History of Asia

[Masako Hojo] Is Minamoto no Yoritomo's wife a villain? A sad life hidden behind it!

Masako Hojo ( Masako Hojo ) Minamoto no Yoritomo opened the "Let's make a good country Kamakura Shogunate" ( Tomo Minamoto ) Is my wife.

When Yoritomo died first, he pulled the shogunate himself "Nun Shogun" . Will be called.

As her wife, she was said to have been a terrifying wife, "Japan's Three Great Evil Women" There is also one side that she is called.

What kind of woman was she really?

And why was she called a villain?

Let's go.

Masako Hojo, easy profile!

1157 , Izu Province ( Izu no Kuni ) (Shizuoka Prefecture) Tokimasa Hojo ( Hojo Tokimasa ) Born as the eldest daughter of Mr.

Tokimasa lost the battle with Taira and was exiled to Izu Minamoto no Yoritomo It was the role of monitoring Mr.

Around 20 , Masako overwhelmed her father's opposition and married with Yoritomo To do.

It would have been a big problem for her daughter to get married even though she was watching.

Yoritomo had a boy with another woman before she married Masako.

But the woman's father was afraid of Mr. Taira's anger and left her child in the sea.

It means that everyone was afraid of Mr. Taira so much.

After that, when the eldest daughter was born between Yoritomo and Masako, Tokimasa also admitted the two, and the Hojo family will support Yoritomo.

Masako is around 42 Yoritomo died due to falling horses.

Masako lets her child take over as the family reign, and she leaves the house to become a nun.

However, the 2nd Shogun and the 3rd Shogun were assassinated one after another.

Masako is "Nun Shogun" Will pull the shogunate as.

Around 65 , The imperial court sets up a dispute with the Kamakura Shogunate to regain power.

The samurai on the shogunate side cannot hide their turmoil.

So Masako gave a speech to her vassals. To start.

"Your grace to Yoritomo should be higher than the mountains and deeper than the sea. Don't listen to the enemy's idiots and fulfill the general's intentions. If you still want to be on the court side You can go! "

These words subsided the turmoil of the vassals, and the shogunate army, which had grown to 190,000 troops, defeated the imperial court army.

I would like to hear a speech that moves the listener's heart.

Four years later, he died at the age of 69.

Masako's jealous personality!


When Masako has a baby on her stomach, Yoritomo is having an affair. ..

Masako, who noticed it, destroyed her house, which was hiding the woman.

Still, I didn't feel comfortable and exiled the owner of the house. "Oni-bride" like a picture It's the first time.

In addition, Yoritomo tries to welcome a princess to her concubine, but there is a story that her father did not realize it because she was afraid of Masako's anger.

Masako's "demon bride" has already been revealed to the world.

When Masako had a child again, Yoritomo had an affair again .. Yoritomo-san hasn't been disciplined.

I had a child with the woman, but she was raised to hide and was sent home at the age of seven.

At that time, it was common to have a concubine in addition to the main room to increase the number of offspring, but Masako did not allow it.

Therefore, Yoritomo goes to the woman to hide.

Masako is also Masako, but Yoritomo is also Yoritomo.

Being ahead of the children!

・ Eldest daughter Ohime ( Ohime )
Minamoto no Yoshinaka was in conflict with Yoritomo-san. ( Yoshinaka Minamoto ) As a condition of peace with Mr. Yoshinaka's child, Yoshitaka ( Is it okay ) Kun 11 years old and Ohime 6 years old are married ..

However, Yoshinaka is in conflict with Yoritomo again.

Yoshinaka lost to Yoritomo, and 12-year-old Yoshitaka died in the wake.

Ohime fell ill from that sadness, Masako was furious, and Yoritomo was angry.

Masako visits temples and shrines to wish for recovery and brings new marriages, but she dies at the young age of 20 years old without recovering from her illness.

Two years later, Yoritomo also died.

・ Second daughter ・ Otohime ( Otohime )
I will be seriously ill in the same year as Yoritomo's death.

A well-known doctor was called from Kyo to Kamakura, but he did not recover and died at the young age of 14 . ..

There is a theory that the doctor poisoned him with the life of the imperial court ...

・ Second Shogun ・ Yoriie ( No more )
Old vassals oppose the dictatorship of young Yoriie.
It causes a lot of problems, Kemari ( Kemari ) Every day I spend all my time playing.

Finally, Masako was stripped of her general position and sent her to a temple in Izu.

After that, he was assassinated at the age of 23.

・ Third Shogun ・ real morning ( Sanetomo )
Mr. Sanetomo was a good general unlike Mr. Yoriie, but he is weak and tends to get sick.

And how, at the age of 28, he was assassinated by Yoriie's child ..

Masako thinks that every time Yoritomo and his children die, they will die together.

He is a very weak person.

Summary

It is said that the "villain" side has come to be called because the children who took up the shogunate died one after another, and Mr. Hojo, his parents' family, strengthened his power.

A painful and lonely life in which her husband and children die earlier and finally become alone.

The jealousy of Yoritomo may have been a sign of his weakness.

Masako can say that she has no reason to be called a "villain".