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The essay examines the changes of the historical understanding and discussion about the Kamakura Bakufu in Japanese history. In general, medieval men considered Minamotono Yoritomo, the founder of the Kamakura Bakufu, in a quite favorable manner. For people in the early modern times, Minamotono Yoritomo was none other than ‘the progenitor of military family.’ It was exactly in this early modern times that the view regarding the birth of the Kamakura Bakufu as an epoch-making event in the history of Japan was firmly established. In the modern times after the Meiji Restoration, especially since the formation of Japanese modern historiography, discussions about the Kamakura Bakufu and its founder have been divided into three parts. Firstly, as for Minamotono Yoritomo, more emphasis was paid on the historical circumstance around him rather than on his moral sense or his personal character. Secondly, there had been much debate on the issue of whether his loyalty to the Court(imperial family) was sincere or not, and the theory of regarding the founder as ‘loyal to the king’ generally came to gain more influence. Thirdly, the warriors of the eastern provinces came to be considered as a pathfinder to the Japanese medieval times, through an analogy with the feudalism in the middle ages of Europe. From the formation of modern historiography to the postwar 1950s, researchers of the Japanese medieval times figured out warriors as main body of reform who were getting over the royal regime, an ancient kingdom. The general understanding of the Kamakura Bakufu as the beginning of Japanese medieval feudalism also has its basis in Japanese modern and postwar historiography.
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Minamotono Yoritomo, Kamakura Bakufu, moral justification of Neo-Confucianism, medieval feudalism, warriors of the eastern provinces
