Minamoto no Yoshikuni

In this Japanese name, the family name is Minamoto.

Minamoto no Yoshikuni (源義国, 1082–1155) was the son of a famous samurai named Minamoto no Yoshiie and an ancestor of the Ashikaga and Nitta families. Yoshikuni was the samurai who first implored the spirit of the Iwashimizu Shrine to start living in this bamboo grove and he built the shrine in honor of the god Hachiman.

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Pictures of the Iwashimizu Hachimangu Shrine of Minamoto no Yoshikuni
A Medieval Samurai Domicile The Hikobe Family Manor

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