執権は最有力御家人の代表13人で構成される合議制でした。
Shikken was the council system which consisted of the representatives of the 13 most powerful Gokenin.
ところが、執権の代表の中で最も有力で、長でもあった北条時政が独裁的に執権を将軍のような独任制に変え、後に初代執権となりました。
However, among the most powerful representative and also the head of Shikken, Tokimasa Hojo had arbitrarily made Shikken the independent system like Shogun, and he had later became the first Shikken.
北条時政の独裁政治は他の御家人に大変不評であったため、1205年に子の北条義時が北条時政を引退させ、2代執権となりました。
Because his dictatorship was so unpopular among other Gokenin, his son, Yoshitoki Hojo got him to retire in 1205, and he became the 2nd Shikken.
しかし、侍所の長で、幕府の実権を握っていた大変有力な御家人の和田義盛がいたため、北条義時は他の御家人を十分満足させる政治を存分に行うことはできませんでした。
However, as long as Yoshimori Wada, the head of Samurai Dokoro and also a very powerful Gokenin who had the actual control of Bakufu was still around, Yoshitoki Hojo to couldn’t fully exercise his political power to adequately satisfy other Gokenin.
そこで、北条義時は和田義盛を巧みに挑発して1213年に反乱を起こさせ、これを鎮圧することにより和田義盛を幕府から排することに成功しました。
So, cleverly provoking Yoshimori Wada to make him have a riot in 1213, he put it down and succeeded in purging him from Bakufu.
