Hōjō Tokiyori

Hōjō Tokiyori's tomb

Hōjō Tokiyori ( Japanese 北 条 時 頼 ; * 1227 ; † 1263 ) ruled from 1246 to 1256 as the fifth Shikken (regent) of the Kamakura Shogunate in Japan . He was the son of Hōjō Tokiuji and a daughter of Adachi Kagemori .

Tokiyori became a Shikken after the death of his brother Hōjō Tsunetoki . Immediately after taking office, he crushed an attempted coup by the former Shogun Kujō Yoritsune and Tokiyori's relative Nagoe Mitsutoki . In the following year he let Adachi Kagemori destroy the powerful Miura clan at the Battle of Hochi . He called the experienced brother of his grandfather, Hōjō Shigetoki , back from Kyōto and appointed him Rensho . In 1252 he replaced the Shogun Kujō Yoritsugu with Prince Munetaka . He thus successfully consolidated his power base.

He was celebrated for his good government. He worked on reforms, mainly by removing various regulations. He reduced the service of the Gokenin in protecting Kyoto. He worked to resolve the growing disputes of his vassals over lands. In 1249 he introduced the Hikitsuke legal system .

In 1252 he began to make politics at private meetings in his residence instead of discussing them in the Hyōjō ( 評定 ), the council of the shogunate . 1256 he became a Buddhist priest and handed over the position of Shikken to Hōjō Nagatoki , a son of Shigetoki, while Tokiyori's underage son Hōjō Tokimune succeeded as Tokusō , as the head of the Hōjō clan . Tokiyori continued to rule de facto, albeit without any official position. This marks the beginning of the Tokusō dictatorship.

There are a number of legends according to which Tokiyori traveled to Japan to see the real world and make life better.

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