Background
Yoshitoki Hōjō was born in 1163. He was the eldest son of Hojo Tokimasa.
北条 義時
Yoshitoki Hōjō was born in 1163. He was the eldest son of Hojo Tokimasa.
He joined the forces of Minamoto no Yoritomo in the struggle to overthrow the Taira family and establish the Kamakura shogunate. His father aspired to depose the third shogun, Minamoto no Sanetomo, and make himself the head of the military government, but Yoshitoki joined with his elder sister Masako in thwarting his father’s plans, principally because he feared that his father’s insatiable thirst for political power was arousing antagonism among the other warrior groups in the government.
In 1205 he succeeded his father to become the second shikken, or regent, nominally acting as assistant to the shogun but in practice wielding the actual power of government.