Hōjō Yasutoki

Hōjō Yasutoki (born 1183, Kamakura, Japan—died July 14, 1242, Kamakura) was a regent whose administrative innovations in the shogunate, or military dictatorship, were responsible for institutionalizing that office as the major ruling body in Japan until 1868 and for stabilizing Hōjō rule of Japan for almost a century. The office of shogun originated with Minamoto Yoritomo in 1185, but after his death in 1199 Yasutoki’s grandfather, Hōjō Tokimasa, and father, Hōjō Yoshitoki, took over the...