Search results for "Minamoto clan" - New World Encyclopedia

Minamoto no Yoritomo (源 頼朝) (May 9, 1147 – February 9, 1199), was a Japanese warrior and clan leader who founded the bakufu, a system ...

Heike (平家) or Taira (平) or Heishi (平氏) is a Japanese clan name. Along with Minamoto, Taira was a hereditary clan name bestowed by the ...

the protection of warrior monks. The Minamoto clan reasserted their hegemony ... upon the remaining members of the Minamoto clan to overthrow the Taira ...

of local leaders and regents led by Minamoto no Yoritomo. Yoritomo’s ... However, after defeating the Taira clan in the Battle of Dannoura ...

Minamoto no Yoshitsune (源 義経) (1159 – June 15, 1189) was a general of the Minamoto clan of Japan in the late Heian period and early Kamakura ...

of the struggle between the Taira and Minamoto clans for control of Japan ... he attempts to assume leadership of the Minamoto clan, Minamoto no Yoritomo ...

exile, to take over leadership of the Minamoto clan and travel the country ... recognize Yoritomo as the head of the Minamoto clan and to send his young ...

Railway Line to Yokosuka, Kanagawa). Minamoto no Yoritomo established ... between two militaristic clans, the Minamoto (also known as Genji) and ...

Ieyasu. After the defeat of the Hojo clan in 1590, Hideyoshi was ruler ... in Owari province, the home of the Oda clan. He was born with no traceable ...

had been born into the Fujiwara family, a clan of powerful aristocrats. Jien ... made a national call to arms to the Minamoto clan all over Japan, to rebel ...

late as the Meiji era. A member of a poetic clan, Teika was born to the noted ... branch of the aristocratic and courtly clan, the Fujiwara family, in 1162 ...

combat and archery (kyudo, 弓道), these clan warriors were used by the ... of three noble families (the Fujiwara, Minamoto, or the Taira). Originally ...

read the Chinese characters for the real-life Minamoto clan, to which Genji belonged. For political reasons, Genji is relegated to commoner status and ...

His family owed allegiance to the Shinmen clan; Musashi later alluded to ... named Musashibō Benkei, who served under Minamoto no Yoshitsune and mastered ...

it was conquered by the Japanese Satsuma clan in 1609, serving as a middle ... the founder of the dynasty was a son of Minamoto no Tametomo, a Japanese ...

in a battle in 587, the leader of the Soga Clan, Soga no Umako, ordered the ... powerful warrior clans, the Taira and the Minamoto; five years later the Minamoto ...

bestowing titles, some hereditary, on clan chieftains. The Yamato rulers ... In 1185, following the defeat of the rival Taira clan (平氏), Minamoto ...