Yoshitsune MINAMOTO

Yoshitsune Minamoto was a legendary samurai general who lived in Japan during the Heian period. He was the younger half-brother of Minamoto no Yoritomo, the first shogun of the Kamakura shogunate. Yoshitsune was born in 1159 in Kyoto, the capital of Japan at the time. His father was Minamoto no Yoshitomo, a powerful warlord who was killed in the Genpei War. Yoshitsune's mother was Tokiwa Gozen, a concubine of Yoshitomo. After Yoshitomo's death, Yoshitsune and his older brother Yoritomo were taken into the care of their uncle, Minamoto no Yukiie. Yukiie raised the boys as his own and taught them how to fight. In 1180, the Genpei War broke out again. Yoritomo led the Minamoto clan against the Taira clan, who were the ruling family of Japan at the time. Yoshitsune fought alongside his brother and helped to defeat the Taira at the Battle of Dannoura in 1185. After the war, Yoritomo became the first shogun of the Kamakura s