Background
Yasutoki Hōjō was born in 1138 in Kamakura. He was the eldest son of Hojo Yoshitoki.
北条 泰時
Yasutoki Hōjō was born in 1138 in Kamakura. He was the eldest son of Hojo Yoshitoki.
With the death of his father in 1224, he replaced him in office to become the third shikken, or regent, of the Kamakura shogunate and the actual wielder of authority in the government.
In 1232 he promulgated the Joei-shikimoku, also known as the Kanto-goseibai- shikimoku, a code of laws for the warrior class that fixed in writing what had heretofore been merely custom. The first attempt to draw up a constitution for the military government, its spirit continued to be influential long after the disappearance of the Kamakura shogunate and was reflected even much later in the practices of the Edo shogunate.
Under his leadership the Kamakura shogunate enjoyed its period of greatest political stability.
Yasutoki was a devout Buddhist, expressing particular admiration for the religious leader Myoe of the Kozan-ji in Kyoto and founding a number of temples.
