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Hōjō Maki. Hōjō Maki may refer to: Hōjō Maki (北条 牧, 牧の方), also Hōjō no Maki, wife of Hōjō Tokimasa, the first Shikken of Japan, and mother of Hōjō Masako the wife of Shōgun Minamoto no Yoritomo. Category: Human name disambiguation pages.
Ruled until. 1333. The Hōjō clan ( Japanese: 北条氏, Hepburn: Hōjō-shi) was a Japanese samurai family who controlled the hereditary title of shikken ( regent) of the Kamakura shogunate between 1203 and 1333. Despite the title, in practice the family wielded actual political power in Japan during this period compared to both the Kamakura ...
Coordinates: 35.0240°N 135.7974°E. Gate to Hōnen-in. Hōnen-in (法然院) is a Buddhist temple located in Sakyō-ku, Kyoto, western Japan. Honen-in is a single-estate temple located in Shikagaya, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto. It was originally part of the Jodo sect, but became independent and is now a single religious corporation.
The Later Hōjō clan ( Japanese: 後北条氏, Hepburn: Go-Hōjō-shi) was one of the most powerful samurai families in Japan in the Sengoku period and held domains primarily in the Kantō region. [ 1] Their last name was simply Hōjō (北条), but were called "Later Hōjō" to differentiate between the earlier Hōjō clan who had the same ...
Hōjō Tokimune (北条 時宗, 5 June 1251 – 20 April 1284) of the Hōjō clan was the eighth shikken (officially regent of the shōgun, but de facto ruler of Japan) of the Kamakura shogunate (reigned 1268–84), known for leading the Japanese forces against the invasion of the Mongols and for spreading Zen Buddhism. He was the second son of ...
Hōjō Tokimasa. Hōjō Tokimasa (北条 時政, 1138 – February 6, 1215) was a Japanese samurai lord who was the first shikken (regent) of the Kamakura shogunate and head of the Hōjō clan. [ 1][ 2] He was shikken from 1203 [ 3] until his abdication in 1205, and Protector of Kyoto from 1185 to 1186.
Battle of Numajiri (1567) Siege of Odawara (1569) Hōjō Ujiyasu (北条 氏康, 1515 – October 21, 1571) was a daimyō (warlord) and third head of the Odawara Hōjō clan. Known as the "Lion of Sagami", he was revered as a fearsome samurai and a cunning man. He is famous for his strategies of breaking the siege from Takeda Shingen and Uesugi ...
Hōjōki. Hōjōki (方丈記, literally "square- jō record"), variously translated as An Account of My Hut or The Ten Foot Square Hut, is an important and popular short work of the early Kamakura period (1185–1333) in Japan by Kamo no Chōmei. Written in March 1212, the work depicts the Buddhist concept of impermanence ( mujō) through the ...