Hojo Yoshimasa

Japanese: 北条義政 - ほうじょう・よしまさ

Year of death: November 27, 4th year of Koan (January 8, 1282)
Year of birth: Ninji 3 (1242)
A shogunate liaison officer in the mid-Kamakura period. Son of Hojo Shigetoki. First named Tokikage (or Jiryou). From an early age, he served the 6th shogun, Prince Munetaka, as a member of the Shogunate's palace guards and day guards (guards within the Shogun's palace of the Kamakura shogunate), and in 1259 was appointed Sakon no Shogen and Jugoinoge. In 1265 he served as a Hikitsukeshu and in 1266 he became a Councillor under the regent Hojo Tokimune in 1267, and was then appointed as Musashi no Kami. During the Bun'ei War (1274), he assisted Tokimune and helped him overcome the crisis. In April 1277, due to illness, he resigned from his liaison officer position and became a monk (also known as Dogi or Masayoshi), visited Zenkoji Temple in Shinano (Nagano Prefecture), retired to Shioda-sho in the same province, and died there. He is the founder of the Shioda line of the Hojo clan. He was also known as a poet, and his poems are collected in works such as Zoku Shui Wakashu.

(Eiji Nitta)

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Japanese:

没年：弘安4.11.27(1282.1.8)
生年：仁治3(1242)
鎌倉中期の幕府の連署。北条重時の子。初名時景(または時量)。早くから廂衆・昼番衆(鎌倉幕府の将軍御所内の番役)として6代将軍宗尊親王に近侍し,正元1(1259)年左近将監,従五位下となった。文永2(1265)年引付衆,同4年評定衆などを歴任したのち,同10年執権北条時宗の連署となり,次いで武蔵守に任じ,文永の役(1274)の際には時宗を補佐して危機を乗り切った。建治3(1277)年4月病のため連署を辞して出家(法名道義,政義とも),信濃(長野県)善光寺に詣で,同国塩田庄に退隠,同地で没した。北条氏塩田流の祖。歌人としても知られ,『続拾遺和歌集』などに詠歌が収められている。

(新田英治)

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