Minamoto no Yoritomo
1147–1199
Founder of the Kamakura shogunate, Japan's first military government.
- Known as
- Shogun
- Category
- Leaders & Baddies
- Born
- 1147, Atsuta-ku
- Died
- 1199, Kamakura
Alive at the same time as Minamoto no Yoritomo
- Eleanor of Aquitaine c. 1122–1204, queen
- Jayavarman VII c. 1122–c. 1218, king
- Frederick Barbarossa 1122–1190, emperor
- Averroes 1126–1198, philosopher
- Zhu Xi 1130–1200, philosopher
- Al-Jazari 1136–1206, engineer
- Saladin c. 1137–1193, sultan
- Maimonides c. 1138–1204, philosopher
- Nizami Ganjavi c. 1141–1209, poet
- Attar of Nishapur c. 1145–c. 1221, poet
- Richard the Lionheart 1157–1199, king
- Tamar of Georgia c. 1160–1213, queen
Portrait: Fujiwara no Takanobu, Public domain.
