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Yoritomo’s piety bought him a little more time to enjoy his success; he was 52 when he was thrown by a horse and died of his injuries.
In many ways Yoritomo was a less-than-admirable figure in Japanese history, but you still might want to stop at this little moss-covered stone pagoda to pay your respects.
In Kamakura proper, don’t miss Tsuru-ga-oka Hachimangu, the shrine complex built by Yoritomo no Minamoto, the first Kamakura shogun.
Japan’s austere, ruthless, but statesmanlike new ruler, Yoritomo Minamoto, set up his government in Kamakura (just south of modern Tokyo), well away from the “softening” influence of court life that had been the undoing of his predecessor, Kiyomori.
A short walk east from Hachimangu is the tomb of Yoritomo — an exceedingly plain and modest affair compared with the way a later dynasty of shoguns chose to immortalize themselves at Nikko.