A gokenin (御家人) was initially a vassal of the shogunate of the Kamakura and the Muromachi periods. In exchange for protection and the right to become...
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were referred to as gokenin. However, in the Edo period, hatamoto were the upper vassals of the Tokugawa house, and the gokenin were the lower vassals...
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Gokenin Zankurō (御家人斬九郎) is a novel by Renzaburō Shibata. The protagonist of this jidaigeki is Matsudaira Zankurō, a low-ranking gokenin in the service...
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(大江広元), gokenin of the Kamakura shogunate. Mōri Tsunemitsu (毛利経光, ? – ? ), gokenin of the Kamakura shogunate. Mōri Tokichika (毛利時親, ? –1341), gokenin of the...
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shogunates. The role of the Samurai-dokoro was to take the leadership of gokenin, the shogun's retainers, and to be in charge of the imprisonment of criminals...
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council of the shogunate (Hyōjō (評定)), the Imperial Court of Kyoto, or their gokenin vassals, and they made their decisions at private meetings in their residences...
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principle, Kamakura period gokenin owed some kind of service at the shogun's court. The obligatory ōyuka service required gokenin to attend at the shogun's...
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family and have one of his own. The term can also be synonymous with gokenin. The gokenin were vassals of the shōgun during the Kamakura, Ashikaga, and Tokugawa...
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During the Kamakura period, the jitō were chosen amongst the ranks of gokenin (the shogun's vassals) who handled military affairs. Jitō handled the taxation...
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1281. The shogunate defeated the Mongols with the help of samurai called gokenin (御家人), lords in the service of the shogunate. However, since the war was...
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synonymous with gokenin (御家人), which refers to bushi who owned territory and served the shogun. However, some samurai of exceptional status, hi-gokenin (非御家人)...
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impoverished gokenin (御家人) to be adopted into a samurai family and inherit the samurai's position and stipend. The amount of money given to a gokenin varied...
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no Yoritomo in 1180 but eventually surrendered to Minamoto and became a gokenin for the Kamakura shogunate. At the fall of the shogunate in the 14th century...
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Kamakura shogunate, giving the Shugo jurisdiction over land disputes between gokenin (御家人) and allowing the Shugo to receive half of all taxes from the areas...
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(hatamoto 旗本) had the privilege to directly approach the shogun; the housemen (gokenin 御家人) did not have the privilege of the shogun's audience. By the early...
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played the lead character, Matsudaira Kurō, in the television jidaigeki Gokenin Zankurō, which ran for several seasons. He has gone on to garner acclaim...
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Suzerainty Thegn Vavasour, a type of vassal Zamindar Multiple vassalage [de] Gokenin, vassals of the shogunate in Japan Manrent, Scottish Clan treaties of offensive...
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and gokenin of the late Heian and early Kamakura period. He served as shugo of Shimotsuke Province and Harima Province. He was an influential gokenin during...
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Officially, the gokenin in each province were supposed to serve the shugo, but in practice, the relationship between them was fragile, as the gokenin were vassals...
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known under the titles of shugo or jitō, from among his close vassals, the gokenin. The Kamakura shogunate allowed its vassals to maintain their own armies...
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(山口 祐助), an ashigaru of the Akashi Domain, who had bought the rank of gokenin (a low-ranking retainer directly serving the Tokugawa shōgun), and his...
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Takaoka clan (section Seiwa Genji, Tadain-gokenin (Lord Tada Mitsunaka's bodyguard samurai)'s descendant)
Takaoka Ichizaemon, Takaoka Gonzaemon, and Takaoka Keisuke who was the Tada Gokenin (in Settsu Province) samurai at the end term of Edo period was the same...
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one of the few vocational positions available to the blind in that era. Gokenin Zankurō is a samurai but, due to his low rank and income, he has to work...
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(2001) Kyoto Meikyuu Annai 'Special' (2001) Red - Recurring Guest - (2001) Gokenin Zankuro - Guest Star - (2002) Kyoto Meikyuu Annai 4 - Series Regular -...
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the Genpei War in 1185. On the other hand, Suketsune quickly became a gokenin (retainer) of shogun Minamoto no Yoritomo. The Soga brothers, grandsons...
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Tsunemitsu (毛利 経光, ? – ?) was a samurai during the Kamakura period and a gokenin of the Kamakura shogunate. He was the fourth son of Mōri Suemitsu, the...
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Hōkōshū (奉公衆) were high-ranking samurai guard-officials and close retainers (gokenin) to the Ashikaga shogun in Muromachi period Japan. The hōkōshū were made...
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the vassals (the gokenin) were allowed to become de facto owners of the land they administered, coupled to the custom that all gokenin children could inherit...
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his grandson Tokiyori. The tokusō line held overwhelming power over the gokenin and the cadet lines of the Hōjō clan. Tokiyori often worked out policies...
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upon the death of Minamoto no Yoritomo, Hōjō Tokimasa began to rule as Gokenin. Tsuchimikado removed himself from Kyoto, traveling first to Tosa Province...
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