Yoritomo's Hokkedō

Who holds it

Name

Hōjō Masako (as keeper of the memorial)

Title

Kept by Masako's household

Since

1199

Family

Masako, the widow.

Confidence

low

Recollection: Yoritomo's own Hokkedō stood on the hill behind the Ōkura mansion; his remains lay there after his death; the first anniversary is on Shōji 2/1/13 (about 30 January 1200).

Overlord

Masako

What it holds

• The hall and the services

How it was acquired

Yoritomo's private hall.

Allies and rivals

Masako and the household.

How things stand that morning

In daily service; the anniversary is ahead.

Wealth

Endowments; no figure.

What the year holds

What happened next, if nothing in play changes it. Each event carries what it depends on and what would stop it.

1. Shōji 2/1/13 (about 30 January 1200)The first anniversary of Yoritomo's death, with the housemen at the hall.Depends on: Peace in the household Stopped by: Mourning or a crisis in the household

Places of note

• Hokkedō: The hall on the hill behind the Ōkura mansion (approximate)

Where the sources disagree

• The hall's exact site is not pinned.

Evidence: Recollection only.

On the map: Point only.

Primary sources for Kamakura regime

Chronicles, registers, sagas and inscriptions written in or near 1200 that cover this entry. Each has its own page with editions, translations and where to read it.

• Hundred Times Refined Extracts: court annals (late thirteenth century, from court diaries). Short dated annals of the imperial court excerpted from courtiers' diaries, among them the Gyokuyo and the Meigetsuki. Read online
• Mirror of the East, Anonymous; compiled by officials of the Kamakura shogunate (compiled about 1300 from the shogunate's records, diaries and family documents). The Kamakura house's own chronicle, in daily entries. Read online
• Jottings of a Fool: an interpretative history of Japan, Jien (慈円) (about 1219 to 1220, revised to about 1223). A history by Kujo Kanezane's brother, head of the Tendai school and the leading churchman of the court, written to explain the fall of the Kujo and the rise of the warriors as the working of principle (dori). Read online
• Diary of the Inokuma Regent: the diary of Konoe Iezane, Konoe Iezane (近衛家実) (1197 to 1218, as a daily diary). The diary of the regent's heir, aged twenty-one in 1200 and already a senior courtier under his father Konoe Motomichi, who was regent (sessho) for the child emperor Tsuchimikado. Read online
• Leaves of Jade: the diary of Kujo Kanezane, Kujo (Fujiwara) Kanezane (九條兼實) (1164 to 1200, as a daily diary). The diary of the former regent, Yoritomo's ally at court, who had been driven from power in the Kenkyu purge of 1196 and lived in retirement in 1200. Read online
• Record of the Bright Moon: the diary of Fujiwara no Teika, Fujiwara no Teika (藤原定家) (1180 to 1235, as a daily diary, with gaps). The diary of the poet and courtier, then thirty-eight and a middle-ranking official of the Kujo house. Read online
• Surviving Documents of the Kamakura Period, Various; collected by Takeuchi Rizo (竹内理三) (documents of 1185 to 1333, collected and printed 1971 to 1997). The collected charters, deeds, court orders, shogunal directives, temple records and land registers of the Kamakura age, printed in date order. Read online
• The Tale of the Heike, Anonymous; traditionally attributed to Shinano no Zenji Yukinaga, performed and reshaped by blind reciters (early thirteenth century in its first form; the standard Kakuichi text was fixed in 1371). The epic of the Genpei war, in the form the reciters gave it over the century after 1200. Read online