Minamoto clan: Minamoto no Yoritomo, Minamoto no Yoshinaka, Tomb of Minamoto no Yoritomo, Hojo Masako, Kugyo, Tomoe Gozen, Minamoto no Yoriie, Minamoto no Sanetomo, Kitabatake Chikafusa, Kumagai Naozane, Sakakibara clan, Minamoto no Yoshitsune

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 39. Chapters: Minamoto no Yoritomo, Minamoto no Yoshinaka, Tomb of Minamoto no Yoritomo, Hojo Masako, Kugyo, Tomoe Gozen, Minamoto no Yoriie, Minamoto no Sanetomo, Kitabatake Chikafusa, Kumagai Naozane, Sakakibara clan, Minamoto no Yoshitsune, Minamoto no Yoshiie, Seiwa Genji, Shizuka Gozen, Minamoto no Yorimitsu, Minamoto no Noriyori, Minamoto no Hiromasa, Minamoto no Mitsunaka, Kitabatake Akiie, Minamoto no Yorimasa, Minamoto no Tametomo, Hiki Yoshikazu, Minamoto no Yoshitomo, Kawachi Genji, Minamoto no Ichiman, Ashikaga clan, Nitta clan, Minamoto no Yorinobu, Nitta Yoshioki, Minamoto no Makoto, Minamoto no Masanobu, Minamoto no Yoriyoshi, Minamoto no Tameyoshi, Minamoto no Shitago, Tokiwa Gozen, Minamoto no Yukiie, Minamoto no Tomonaga, Minamoto no Yoshihira, Minamoto no Tsunemoto, Minamoto no Kintada, Minamoto no Toru, Imai Kanehira, Minamoto no Yoshishige, Minamoto no Yoshikiyo, Minamoto no Saneakira, Minamoto no Yoshitsuna, Three Genji Shrines, Minamoto no Muneyuki, Minamoto no Nakatsuna, Minamoto no Shigeyuki, Minamoto no Yoshiyasu, Minamoto-no-Takakuni. Excerpt: The tomb of Minamoto no Yoritomo ) (see photo below) is a monument in Kamakura, Kanagawa, Japan, located some hundred meters north of the site where the palace called Okura Bakufu, seat of Minamoto no Yoritomo's government, once stood. Although there is no evidence his remains are actually there, it is commonly assumed to be the resting place of Minamoto no Yoritomo, founder and first shogun of the Kamakura shogunate. The cenotaph consists of a 186 cm gorinto (a Buddhist stone stupa) surrounded by a stone tamagaki (a fence usually delimiting the sacred soil of a Shinto shrine), and was built during the Edo period (1603¿1868), far after the shogun's death in 1199. In the course of history, the site's prestige has attracted other structures, so that now it is occupied by the Site of the Hokke-do, (the spot where Yoritomo's Hokke-do, or funeral temple, used to stand during the Edo period), Shirahata Shrine Shirahata Jinja) (not to be confused with the omonymous shrine part of Tsurugaoka Hachiman-gu), and the black stone stele commemorating the Hokke-do and the mass suicide of the Miura clan. A couple of hundred meters further to the east lie the yagura (an artificial cave used during the Kamakura period as a grave or as a cenotaph) of the Miura clan, the twin tombs of Oe no Hiromoto and of his son Mori Suemitsu, and the grave of Yoritomo's illegitimate son Shimazu Tadahisa. The grave of Yoritomo and the ruins of the Hokke-do are national Historic Sites. Yoritomo's grave todayWhen Yoritomo suddenly died falling from his horse on February 8, 1199 (Shoji era, 13th day of the first month) he was buried in a Buddhist temple on the side of a hill just north of his government's seat, the Okura Bakufu. The temple stood where the tomb of Yoritomo now is, and was moved elsewhere in the Edo period. The temple hadn't yet assumed the name it is now known under, but was simply Yoritomo's jibutsudo ), the temple which enshrined his tutelary goddess Sho-Kannon. The name under which th