Minamoto no Yoritomo was a famous shogun who founded and was the first shogun of the Kamakura Shogunate of Japan. He was born on May 9th, 1147 in Owari Province, died on February 9th, 1199, in Kamakura, Kanagawa Prefectrure, Japan. Yoritomo ruled from 1192 until 1199, with two siblings names Minamoto no Yoshitsune, and Minamoto no Norivori with 2 children, Minamoto no Yoriie, and Minamoto no Santenomo. Yoritomo’s father Minamoto Yoshitomo attempted to destroy the Taira clan in 1159 but was defeated. Then his son Yoritomo was captured and banished to a peninsula southwest of Tokyo, now part of the Shizuoka prefecture, where he lived under the Taira surveillance for 20 years. By seducing the daughter of his jailer he was able to enliven his