was the ninth and last ''

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'' of the

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. He was a son of the eighth ''shōgun''

Prince Hisaaki , also known as Prince Hisaakira, was the 8th '' shōgun'' of the Kamakura shogunate of Japan. He was the nominal ruler controlled by Hōjō clan regents. He was the father of his successor, Prince Morikuni. Prince Hisaaki was the son of Em ...

and was a grandson of the Emperor Go-Fukakusa. He was also a

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controlled by

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, who was the

's ''shikken'' or chief minister and ''

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of''

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(''de facto'' ruler of Japan). His mother was daughter of Prince Koreyasu who died in 1306. After the collapse of the Kamakura

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, he became a

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priest. He died shortly afterwards. The Kamakura shogunate was succeeded by the short-lived

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Eras of Morikuni's ''bakufu''

The years in which Morikuni was ''shōgun'' are more specifically identified by more than one

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or ''

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''.Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). :Pre''-Nanboku-chō'' court * '' Enkyō'' (1308–1311) * ''

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'' (1311–1312) * '' Shōwa'' (1312–1317) * '' Bunpō'' (1317–1319) * '' Gen'ō'' (1319–1321) * '' Genkō'' (1321–1324) * ''

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'' (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)

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References

* Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric and Käthe Roth. (2005)
''Japan encyclopedia''.
Cambridge:

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* Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). ''

Nihon Ōdai Ichiran , ', is a 17th-century chronicle of the serial reigns of Japanese emperors with brief notes about some of the noteworthy events or other happenings. According to the 1871 edition of the ''American Cyclopaedia'', the 1834 French translation of ...

''; ou
''Annales des empereurs du Japon''.
Paris: Royal Asiatic Society, Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain and Ireland
OCLC 5850691
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