Thus Yoritomo and Kanezane agreed to wait for the Emperor's death, when the Cloistered Emperor died in March 1192 at the age of 66, Yoritomo became a seii taishogun and started the Kamakura bakufu (Japanese feudal government headed by a Shogun) in July.
そのため頼朝と兼実は法皇の死を待つことで一致し、建久3年（1192年）3月に法皇が66歳で死去すると、頼朝は7月に征夷大将軍を拝命、鎌倉幕府を開いた。