Moriyoshi

Prince Moriyoshi

Prince Moriyoshi ( Japanese 護 良 親王 , Moriyoshi-shinnō , also: Morinaga-shinnō ; * 1308 ; † 1335 ) was a politically active imperial prince at the end of the Kamakura period .

Live and act

Moriyoshi was the son of Emperor Go-Daigo and Minamoto Shinshi / Chikako, the daughter of Minamoto Morochika. After the death of Crown Prince Kuninaga, Go-Daigo thought of taking Moriyoshi in his place. But Hōjō Takatoki ( 北 条 高 時 ; 1303-1333) was against and instead campaigned in 1326 for Prince Kazuhito, the son of Emperor Go-Fushimi . Then Moriyoshi became a monk and called himself Son'un ( 尊 雲 ). The following year he became high priest of the monastery at Hiei-zan .

Moriyoshi settled in the village Ōtō ( 大 塔 ) in the province of Yamato , so that he was called Prince Ōtō (Ōtō no miya). In 1331, when Takatoki marched on Kyōto to depose Emperor Go-Daigo, Son-un and his brother Sonchō (Prince Munenaga) sat at the head of the troops that the monks had raised to stop the advance. However, they were beaten and So-un went into hiding in the Kumano area, south of Kii province . He took off his priestly robe, called himself Moriyoshi again, and gathered troops around him to support his father.

After the fall of the Hōjō in 1333, Moriyoshi was appointed Seii Taishōgun , but the following year he was dismissed on account of defamation and set in the Nikaidō of Kamakura under the supervision of Ashikaga Tadayoshi . 1335 attacked Hōjō Tokiyuki ( 北 条 時 行 ; 1322-1353) Kamakura, Tadayoshi was beaten and fled. Before fleeing, however, he had Moriyoshi killed by his minister Fuchibe Yohihiro ( 淵 辺 義 博 ).

literature

• Iwanami Shoten (Ed.): Kōjien , 3rd edition, Iwanami, 1983.
• Papinot, Edmond: Historical and Geographical Dictionary of Japan. Reprinted by Tuttle, 1972 edition of 1910 edition. ISBN 0-8048-0996-8 .