The rise of the shogunate in Japan

After the war of two samurai houses, the victor, Minamoto no Yoritomo, receives from the emperor the title of shogun and sets up his own government at Kamakura, far from the capital. The emperor stays on the throne and performs the rites, but land, courts and soldiery are held by the warriors. An order takes shape built on vassal loyalty, hereditary holdings and a strict notion of honour. At the end of the thirteenth century the Mongol fleets come against Japan twice, and both times perish in storms that will be named the divine wind. Military rule, in one form or another, will last until 1868.