Wada Yoshimori

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Wada Yoshimori (和田義盛, 11471213) was an early Kamakura period military commander. A gokenin of the Kamakura shogunate, he was the first director (別当 bettō) of the Samurai-dokoro.

He was a son of Miura Yoshiaki and a grandson of Sugimoto Yoshimune, making him a descendent of the heike. Some of his sons were Wada Yoshinao and Wada Yoshishige. He also had a nephew, Wada Tanenage.

He fought in the battles of Ichi-no-Tani (1184) and Dannoura (1185) and participated in the campaign against Kiso Yoshinaka (1184) and Fujiwara Yasuhira (1189).

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