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A 20-minute tram ride takes you out to the Yashima peninsula, formerly an island famed for the momentous battles in which the Minamoto clan drove out their Taira rivals in 1182, heralding the country’s rule by military dictatorship for the next seven centuries.
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 Taira, controlling the region along the Inland Sea, defeated the Minamoto armies based in the Kanto province east of the capital.
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.
Minamoto died in 1199, and the feudal structure passed intact to the tutelage of his widow’s family, the Hojo, who were content to play regent to a figurehead shogun, in much the same way as the Fujiwara had done with the emperor.