Kujō Yoritsugu


Kujō Yoritsugu, also known as Fujiwara no Yoritsugu, was the fifth shōgun of the Kamakura shogunate of Japan. His father was the 4th Kamakura shōgun, Kujō Yoritsune.
The Kujō family was one of the five branches of the historically powerful Fujiwara clan of imperial courtiers.

Family

Events of Yoritsugu shogunate

1244 : In the spring of this year, a number of extraordinary phenomena in the skies over Kamakura troubled Yoritsugu's father Yoritsune deeply.1244 : Yoritsugu had his coming-of-age ceremonies at age 6. In the same month, his father asked Emperor Go-Saga for permission to give up his responsibilities as shōgun in favor of Yoritsugu.1245 : Yoritsune shaved his head and became a Buddhist priest.1246 : Yoritsugu married the sister of Hōjō Tsunetoki. He was seven, and she was sixteen.1 September 1256 : Yoritsugu's father dies at the age of 38.14 October 1256 : Yoritsugu dies at the age of 16.

Eras of Yoritsugu's shogunate

The years in which Yoritsugu was shogun are more specifically identified by more than one era name or nengō.Kangen Hōji