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Minamoto no Yoritomo

Japanese Samurai, Daimyo and Military ruler of Japan from 1192 to 1199

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Source revisionAug 10, 2026
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Minamoto no Yoritomo was a samurai, daimyo and the founder and the first shogun of the Kamakura shogunate, ruling from 1192 until 1199, also the first shogun in the history of Japan to hold de-facto power over Japan. He was married to Hōjō Masako, who acted as regent (shikken) after his death.

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“Minamoto no Yoritomo” enters the record as japanese Samurai, Daimyo and Military ruler of Japan from 1192 to 1199. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Minamoto, Yoritomo and Japanese can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from “Minamoto no Yoritomo” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.