was the post of the chiefs of the Kamakura shogunate

Kamakura shogunate

The Kamakura shogunate was a military dictatorship in Japan headed by the shoguns from 1185 to 1333. It was based in Kamakura. The Kamakura period draws its name from the capital of the shogunate...

 in Kyoto

Kyoto

is a city in the central part of the island of Honshū, Japan. It has a population close to 1.5 million. Formerly the imperial capital of Japan, it is now the capital of Kyoto Prefecture, as well as a major part of the Osaka-Kobe-Kyoto metropolitan area.-History:...

 whose agency kept responsibility for security in Kinai

Kinai

is a Japanese term denoting an ancient division of the country. Kinai is a name for the ancient provinces around the capital Nara and Heian-kyō. The five provinces were called go-kinai after 1760....

 and judicial affairs on western Japan

Japan

Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

, and negotiated with the imperial court

Imperial Court in Kyoto

thumb|left|350px|Front view of Kyoto imperial palaceImperial Court in Kyoto was the nominal ruling government of Japan from 794 AD until the Meiji Era, in which the court was moved to Tokyo and integrated into the Meiji government....

. Despite keeping security, they were also a sort of secret police and widely feared.

Rokuhara Tandai was set up after the Jōkyū Incident

Jokyu War

', also known as the Jōkyū Disturbance or the Jōkyū Rebellion, was fought in Japan between the forces of Retired Emperor Go-Toba and those of the Hōjō clan, regents of the Kamakura shogunate, whom the retired emperor was trying to overthrow....

 in 1221. The two chiefs were called Kitakata (北方) and Minamikata (南方). Kitakata was higher-ranking than Minamikata. Like shikken

Shikken

The was the regent for the shogun in the Kamakura shogunate in Japan. The post was monopolized by the Hōjō clan, and this system only existed once in Japanese history, between 1203 and 1333...

and rensho

Rensho

The , literally “co-signatory”, was the assistant to the shikken of the Kamakura shogunate in Japan.The rensho placed his signature next to that of the shikken on official orders. In 1224 the third shikken Hōjō Yasutoki appointed Hōjō Tokifusa as the first rensho...

, both posts were monopolized by the Hōjō clan

Hojo clan

See the late Hōjō clan for the Hōjō clan of the Sengoku Period.The in the history of Japan was a family who controlled the hereditary title of shikken of the Kamakura Shogunate. In practice, the family had actual governmental power, many times dictatorial, rather than Kamakura shoguns, or the...

. The agency was destroyed with the fall of Kamakura shogunate

Siege of Kamakura (1333)

The 1333 siege of Kamakura was a battle of the Genkō War, and marked the end of the power of the Hōjō clan, which had dominated the regency of the Kamakura shogunate for over a century...

 in 1333.

Kitakata

1. Hōjō Yasutoki
   Hojo Yasutoki
   Hōjō Yasutoki was the third shikken of the Kamakura shogunate in Japan. He strengthened the political system of the Hōjō regency.He was the eldest son of second shikken Yoshitoki...
   
    (r. 1221-1224)
2. Hōjō Tokiuji
   Hojo Tokiuji
   was a son of Yasutoki and the father of Tsunetoki and Tokiyori.Tokiuji was expected to be the future shikken by his father, but he lost his health while he served as the Rokuhara Tandai in Kyoto....
   
    (r. 1224-1230)
3. Hōjō Shigetoki
   Hojo Shigetoki
   Note:There were other Hojo Shigetoki within the ruling family, but with different characters. was a Japanese samurai of the Kamakura period. He was the third Kitakata Rokuhara tandai, serving from 1230 to 1247. He was also known as . His writings influenced later samurai...
   
    (r. 1230-1247)
4. Hōjō Nagatoki
   Hojo Nagatoki
   Hōjō Nagatoki 北条 長時 was the sixth Shikken of the Kamakura Bakufu and the 4th Chief of the Rokuhara Tandai North Branch Kitakata....
   
    (r. 1247-1256)
5. Hōjō Tokimochi (r. 1256-1270)
6. Hōjō Yoshimune (r. 1271-1276)
7. Hōjō Tokimura (r. 1277-1287)
8. Hōjō Kanetoki (r. 1287-1293)
9. Hōjō Hisatoki (r. 1293-1297)
10. Hōjō Munekata (r. 1297-1300)
11. Hōjō Mototoki
    Hojo Mototoki
    was the thirteenth Shikken of the Kamakura Bakufu....
    
     (r. 1301-1303)
12. Hōjō Tokinori (r. 1303-1307)
13. Hōjō Sadaaki (r. 1311-1314)
14. Hōjō Tokiatsu (r. 1315-1320)
15. Hōjō Norisada (r. 1321-1330)
16. Hōjō Nakatoki (r. 1330-1333)

Minamikata

1. Hōjō Tokifusa
   Hojo Tokifusa
   was a member of Japan's Hōjō clan of nobles and courtiers; the brother of Hōjō Yoshitoki, shogunal regent, Tokifusa was appointed to the Kyoto-based government post of Rokuhara Tandai upon its creation in 1221, following the Jōkyū War...
   
    (r. 1221-1225)
2. Hōjō Tokimori (r. 1224-1242)
3. Hōjō Tokisuke (r. 1264-1272)
4. Hōjō Tokikuni (r. 1277-1284)
5. Hōjō Kanetoki (r. 1284-1287)
6. Hōjō Morifusa (r. 1288-1297)
7. Hōjō Munenobu
   Hojo Munenobu
   , also family name Osaragi was the eleventh Shikken of the Kamakura Bakufu....
   
    (r. 1297-1302)
8. Hōjō Sadaaki (r. 1302-1308)
9. Hōjō Sadafusa (r. 1308-1309)
10. Hōjō Tokiatsu (r. 1311-1315)
11. Hōjō Koresada (r. 1315-1324)
12. Hōjō Sadayuki (r. 1324-1330)
13. Hōjō Tokimasu (r. 1330-1333)