Hojo Tokimasa ascendant at Kamakura

1199

After the death of Minamoto no Yoritomo the previous year, his father-in-law Hojo Tokimasa positioned himself as regent to the young heir Yoriie. Within a few years the Hojo family would come to dominate the shogunate they had helped establish, a situation that would last until 1333. The Hojo regency created a uniquely layered Japanese government in which a regent ruled on behalf of a shogun who ruled on behalf of an emperor.