Tameyoshi

Scion-tier Minamoto clan head, Rokujō Judge. Fought on the losing Sutoku-Yorinaga side at the Hōgen Rebellion of 1156; his own son Yoshitomo fought on the opposite winning side. Beheaded by Yoshitomo on imperial order after the rebellion — the canonical-Japanese filial-tragic-execution scene preserved in the Hōgen Monogatari. The execution closes the post-Genpei-cycle three-generation tragic frame: father Yoshitada killed by uncle 1109; Tameyoshi beheaded by own son 1156.

Parentage

• Yoshitada

Children

• Tametomo
• Minamoto no Yoshikata
• Yoshitomo

Epithets

• 六条判官

Relations

• father: Yoshitada
• father of: Tametomo
• father of: Yoshitomo
• killed by: Yoshitomo

Sources

• Sonpi Bunmyaku
• Hōgen Monogatari (Tale of Hōgen, late 12th c.)
• Hyakurenshō
• court diaries