Background
Adachi Yasumori was born in Japan. He was third son of Yoshikage. He was also called Kurd. His family served the Kamakura Shogunate.
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Adachi Yasumori
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Career
After his father’s death, he was made vice-castellan of Akita and vice-governor of Mutsu Province in northeastern Japan. Unsurprisingly, Yasumori gained a number of enemies, the most powerful of whom was Taira Yoritsuna, the Hôjô family's house steward. On the 11th month of 1285, Yoritsuna attacked the Adachi compound. The fighting lasted for some five hours but in the end Yasumori was forced to commit suicide. He was joined in this by all of his family and many of his supporters. The reasons for Yoritsuna's attack are hazy but possibly Yasumori's heir, Munekage, was plotting to take the post of Shogun (he claimed descent from Minamoto Yoritomo.) Just as likely, if not more so, is that Yoritsuna generated these charges as a pretext to do away with his hated rival Yasumori. Yet Yoritsuna himself would be done in by rivals in 1293.
