Hōjō Masako was a Japanese female samurai and politician who exercised significant power in the early years of the Kamakura period, which was reflected by her contemporary sobriquet of the "nun shogun
Hōjō Masako by Kikuchi Yōsai (菊池 容斎)
Minamoto no Yoritomo being admitted to the house of Masako, daughter of Hojo Tokimasa (right).
Hōjō Masako's tomb at the Jufuku-ji, Kamakura, Japan
Hōjō Tokimasa was a Japanese samurai lord who was the first shikken of the Kamakura shogunate and head of the Hōjō clan. He was shikken from 1203 until his abdication in 1205, and Protector of Kyoto f
Hōjō Tokimasa, Governor of Sagami Province in Dai Nihon Rokujūyoshō by Utagawa Yoshitora
Hōjō Tokimasa by Kurihara Nobumitsu
The grave of Hōjō Tokimasa, in Izunokuni, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan