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Adachi Morinaga Residence Site
神奈川県
Site of the Amazuna residence of Adachi Morinaga — Yoritomo's most loyal retainer from his years of exile, one of the Thirteen Lords, and the birthplace of regent Hojo Tokimune
Founded
1186
Type
Historic Site
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About 5 min walk from Hase Station (Enoshima Electric Railway) — beside the approach to Amazuna Shinmeigu
Hase 1-chome (beside the approach to Amazuna Shinmeigu), Kamakura, Kanagawa
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Historic Site
Founded 1186
840 years
Overview
A historic marker beside the approach path of Amazuna Shinmeigu, Hase, Kamakura, erected in March 1925 by the Kamakura Town Youth Association to mark the site of the residence of Adachi Morinaga (1135–1200). Known by his common name Fujikuro Morinaga, Adachi Morinaga was the earliest and most trusted retainer of Minamoto no Yoritomo. He began serving Yoritomo during the nearly twenty years Yorito…
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Origins
Adachi Morinaga was born in 1135, with his origins placed in either Adachi District, Musashi Province, or Hohama District, Mikawa Province. When Minamoto no Yoshitomo was killed after the Heiji Uprising of 1159 and his son Yoritomo was exiled to Hirugashima in Izu, Morinaga — a kinsman of Yoritomo's…
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Minamoto no Yoritomo
First Shogun of Kamakura
Age 39 at founding
Adachi Morinaga served as Yoritomo's closest retainer for nearly twenty years, from the years of exile in Izu onward. Yoritomo visited this Amazuna residence frequently — an unusual personal intimacy preserved in multiple Azuma Kagami entries. On January 2, 1186 (Bunji 2/1/2), after worshipping at Amazuna Shrine in the snow with Hojo Masako, Yoritomo stopped here at Morinaga's house. No other retainer left so many records of Yoritomo personally calling at his home, marking this residence as one of the places outside the palace where the shogun felt most at ease.
Hojo Tokimune
Eighth Regent, Mongol Invasions
Hojo Tokimune was born at this Adachi family residence in Amazuna on May 15, 1251 (Kencho 3). His mother was Matsushita Zenni, of the Adachi lineage descending from Adachi Morinaga, and his father was Hojo Tokiyori (later seventh regent). The Adachi clan's long maintenance of this Amazuna estate made it the birthplace of the regent who would repel the Mongol invasions; the well said to have provided the water for Tokimune's ritual first bath still stands in the precinct of the adjacent Amazuna Shinmeigu.
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