Minamoto Yoritomo resolves to end his clan's exile and avenge the brutal loss in December, 1159 as they had fought under the white banner of the Emperor, while the Taira fought under their red ...

The tradition is said to have been started more than 800 years ago by the samurai Minamoto no Yoritomo, who established the first shogunate in Kamakura, Kanagawa Prefecture. It has continued to ...

Minamoto no Yoritomo (1147-1199). The couple are said to have kept up their trysts in the present-day city of Atami in Shizuoka Prefecture at Izusan shrine and the Kogoi-no-Mori forest behind it.