Prince Munetaka

Prince Munetaka (宗尊親王) (December 15, 1242 – September 2, 1274) was the sixth shogun of the Kamakura shogunate of Japan who reigned from 1252 to 1266.^[1]

He was the first son of the Emperor Go-Saga and replaced the deposed Fujiwara no Yoritsugu as shogun at the age of ten. He was a puppet ruler controlled by the Hōjō clan regents.

• 1252 (Kenchō 4, 2nd month): Hōjō Tokiyori and Hōjō Shigetoki sent a representative to Kyoto to accompany Munetaka to Kamakura where he would be installed as shogun.^[2]
• 1266 (Bun'ei 3, 7th month): Munetaka was deposed, and his son Koreyasu was installed as the 7th shogun at the age of two.^[3]

The deposed shogun became a Buddhist monk in 1272. His priestly name was Gyōshō.^[1] He was a writer of Waka poetry.

Family

• Father: Emperor Go-Saga
• Mother: Taira no Muneko (d.1302)
• Wife: Konoe Saiko (b.1241)
• Concubine: Horikawa no Tsubone
• Children:
  • Prince Koreyasu by Saiko
  • Mizuko-joo (1272-1393) become Emperor Go-Uda's consort by Horikawa
  • a daughter become Emperor Go-Uda's consort by Saiko
  • Prince Sukeyasu by Horikawa

Eras of Munetaka's bakufu

The years in which Munetaka was shogun are more specifically identified by more than one era name or nengō.

• Kenchō (1249–1257)
• Kōgen (1256–1257)
• Shōka (1257–1259)
• Shōgen (1259–1260)
• Bun'ō (1260–1261)
• Kōchō (1261–1264)
• Bun'ei (1264–1275)

Notes

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