Kitabatake Chikafusa

Kitabatake Chikafusa, ink drawing by Kikuchi Yōsai from the series Zenken Kojitsu

Kitabatake Chikafusa ( Japanese 北 畠 親 房 ; * March 8, 1293 ; † June 1, 1354 in Anō , Yamato Province (today: Nishiyoshino , Gojō , Nara Prefecture )) was a Japanese statesman, general and historiographer.

The son of Kitabatake Moroshige belonged to the Murakami Genji through the Nakanoin and enjoyed the trust of Tennō Go-Daigo at an early stage , who appointed him Kebiishi no bettō , 1319 Gon- Chūnagon , and 1323 Dainagon , as well as the tutor of his son and Successor Go-Murakami made. Along with Yoshida Sadafusa and Made no Kōji Nobufusa , he became one of the emperor's three Gosanbō .

After the second son of Go-Daigo and Ichijō no tsubones , Prince Yoyoshi, whose upbringing he had also been entrusted with, died prematurely, Kitabatake became a Buddhist monk in 1330 and took the name Sōgen (later Kakkū ).

During the Kemmu restoration , Chikafusa and his son, the Chinjufu Shogun Kitabatake Akiie , sided with Go-Daigo. He was installed as governor ( kami ) of Mutsu province and won a victory over the army of Ashikaga Takauji near Kyoto. After Ashikaga Takauji became Shogun, Chikafusa had to flee to Yoshino.

Here he wrote his historical work Jinnō-shōtō-ki , a story of the age of gods and human emperors, as well as the Shokugenshō for the twelve-year-old Prince Noriyoshi as the first advisor to the South Court . He held his position at the South Court until his death and wrote the writings Gengenshū , Nijūichishaki and Shingon naishōgi during this time .

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• Encyclopedia Britannica: Kitabatake Chikafusa
• Yonei Teruyoshi:  "Kitabatake Chikafusa" . In: Encyclopedia of Shinto. Kokugaku-in , April 12, 2006 (English)
• Samurai Archives - Kitabatake Chikafusa
• Roland Harweg: Time in Myth and History. Worldwide investigations into mythographic and historiographic chronography from ancient times to the present . Third volume: Chronography in the Orient from ancient times to the present. LIT, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-8258-1576-9 , pp. 280 ff . ( limited preview in Google Book search).
• Haruo Shirane (Ed.): Traditional Japanese Literature: An Anthology, Beginnings to 1600 . Columbia University Press, 2007, ISBN 978-0-231-13697-6 , pp. 851 ff . ( limited preview in Google Book search).

Japanese name: As is common in Japan, the family name comes before the first name in this article . Thus Kitabatake is the family name, Chikafusa the first name.