Minamoto no Yoritomo’s Family Tree

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Family

• Minamoto no Yoshitomo(parent),Minamoto no Yoshitsune(sibling)

  Minamoto no Yoshitomo fathered both Minamoto no Yoritomo and Minamoto no Yoshitsune by different mothers. After Yoshitomo's assassination following the Heiji Rebellion, his surviving sons were scattered into exile — Minamoto no Yoritomo to Izu, Minamoto no Yoshitsune to Kurama — setting the stage for the Genpei War.

Enemy of

• Minamoto no Yoshitsune

  After Minamoto no Yoshitsune won the decisive battles of the Genpei War, Minamoto no Yoritomo grew suspicious of his brother's independence and popularity, declared him an outlaw, and hunted him across Japan until Minamoto no Yoshitsune was cornered at Koromogawa and killed himself.

Associated with

• Hachiman

  Minamoto no Yoritomo rebuilt and elevated Tsurugaoka Hachimangū into the spiritual heart of his new shogunate at Kamakura, claiming the war god's ancient patronage of the Minamoto line as divine sanction for warrior rule over Japan.