Prince Morikuni
Prince Morikuni (守邦親王, Morikuni Shinnō, 1301–1333; r. June 19, 1308 – September 25, 1333) was the ninth and last shōgun of the Kamakura shogunate of Japan.[1] 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).[2] 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. Eras of Morikuni's bakufuThe years in which Morikuni was shōgun are more specifically identified by more than one era name or nengō.[3]
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