Hōjō Takatoki
Hōjō Takatoki 北条 高時 | |
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 Hōjō Takatoki fighting with a group of tengu, as depicted in a print by Yoshitoshi. | |
| Shikken | |
| In office 1316–1326 | |
| Monarchs | |
Shōgun | Prince Morikuni |
| Rensho | Hōjō Sadaaki |
| Preceded by | Hōjō Mototoki |
| Succeeded by | Hōjō Sadaaki |
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| Born | 9 January 1304 |
| Died | 4 July 1333 (aged 29) |
| Spouse | daughter of Adachi Tokiaki |
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Hōjō Takatoki (北条 高時, 9 January 1304 – 4 July 1333) was the last Tokusō and ruling Shikken (regent) of Japan's Kamakura shogunate; the rulers that followed were his puppets. A member of the Hōjō clan, he was the son of Hōjō Sadatoki, and was preceded as shikken by Hōjō Mototoki.
Biography
Takatoki became regent at the age of eight, and thus actual power was held for a time by
Nanboku-chō
Wars in which agents of the two Imperial branch families would come to outright war.
Minamoto/Hōjō government and establishing his own Ashikaga shogunate
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Takatoki committed suicide alongside his family during the 1333
Hojo Tokiyuki
after his father's suicide.
Popular culture
- Takatoki was portrayed by Tsurutaro Kataoka in the 1991 drama "Taiheiki".
- He also appears as a boy in the 2001 taiga drama "Hojō Tokimune", portrayed by Yosuke Asari.
References
- ^ Sansom, George (1958). A History of Japan to 1334. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press. p465.
- ISBN 4-8053-0375-1
- Frederic, Louis (2002). "Japan Encyclopedia." Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press.
- Sansom, George (1961). "A History of Japan: 1334-1615." Stanford, California: Stanford University Press.
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