Kawachi Genji
Kawachi Genji | |
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Parent house | Seiwa Genji |
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Founder | Minamoto no Yorinobu |
Final ruler | Minamoto no Sanetomo |
Founding year | 10th century |
Dissolution | 1219 |
Ruled until | 1219, Minamoto no Sanetomo assassinated |
Cadet branches |
The Kawachi Genji (
Lineage[edit]
Note: Each degree of indentation indicates a father-son relationship.
- Yorinobu (968–1048) – son of Minamoto no Mitsunaka
- Yoriyoshi (998–1082) – son of Yorinobu; hero of the Zenkunen War
- Yoshitsuna (died 1134) – son of Yoriyoshi
- Yoshimitsu (died 1127) – son of Yoriyoshi, ancestor of the Satake, Hiraga, and Takeda families
- Yoshiie (1041–1108) – son of Yoriyoshi, fought alongside his father in the Zenkunen War, led imperial forces in the Gosannen War
- Yoshichika
- Tameyoshi (1096–1156) – grandson of Yoshiie
- Yoshitomo (1123–1160), son of Tameyoshi
- Yoshihira (1140–1160), son of Yoshitomo
- Yoritomo (1147–1199), son of Yoshitomo, and first Kamakura shōgun
- Noriyori (1156–1193), son of Yoshitomo
- Yoshitsune (1159–1189), son of Yoshitomo, and one of the most famous samurai of all time
- Tametomo (1139–1170), son of Tameyoshi
- Yoshikata (?–1155), son of Tameyoshi
- Yoshinaka (1154–1184), son of Yoshikata
- Yukiie (d. 1186), son of Tameyoshi
- Yoshitomo (1123–1160), son of Tameyoshi
- Tameyoshi (1096–1156) – grandson of Yoshiie
- Yoshichika
- Yoriyoshi (998–1082) – son of Yorinobu; hero of the Zenkunen War
(*)= During 1219 as Shogunate Minamoto Sanetomo was last head of Minamoto clan of Japan after his nephew Minamoto Kugyo – son of Yoriie – killed his uncle Sanemoto then will commit suicide himself. Also other nephew Ichiman – who was Yoriie's son. In 1203? he was executed on Hōjō's orders.
References[edit]
- Sansom, George (1958). A History of Japan to 1334. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press.
- Turnbull, Stephen (1998). The Samurai Sourcebook. London: Cassell & Co.