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Kujō Yoritsune , also known as , was the fourth ''shōgun'' of the Kamakura shogunate of Japan. His father was '' kanpaku'' Kujō Michiie and his grandmother was a niece of Minamoto no Yoritomo. His wife was a granddaughter of Minamoto no Yoritomo and daughter ...

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was one of the five branches of the historically powerful Fujiwara clan of courtiers.

Family

* Father:

* Mother: Omiya no Kata * Wife: Hiwadahime (1230–1247)

Events of Yoritsugu shogunate

* 1244 (''

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2''): In the spring of this year, a number of extraordinary phenomena in the skies over Kamakura troubled Yoritsugu's father Yoritsune deeply.Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). * 1244 (''Kangen 2, 4th month''): Yoritsugu had his coming-of-age ceremonies at age 6. In the same month, his father asked Emperor Go-Saga for permission to give up his responsibilities as shogun in favor of Yoritsugu. * 1245 (''Kangen 3, 7th month''): Yoritsune shaved his head and became a Buddhist priest. * 1246 (''Kangen 4, 7th month''): Yoritsugu married the sister of

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. He was seven and she was sixteen. * September 1, 1256 (''

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1, 11th day of the 8th month''): Yoritsugu's father died at age 39.Titsingh, * October 14, 1256 (''Kōgen 1, 24th day of the 9th month''): Yoritsugu died at the age of 18 years.

Eras of Yoritsugu's shogunate

The years in which Yoritsugu was shogun are more specifically identified by more than one

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or ''

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''. * ''

'' (1243–1247) * '' Hōji'' (1247–1249) * ''

Kenchō was a after '' Hōji'' and before ''Kōgen.'' This period spanned the years from March 1249 to October 1256. The reigning emperor was . Change of era * 1249 : The new era name was created to mark an event or a number of events. The previous e ...

'' (1249–1257)

Notes

References

* Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric and Käthe Roth. (2005)
''Japan encyclopedia''.
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* Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). ''

Nihon Ōdai Ichiran , ', is a 17th-century chronicle of the serial reigns of Japanese emperors with brief notes about some of the noteworthy events or other happenings. According to the 1871 edition of the ''American Cyclopaedia'', the 1834 French translation of ...

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