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The 2nd day of the 9th month of Kennin 3 (October 8, 1203): Hiki Yoshikazu killed; the Hiki clan destroyed the same day in the battle at Kogosho
In the 9th month of Kennin 3 (1203), Hiki Yoshikazu — who wielded great influence as the maternal in-law of the second Kamakura shogun, Minamoto no Yoriie — was murdered at Hojo Tokimasa's Nagoe residence in a plot masterminded by Tokimasa, and the Hiki clan was destroyed after being besieged at the Koshogo. Yoriie was removed from the shogunate and confined at Shuzen-ji in Izu, where he died the following year. The incident marked the Hojo clan's seizure of control over the shogunate's government.
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