshitsune, who would later ...

... shogunate was established by Minamoto Yoritomo after his 1185 defeat of a rival warrior family, the Taira ( see Taira Kiyomori); its headquarters was in Kamakura. To assert his authority, Yoritomo had jito (stewards) assigned to all the estates ( shoen) in the land to collect taxes, and shugo (protectors) assigned to one or more provinces to lead them in times of ...