Hōjō Tokimasa (北条時政, 1138–1215) was the first shikken (執権), or regent, of the Kamakura shogunate, which governed Japan from 1192 until 1333. Originally a provincial government official in Izu Province (伊豆国), located in what is now Shizuoka Prefecture, Tokimasa played a pivotal role in the rise of the Kamakura bakufu as the dominant military government of his time. His political ascent began when he took in the young Minamoto no Yoritomo (源頼朝, 1147–1199), exiled to Izu following the...
Hōjō Tokimasa (1138-1215)