yoritsuna

Updated: May 19, 2025

WITH the accession of the seventh Hojo regent, Sadatoki, the prosperous era of the Bakufu came to an end. Sadatoki himself seems to have been a man of much ability and fine impulses. He succeeded his father, Tokimune, at the age of fourteen, and during nine years he remained under the tutelage of the prime minister, Taira no Yoritsuna, thereafter taking the reins of government into his own hands.

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