Kujō Yoritsugu Explained

Fujiwara no Yoritsugu Japanese: 藤原頼嗣
Office:	Shōgun
1Blankname:	Shikken
1Namedata:	Hōjō Tsunetoki Hōjō Tokiyori
Predecessor:	Fujiwara no Yoritsune
Successor:	Prince Munetaka
Birth Date:	17 December 1239
Birth Place:	Kamakura, Japan
Death Place:	Kyoto, Japan
Spouse:	Hiwadahime
Term Start:	1244
Term End:	1252
Father:	Fujiwara no Yoritsune
Mother:	Ōmiya no kata

, also known as, was the fifth shōgun of the Kamakura shogunate of Japan. His father was the 4th Kamakura shōgun, Kujō Yoritsune.^[1]

The Kujō family was one of the five branches of the historically powerful Fujiwara clan of courtiers.

Family

1244 (Kangen 2): In the spring of this year, a number of extraordinary phenomena in the skies over Kamakura troubled Yoritsugu's father Yoritsune deeply.^[2]
1244 (Kangen 2, 4th month): Yoritsugu had his coming-of-age ceremonies at age 6. In the same month, his father asked Emperor Go-Saga for permission to give up his responsibilities as shōgun in favor of Yoritsugu.^[2]
1245 (Kangen 3, 7th month): Yoritsune shaved his head and became a Buddhist priest.^[2]
1246 (Kangen 4, 7th month): Yoritsugu married the sister of Hōjō Tsunetoki. He was seven and she was sixteen.^[2]
September 1, 1256 (Kōgen 1, 11th day of the 8th month): Yoritsugu's father dies at the age of 38.^[3]
October 14, 1256 (Kōgen 1, 24th day of the 9th month): Yoritsugu dies at the age of 16.^[3]

The years in which Yoritsugu was shogun are more specifically identified by more than one era name or nengō.

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