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TEN IN HISTORY OF JAPAN (5): The flashy DECLINE OF YOSHITSUNE

After the defeat of the Taira, Yoshitsune star gleamed with its full intensity. While, eaten by jealousy and envy, Yoritomo decided to delete it. Over five years he was chasing Yoshitsune and his followers, who not only remained faithful to the end, but is devoted to die of the most picturesque, particularly suitable to be represented in the kabuki . This was the case for Satô Tadanobu, who was caught by Yoritomo's men while he was with her lover (who had previously reported), and when they saw their enemies attacked them grabbing the first thing that came to hand, proved to be a Go board.

Finally, in 1189 came the fugitive Yoshitsune Koromogawa Castle, where he had planned to be a dignified death. In order to provide time to make arrangements, Benkei was placed on the bridge to the castle, and there planted fought fiercely against Yoritomo's men causing them heavy casualties. Frightened, they retreated to the other end of the bridge, from where they observed that, despite being riddled with arrows, Benkei was still standing with a fierce look in his eyes. Finally a soldier gathered enough courage to approach, and found that had died from an undetermined time. So this place is known as 'death on an Benkei' whose turbulent history reasoned, we might say, between two bridges *. Free

full of rival Minamoto Yoritomo in 1192 proclaimed himself shogun , a position which until then had been to something like a minister of war. Yoritomo, therefore, was not the first shogun of Japan, but the first to rely on the title to be the absolute ruler behind a puppet emperor. As if to emphasize the separation between the effective power of shogun and nominal power of the Emperor, Yoritomo moved the institutions of government from Kyoto to Kamakura. Therefore, this period is known as the shogunate ( Bakufu ) of Kamakura.

_____________ * See chapter 3.

Engravings, from top:
1 .- Being surrounded by men of Yoritomo in a temple, Satô Tadanobu jumps through a window dressed in the armor of Yoshitsune to mislead. 2 .- Satô Tadanobu
attacking their attackers with the Go board.
3 .- Another version of the same episode. Look better here