Prince Morikuni


Prince Morikuni was the ninth shōgun of the Kamakura shogunate of Japan.
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. 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 Kenmu Restoration.

Eras of Morikuni's ''bakufu''

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