The tradition is said to have been started more than 800 years ago by the samurai Minamoto no Yoritomo, who established the first shogunate in Kamakura, Kanagawa Prefecture. It has continued to ...

The rebellion, known as the Jokyu Incident, was led by Retired Emperor Go-Toba against Hojo Yoshitoki, the regent of the Kamakura Shogunate, in 1221, the third year of Jokyu. Go-Toba’s forces ...

“Azuma Kagami” (literally, “Mirror of the East”), a medieval Japanese text that chronicles the events of the Kamakura Shogunate (1192-1333), contains a scene where a young Hojo Masako ...