Prince Hisaaki

8th shōgun of the Kamakura shogunate of Japan
Prince Hisaaki
久明親王
Shōgun
In office1289 – 1308
PredecessorPrince Koreyasu
SuccessorPrince Morikuni
MonarchFushimi
Go-Fushimi
Go-Nijō
ShikkenHōjō Sadatoki
Hōjō Morotoki
Born19 October 1276
Heian-kyō, Japan
Died16 November 1328(1328-11-16) (aged 52)
Heian-kyō, Japan
Spousesdaughter of Prince Koreyasu
daughter of Reizei Tamesuke
IssuePrince Morikuni
Prince Hisanaga
Prince Hisaaki
Shōe
FatherEmperor Go-Fukakusa
MotherSanjō Fusako
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Prince Hisaaki (久明親王, Hisaaki Shinnō, October 19, 1276 – November 16, 1328; r. 1289–1308), also known as Prince Hisaakira, was the 8th shōgun of the Kamakura shogunate of Japan.[1]

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 Emperor Go-Fukakusa and the younger half-brother of Emperor Fushimi.[2]

Family

  • Father: Emperor Go-Fukakusa
  • Mother: Fujiwara no Fusako
  • Adopted Father: Prince Koreyasu
  • Wife: daughter of Prince Koreyasu (d. 1306)
  • Concubine: Reizei no Tsubone
  • Children:

Eras of Hisaaki's bakufu

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

  • Shōō (1288–1293)
  • Einin (1293–1299)
  • Shōan (1299–1302)
  • Kengen (1302–1303)
  • Kagen (1303–1306)
  • Tokuji (1306–1308)
  • Enkyō (1308–1311)

Notes

  1. ^ Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "Hisaakira Shinnō" in Japan Encyclopedia, p. 321, p. 3210, at Google Books.
  2. ^ Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). Annales des empereurs du japon, p. 270., p. 270, at Google Books

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

1289–1308
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