Career
Tameyoshi is also known as Mutsu Shirō (陸奥 四郎). Though most famous for his involvement in the Hōgeneral Rebellion, Minamoto Number Tameyoshi is also said to have intervened in a number of other conflicts earlier in his life. Around 1113, the ongoing rivalry between the warrior monks of Mii-dera and Enryaku-ji erupted into outright violence in the streets of Kyoto.
Though the palace guard mobilized quickly to protect the Emperor, it is said that Tameyoshi, with a handful of mounted samurai, drove the mobs away himself.