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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 and of Japan, 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 950,517 page views. His biography is available in 49 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 48 in 2019). Minamoto no Yoritomo is the 1,520th most popular politician (down from 1,311th in 2019), the 57th most popular biography from Japan (down from 50th in 2019) and the 15th 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 1,520 out of 15,577. Before him are Hippias, Jiang Ziya, Ferdinand I of Aragon, Philip V of Macedon, John II of Castile, and Mengistu Haile Mariam. After him are Ferdinand I of León, Theuderic I, Abaqa Khan, Ioannis Metaxas, Raisa Gorbacheva, and Theresa May.

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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, Haakon II of Norway, 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, Khaqani, Joan of England, Queen of Sicily, Geng Ding, Michael the Syrian, and Raymond IV, Count of Tripoli.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Minamoto no Yoritomo ranks 57 out of 6,048. Before him are Isao Takahata (1935), Soichiro Honda (1906), Minamoto no Yoshitsune (1159), Joan Fontaine (1917), Yasujirō Ozu (1903), and Empress Michiko (1934). After him are Akechi Mitsuhide (1526), Yoshihide Suga (1948), Shinzō Abe (1954), Tadamichi Kuribayashi (1891), Emperor Suizei (-669), and Koxinga (1624).

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Among POLITICIANS In Japan

Among politicians born in Japan, Minamoto no Yoritomo ranks 15. Before him are Emperor Kōmei (1831), Richard von Coudenhove-Kalergi (1894), Emperor Ninkō (1800), Emperor Kōkaku (1771), Itō Hirobumi (1841), and Takeda Shingen (1521). After him are Yoshihide Suga (1948), Shinzō Abe (1954), Emperor Suizei (-669), Koxinga (1624), Uesugi Kenshin (1530), and Fumio Kishida (1957).

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