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How Did Personal Loyalty Become the Kamakura Shogunate? - The Institutional Origins of the Kamakura Shogunate | Sleepy Facts About History
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In 1180, a young exile named Minamoto no Yoritomo began registering his followers' land rights and hearing their disputes from a defensible coastal town far from the imperial capital. He was not attempting to overthrow the emperor, but to build something more durable: a parallel warrior government that would transform how power was organized in Japan for the next seven centuries. This episode examines the practical institutional innovations that allowed Yoritomo to turn the personal…
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