The Kamakura shogunate.

Calliope | January 1, 2006| | Copyright

The regime that Minamoto Yoritomo established--the Kamakura shogunate (or Kamakura bakufu)--was a judicial and policing authority. Both part of and distinct from the imperial court in Kyoto, it acted as a police agency for the court. It also exercised broad governing powers in eastern Japan. And, it held special authority over the Warriors, scattered countrywide, who were appointed to the office of jito, or land steward, and recognized as gokenin, or honorable housemen.

The eastern warriors who answered Yoritomo's call to arms in 1180 came to him because they were ...

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