Nov 19 (Linfamy) - What would you do if you changed from a nobody into one of the most powerful people in the country, overnight? Hojo Masako 北条政子 was the wife of Minamoto no Yoritomo, the founder of Japan’s first shogunate.
Yoritomo was a political genius, and his wife was no slouch in that department either, which made for epic domestic arguments After Yoritomo’s death, Hojo Masako became a nun, but instead of leaving political life, she decided to keep her clan in power and nurture the government that her husband created. They called her the Nun Shogun. Masako was born in 1157 to Hojo Tokimasa 北条時政.
