Friends who are familiar with Japanese history know that Genrai was the founder of the first shogunate (Kamakura shogunate) in Japanese history. From the Genrai dynasty onwards, the supreme ruler of Japan became a shogunate dominated by samurai, rather than an imperial court dominated by the emperor. Interestingly, the Genrai dynasty's greatest rival in establishing the Kamakura shogunate was not the emperor, but the Heijia regime, which was also a samurai.
In the first year of Heiji (1159), Hei Kiyomori destroyed the main political enemy Genji Dynasty (the father of the Genrai Dynasty) through the "Heiji Rebellion", and controlled the supreme power of the Japanese imperial court. From then until the establishment of the Kamakura shogunate, Japan was under the rule of the Hei family regime established by Hei Kiyomori. So a question arises: Hei Kiyomori and Genrai Dynasty, who were the first samurai leaders to rule Japan?
The samurai of Japan, whose original name was "Takeshi", were originally servants who guarded the homes and homes of the imperial court nobles and fought for power and profit. In the middle of the Heian period, samurai gradually took de facto control of the estates under the nobility of the imperial court, and gradually developed into an independent social class. In the third year of Yingde (1086), Emperor Shirakawa relied on the northern samurai to open the "court government", marking the official entry of the samurai class on the historical stage.
Because the "court administration" was run by relying on the samurai class, the "court administration era" became an era of rapid development of the samurai class. By the end of the Heian period, the samurai were strong enough to determine the sovereignty of Japan. The "Heiji Rebellion" was a conflict between Hira-Kiyomori and the Genyoshi Dynasty over the spokesman of the Japanese samurai class (the leader of the samurai), and the victorious Hira-Kiyomori became the leader of the samurai.
Hirai Kiyomori, who became the leader of the samurai, relied on the power of the samurai class to establish the Heike regime, becoming the de facto supreme ruler of Japan, and was the first samurai leader to rule Japan. However, the Hei Kiyomori Heike regime had a flaw that led to its demise: Hirai Kiyomori did not establish a system of power that met the interests of the samurai class, but made the Heike family a second "regent pass".
Although Hei Kiyomori was the leader of the samurai who ruled Japan, the Heike regime he established was only a change in the court of the ruling family, and the samurai class was still oppressed by the imperial court. After the death of Hei Kiyomori, the Hei family basically lost the support of the samurai class. Because of this, the samurai class (especially the most oppressed samurai of Bandong) eventually chose to abandon the Hei family and support the Genrai dynasty in favor of the Genrai dynasty.
Because of the lessons of Hei Kiyomori, the Genrai Dynasty established another regime system that met the interests of the samurai class and elevated the entire imperial court, which was the first samurai regime in Japanese history, the Kamakura shogunate. On the whole, the first samurai leader to rule Japan should be Hei Kiyomori, but the honor of the first person in the samurai regime in Japan still belongs to the Genrai Dynasty.