Kawachi Genji

FounderMinamoto no YorinobuFinal rulerMinamoto no SanetomoFounding year10th centuryDissolution1219Ruled until1219, Minamoto no Sanetomo assassinatedCadet branches

The Kawachi Genji (河内源氏) were members of a family line within that of the Seiwa Genji, which in turn was one of several branches of the Minamoto clan, one of the most famous noble clans in Japanese history. Descended from Minamoto no Yorinobu (968–1048), the Kawachi Genji included Minamoto no Yoshiie (1041–1108), who fought in the Zenkunen War and Gosannen War, and common ancestor of nearly all the major Minamoto generals of the Genpei War from which the Minamoto are famous.

Lineage

Note: Each degree of indentation indicates a father-son relationship.

• Yorinobu (968–1048) – son of Minamoto no Mitsunaka
  • Yoriyoshi (998–1082) – son of Yorinobu; hero of the Zenkunen War
    • Yoshitsuna (died 1134) – son of Yoriyoshi
    • Yoshimitsu (died 1127) – son of Yoriyoshi, ancestor of the Satake, Hiraga, and Takeda families
    • Yoshiie (1041–1108) – son of Yoriyoshi, fought alongside his father in the Zenkunen War, led imperial forces in the Gosannen War
      • Yoshichika
        • Tameyoshi (1096–1156) – grandson of Yoshiie
          • Yoshitomo (1123–1160), son of Tameyoshi
            • Yoshihira (1140–1160), son of Yoshitomo
            • Yoritomo (1147–1199), son of Yoshitomo, and first Kamakura shōgun
              • Yoriie (1182–1204), son of Yoritomo, and 2nd shōgun of the Kamakura Shogunate
              • Sanetomo(*) (1192–1219), son of Yoritomo, and 3rd shōgun of the Kamakura Shogunate
            • Noriyori (1156–1193), son of Yoshitomo
            • Yoshitsune (1159–1189), son of Yoshitomo, and one of the most famous samurai of all time
          • Tametomo (1139–1170), son of Tameyoshi
          • Yoshikata (？–1155), son of Tameyoshi
            • Yoshinaka (1154–1184), son of Yoshikata
          • Yukiie (d. 1186), son of Tameyoshi

(*)= During 1219 as Shogunate Minamoto Sanetomo was last head of Minamoto clan of Japan after his nephew Minamoto Kugyo – son of Yoriie – killed his uncle Sanemoto then will commit suicide himself. Also other nephew Ichiman – who was Yoriie's son. In 1203? he was executed on Hōjō's orders.

References

• Sansom, George (1958). A History of Japan to 1334. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press.
• Turnbull, Stephen (1998). The Samurai Sourcebook. London: Cassell & Co.