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[[Image:Hojo-yagura.jpg|right|thumb|320px|The site where Takatoki and a number of others committed suicide in [[1333]] (''Hôjô Takatoki Harakiri [[Yagura]]''), a short distance from the grave of [[Shogun]] [[Minamoto no Yoritomo]], in [[Kamakura]].]]
 
[[Image:Hojo-yagura.jpg|right|thumb|320px|The site where Takatoki and a number of others committed suicide in [[1333]] (''Hôjô Takatoki Harakiri [[Yagura]]''), a short distance from the grave of [[Shogun]] [[Minamoto no Yoritomo]], in [[Kamakura]].]]
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*''Born: [[1303]]''
 
*''Died: [[1333]]/5/22''
 
*''Died: [[1333]]/5/22''
 
*''Japanese'': [[北条]]高時 ''(houjou takatoki)''
 
*''Japanese'': [[北条]]高時 ''(houjou takatoki)''
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Hôjô Takatoki was the last of the [[Hojo clan (Hojo Regents)|Hôjô clan regents]] (''[[shikken]]''), who was forced to commit suicide during the [[1333]] [[Siege of Kamakura|fall of Kamakura]] to pro-Imperial forces led by [[Nitta Yoshisada]] on behalf of [[Emperor Go-Daigo]].
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Hôjô Takatoki was the 14th and last of the [[Hojo clan (Hojo Regents)|Hôjô clan regents]] (''[[shikken]]''). He was forced to commit suicide during the [[1333]] [[Siege of Kamakura|fall of Kamakura]] to pro-Imperial forces led by [[Nitta Yoshisada]] on behalf of [[Emperor Go-Daigo]].
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Takatoki became regent in [[1316]].
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Takatoki became regent in [[1310]].
    
The site where Takatoki and other members of the Hôjô clan killed themselves can still be found today, a few tens of meters from the grave of [[Minamoto no Yoritomo]], but Takatoki was afterwards entombed at the [[Zen]] temple [[Engaku-ji]] founded by his grandfather [[Hojo Tokimune|Hôjô Tokimune]].
 
The site where Takatoki and other members of the Hôjô clan killed themselves can still be found today, a few tens of meters from the grave of [[Minamoto no Yoritomo]], but Takatoki was afterwards entombed at the [[Zen]] temple [[Engaku-ji]] founded by his grandfather [[Hojo Tokimune|Hôjô Tokimune]].
    
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==References==
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*Arai Hakuseki, Joyce Ackroyd (trans.), ''Told Round a Brushwood Fire'', University of Tokyo Press (1979), 312n48.
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