Prince Morikuni

Template:Short description Template:Refimprove Template:Infobox royalty Template:Nihongo was the ninth and last shōgun of the Kamakura shogunate of Japan.<ref>Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "Morikuni Shinnō" in Template:Google books.</ref>

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 and tokusō of Hōjō clan (de facto ruler of Japan).<ref>Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). Template:Google books</ref> 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 short-lived 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.<ref>Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). Template:Google books</ref>

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)

References

• Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric and Käthe Roth. (2005). Japan encyclopedia. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. Template:ISBN; 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.