Minamoto no Tametomo

Minamoto no Tametomo (Japanese源 为 朝; * 1139, † 1170 ) was a member of the influential Minamoto in Japan. As a Samurai, he participated in the rebellion of 1156 Hōgen. He was the son of Minamoto no Tameyoshi, his brothers Minamoto no Yoshitomo Yukiie and Minamoto no.

In the Hōgen rebellion he fought with his father at the siege of the property Shirakawa- to on the part of defenders. Among the opponents were Taira no Kiyomori and his brother Yoshitomo. After the palace was passed through the enemies on fire and no longer hold, Tametomo was forced to flee. He was banished to the island of Ōshima one of the Izu Islands.

In the Ryukyu Islands was believed for a long time that he had finally made ​​it to Okinawa and the local Kingdom Chūzan founded by generation of the first king shunting. Although this version is very unlikely she was in Chūzan Seikan of Shō shoken, the first history of Ryukyu, reproduced and probably handed down with the purpose of strengthening the mythological and ideological ties between Japan and Ryukyu.

Tametomo is known in the epic chronicles as an excellent archer. He is said to have sunk a whole ship of the Taira, in that he had pierced it with a single arrow below the water line.

In the year 1170, when the conflict between the Minamoto and Taira continued to Tametomo of warriors of the Taira was trapped on a small island. He was possibly the first warrior in history who committed seppuku.

Swell

• George H. Kerr: Okinawa, the History of Iceland to People. Revised edition. Tuttle Publishing, Boston MA 2000, inter alia, ISBN 0-8048-2087-2.
• Stephen Turnbull: The Samurai Sourcebook. Cassell & Co., London 2000, ISBN 1-85409-523-4.

• Samurai
• Minamoto
• Born in 1139
• Died in 1170
• Man