Prince Morikuni

 ( 1301 Births ) 

extra=19 June 1301 – 25 September 1333; r. 1308–1333 was the ninth and last shōgun of the Kamakura shogunate of Japan.Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "Morikuni Shinnō" in .

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).Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). 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.

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Eras of Morikuni's bakufu The years in which Morikuni was shōgun are more specifically identified by more than one era name or nengō.Titsingh, Isaac. (1834).

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)

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Notes

• Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric and Käthe Roth. (2005). Japan encyclopedia. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. ; OCLC 58053128
• Isaac Titsingh. (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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