What a Friend We Have in Jizōs 5

Yoritomo’s exile lasted twenty years. In 1179, he married Masako, the Hōjō clan leader’s daughter. A year later he entered and set up his capital at Kamakura. Responding to Prince Mochihito’s call to arms of the Mimamoto against the Taira-backed accession of the throne of his nephew, Antoku, Yoritomo recruited his half brother, Yoshitune, and his cousin Yoshinaka. The Genpei War became a classic medieval Japanese military tale, chronicled as a samurai epic narrative, in The Tale of the Heike, written two hundred years later. Despite the liberties taken in the pursuit of allegory, it isn’t an inappropriate way to understand the events that would define the direction the country would take, on the way to unification.
A narrative of Yoritomo’s eventual victory, The Tale of the Heike is roughly divided into a sequence of three deaths, those of Kiyomori and Yoshinaka and Yoshitune.