Of Chomei's life a few sentences suffice to tell you all. He lived in the latter half of the twelfth century, and was the son of the rector of the Kamo temple in Yamashiro. His solicitations to succeed to his father's position being refused, he shaved his head in vexation and retired to the sequestered village of Ohara. At the invitation by Sanetomo, he went to Kamakura and was a guest of that prince for a time. He spent in seclusion the remainder of his life in Toyama.