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Kujō Yoritsune

Type Figure Region Japan Time 1219–1256 Also known as Kujō Yoritsune、九条頼経、Fujiwara no Yoritsune

Kujō Yoritsune (1219–1256), fourth shogun of the Kamakura shogunate, appointed as a child in 1226;…

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  1. 1226–1231Kamakura · KamakuraAfter the Jōkyū War, the court and shogunate appointed Kujō Yoritsune as fourth shogun in 1226 to restore order. Aged only eight, he was assisted by Hōjō Yasutoki and the Kyoto shugo deputy, receiving warrior education and performing ceremonial duties in Kamakura.
  2. 1231–1244Kamakura · KamakuraFrom the 1230s to the early 1240s Yoritsune remained shogun while Hōjō Yasutoki (1224–1242) and then Hōjō Tokiyori served as regents. The shogunate handled Jōkyū aftermath and adjusted the shugo–jitō system, with Yoritsune as a court-born shogun linking court and warriors.
  3. 1244–1256Kyoto · KyotoHe resigned the shogunate in 1244 and took monastic vows in 1252. He spent his later years in Kyoto and died in 1256. His shogunate spanned post-Jōkyū political reconstruction and consolidation of Hōjō regency rule; he was a central symbolic figure of that transition in the 1230s.

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