Hōjō Tokiuji

Hōjō Tokiuji (1203–1230) was the eldest son of the shikken Yasutoki. At eighteen he fought in the Jōkyū War of 1221, distinguishing himself by fording the Uji River under court-army fire in the battle that opened Kyoto to the bakufu. In 1224 he was appointed Rokuhara tandai and became shugo of Wakasa in 1228.

A quarrel between his retainer and Enryaku-ji monks in 1229 led to his recall. He died in Kamakura in 1230, aged twenty-eight, before his father; his sons Tsunetoki and Tokiyori later became shikken.