yeritomo

Updated: May 13, 2025

The system of government established by Yeritomo towards the close of the twelfth century and kept in continuous operation thereafter until the middle of the nineteenth, was known as the Bakufu, a word literally signifying "camp office," and intended to convey the fact that the affairs of the empire were in the hands of the military.

F. (Frank) Brinkley - A History of the Japanese People : From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era