deaths
February 21, 1184
Minamoto no Yoshinaka, Japanese shōgun (born 1154)
Minamoto no Yoshinaka
Minamoto no Yoshinaka , also known as Kiso Yoshinaka , was a Japanese samurai lord mentioned in the epic poem The Tale of the Heike. A member of the Minamoto clan, he was a cousin and later rival of shogun Minamoto no Yoritomo during the Genpei War between the Minamoto and the Taira clans in the late Heian period.
List of shoguns
This article is a list of shoguns that ruled Japan intermittently, as hereditary military dictators, from the beginning of the Asuka period in 709 until the end of the Tokugawa shogunate in 1868.