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Over the next 20 years, the Minamoto clan acquired new strength by offering better guarantees to local landowners — and their armies — than they could expect from court.
The victorious Minamoto clan chose Kamakura as its headquarters because this fishing village — girded on three sides by steep wooded hills — was a natural fortress.
First of the national rulers to take the title of sei-i tai-shogun (“barbarian-subduing great general”), Minamoto expanded and consolidated his power by confiscating lands from some of the defeated Taira and redistributing them to his samurai vassals.
The emperor at Kyoto — still seconded by a Fujiwara regent at court — legitimized a Minamoto who was himself a military dictator controlled by a Hojo regent.
The Amida Hall of Hasedera houses the image of a seated Amida Buddha, endowed by Minamoto no Yoritomo when he was 42 — a particularly unlucky age according to popular Japanese belief.