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Minamoto no Yoritomo

1147 - 1199

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Minamoto no Yoritomo (源 頼朝, May 9, 1147 – February 9, 1199) was the founder and the first shogun of the Kamakura shogunate, ruling from 1192 until 1199, also the first ruling shogun in the history of Japan. He was the husband of Hōjō Masako who acted as regent (shikken) after his death. Yoritomo was the son of Minamoto no Yoshitomo and belonged to Seiwa Genji's prestigious Kawachi Genji family. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Minamoto no Yoritomo has received more than 1,056,798 page views. His biography is available in 49 different languages on Wikipedia. Minamoto no Yoritomo is the 1,187th most popular politician (up from 1,516th in 2019), the 46th most popular biography from Japan (up from 57th in 2019) and the 13th most popular Japanese Politician.

Minamoto no Yoritomo is most famous for founding the Kamakura shogunate in 1185.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Minamoto no Yoritomo ranks 1,187 out of 19,576. Before him are Michel Aoun, Jiaqing Emperor, Ladislaus I of Hungary, Theodor Heuss, Artaxerxes III, and Mahmud of Ghazni. After him are Emomali Rahmon, Julius Streicher, Kwame Nkrumah, Astyages, Marwan II, and Frederick I of Denmark.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1147, Minamoto no Yoritomo ranks 1. After him are Stephen III of Hungary, Emperor Guangzong of Song, Ibn Qudamah, Haakon II of Norway, Taira no Munemori, and Otto II, Margrave of Brandenburg. Among people deceased in 1199, Minamoto no Yoritomo ranks 2. Before him is Richard I of England. After him are Stefan Nemanja, Abu Yusuf Yaqub al-Mansur, Joan of England, Queen of Sicily, Khaqani, Geng Ding, Michael the Syrian, Raymond IV, Count of Tripoli, and Benedicta Hvide.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Minamoto no Yoritomo ranks 46 out of 6,245. Before him are Hiroshige (1797), Gichin Funakoshi (1868), Hiroo Onoda (1922), Morihei Ueshiba (1883), Takeda Shingen (1521), and Takeshi Kitano (1947). After him are Minamoto no Yoshitsune (1159), Yoshinori Ohsumi (1945), Soichiro Honda (1906), Olivia de Havilland (1916), Chūichi Nagumo (1887), and Emperor Ninkō (1800).

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Among POLITICIANS In Japan

Among politicians born in Japan, Minamoto no Yoritomo ranks 13. Before him are Sasaki Kojirō (1583), Lee Myung-bak (1941), Itō Hirobumi (1841), Emperor Kōmei (1831), Richard von Coudenhove-Kalergi (1894), and Takeda Shingen (1521). After him are Emperor Ninkō (1800), Emperor Kōkaku (1771), Koxinga (1624), Emperor Suizei (-669), Fumio Kishida (1957), and Uesugi Kenshin (1530).

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