Minamoto no Yoriie

Minamoto no Yoriie (源頼家, Minamoto no Yoriie^?) (September 11, 1182 – August 14, 1204) was the second shogun (1202 – 1203) of the Kamakura shogunate of Japan. Eldest son of the founder of the Kamakura shogunate Minamoto no Yoritomo, his mother was Hōjō Masako. Born at Hiki Yoshikazu's residence in Kamakura, he had as wet nurses, among others, the wives of Hiki himself and of Kajiwara Kagetoki.

After his father's death in 1199, Yoriie became head of the Minamoto clan and was appointed Seii Taishogun in 1202. By this time however, the power of the shogun and the shogunate had already fallen into the hands of his grandfather Hōjō Tokimasa. Yoriie in turn plotted to subjugate the Hōjō clan but failed, was put under house arrest, forced to abdicate and eventually assassinated on July 17, 1204 in Shuzenji (修善寺, Shuzenji^?) in Izu. Minamoto no Yoriie was succeeded by his younger brother Minamoto no Sanetomo as third shogun of the Kamakura shogunate.

The years in which Yoriie was shogun are encompassed within only one era name or nengō: Kennin (1201-1204)

References

• Yasuda, Motohisa (editor). Kamakura, Muromachi Jinmei Jiten (in Japanese). Tokyo: Shin Jinbutsu Ōraisha. ISBN 978-4-404-01757-4. OCLC 24654085. 

Further reading

• Titsingh, Isaac, ed. (1834). [Siyun-sai Rin-siyo, 1652], Nipon o daï itsi ran; ou, Annales des empereurs du Japon, tr. par M. Isaac Titsingh avec l'aide de plusieurs interprètes attachés au comptoir hollandais de Nangasaki; ouvrage re., complété et cor. sur l'original japonais-chinois, accompagné de notes et précédé d'un Aperçu d'histoire mythologique du Japon, par M. J. Klaproth. Paris: Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain and Ireland. --Two digitized examples of this rare book have now been made available online: (1) from the library of the University of Michigan, digitized January 30, 2007; and (2) from the library of Stanford University, digitized June 23, 2006. Click here to read the original text in French.

Preceded by Minamoto no Yoritomo

Kamakura Shogun: Minamoto no Yoriie 1202-1203

Succeeded by Minamoto no Sanetomo

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