Prince Morikuni

Japanese prince

Prince Morikuni (守邦親王, Morikuni Shinnō, 1301–1333; r. June 19, 1308 – September 25, 1333) was the ninth shōgun of the Kamakura shogunate of Japan.^[1]

He was a son of the eighth shōgun Prince Hisaaki and was a grandson of the Emperor Go-Fukakusa. He was also a puppet ruler controlled by Hōjō Takatoki, who was the Kamakura shogunate's shikken or chief minister.^[2] His mother was daughter of Prince Koreyasu who died in 1306.

After the collapse of the Kamakura bakufu, he became a Buddhist priest. He died shortly afterwards.

The Kamakura shogunate was succeeded by the Kenmu Restoration.

Eras of Morikuni's bakufu

The years in which Morikuni was shōgun are more specifically identified by more than one era name or nengō.^[3]

Pre-Nanboku-chō court

• Enkyō (1308–1311)
• Ōchō (1311–1312)
• Shōwa (1312–1317)
• Bunpō (1317–1319)
• Gen'ō (1319–1321)
• Genkō (1321–1324)
• Shōchū (1324–1326)
• Karyaku(1326–1329)
• Gentoku (1329–1331)
• Genkō (1331–1334)

Nanboku-chō southern court

• Eras as reckoned by legitimate Court (as determined by Meiji rescript)

Nanboku-chō northern Court

• Eras as reckoned by pretender Court (as determined by Meiji rescript)
  • Shōkei (1332–1338)

Notes

1. Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "Morikuni Shinnō" in Japan Encyclopedia, p. 660, p. 660, at Google Books.
2. Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). Annales des empereurs du japon, p. 281., p. 281, at Google Books
3. Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). Annales des empereurs du japon, pp. 278–300., p. 278, at Google Books

References

• Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric and Käthe Roth. (2005). Japan encyclopedia. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-01753-5; OCLC 58053128
• Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). Nihon Ōdai Ichiran; ou, Annales des empereurs du Japon. Paris: Royal Asiatic Society, Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain and Ireland. OCLC 5850691.