Biographies CX: The Shōguns, Part V

Imperial Prince Munetaka

¶Imperial Prince Munetaka was the second son of Emperor Go-Saga (Note: following the Godai Teiō Monogatari and the Masukagami. The Rekidai Kōki and the Azuma Kagami make him the first son, but this is probably an error. Details are given in the "Biographies of Imperial Princes"). In the first month of the second year of Kangen (1244) he was made an Imperial Prince (Note: following the Hyakurenshō, the Rekidai Kōki, and the Shōgun Shikken Shidai). Because his mother was of low standing he could not become Crown Prince, but the emperor pitied him on that account (Note: following the Masukagami). In the first month of the fourth year of Kenchō (1252), the rite of capping, his coming of age, was held at the residence of the Retired Emperor, and he was granted Third Rank. In the second month, Hōjō Tokiyori requested that the Seii Taishōgun, Fujiwara-no-Yoritsugu, be deposed, and that Munetaka be received in his place so that Kamakura might be pacified. The Retired Emperor granted the request (Note: following the Masukagami and the Azuma Kagami). In the third month he was permitted to wear a sword at his side (Note: following the Hyakurenshō; the Azuma Kagami was also consulted). In the fourth month he arrived at Kamakura and became Seii Taishōgun (Note: following the Ichidai Yōki, the Hyakurenshō, the Teiō Hennenki, and the Azuma Kagami. The Masukagami gives the second month, and the Shōgun Shikken Shidai gives the third). Tokiyori rebuilt the residence, and the reverence with which the shōgun was served far surpassed that shown to his predecessor (Note: following the Masukagami and the Azuma Kagami). In this month the Hikitsuke, the Board of Coadjutors, was increased from two divisions to five. Nikaidō Yukimori and Akita Yoshikage, who also served as Hyōjōshū, Councillors of State, became heads of the Board (Note: following the Azuma Kagami and the Kantō Hyōjōden). In the ninth month, because of drought, the buying and selling of sake was forbidden in Kamakura and in the provinces, and the sake jars and urns were ordered overturned and smashed. In the tenth month the following laws were promulgated: "Those who abduct sons or daughters, or steal oxen or horses, shall on a third offense have their punishment extend to their wives and children. Arson shall be punished as robbery is. In cases of killing or wounding, only the offender himself shall be arrested. Theft, however slight, shall be punished at the second offense. One who commits adultery with another man's wife shall make atonement by paying a sum of money."

¶In the tenth month of the fifth year of Kangen (1247), prices were fixed for firewood, charcoal, rice husks, and bran, and forced hoarding was forbidden. The taxes levied by the jitō, the estate stewards, of the western provinces mostly failed to follow the original regulations and encroached upon and squeezed the common people, so Rokuhara was ordered to prohibit this. In the fourth month of the sixth year of Kangen (1248) it was decreed that the number of ships sent to Song be limited to five. In the twelfth month, except for the great lords among the Hyōjōshū, the retainers of others were forbidden to ride, and the number of attendants was ordered reduced (Note: following the Azuma Kagami). In the third month of the first year of Kōgen (1256), Hōjō Shigetoki, the Rensho, Co-signatory, retired. Hōjō Nagatoki, of Northern Rokuhara, also retired, and Hōjō Masamura became Rensho (Note: following the Azuma Kagami and the Kantō Hyōjōden). In the fourth month Hōjō Tokishige was made head of Northern Rokuhara. In the sixth month, because bandits had earlier risen in Shimotsuke and Mutsu, attacking travelers and plundering them, the jitō of both provinces were ordered: "Station soldiers wherever needed, to guard against sudden attack. Any who neglect their policing and let the bandits go shall have their lands confiscated" (Note: following the Azuma Kagami). In the eleventh month the Shikken, Regent, Hōjō Tokiyori, resigned, and Hōjō Nagatoki took over the duties of the Shikken (Note: following the Azuma Kagami and the Kantō Hyōjōden).

¶In the twelfth month of the first year of Shōka (1257) the Hisashishū, the Corridor Guard, was established; more than fifty warriors were chosen to take turns standing night watch at the shogunate, and six court officials, among them Fujiwara-no-Yoshikiyo, Lesser Captain of the Left Palace Guards, and Fujiwara-no-Masaari, Chamberlain, were made heads of the watches. Earlier there had been a worry that this might be mistaken for the guarding of the Retired Emperor's residence, and an envoy had been sent to the capital to seek permission. The court granted it and bestowed a letter under the imperial hand. In the ninth month of the second year of Shōka (1258), bandits rose in the provinces and ravaged one place after another. The military governors of the provinces were ordered to seize them. In the first month of the first year of Bun'ō (1260), the Sōchūban, the Early Day Watch, was established, and young men skilled in waka, kemari football, music, calligraphy, archery, and horsemanship were assigned to it. In the second month, because the monks of Enryakuji plotted to burn Onjōji, soldiers were sent to Rokuhara to stand guard. In the twelfth month, the gokenin who entered the capital to guard the city were made to bear their own travel expenses, and the common people lamented and resented it. A law was therefore issued ordering that three hundred mon in cash be levied for each tan of rice field, and that for every five chō one official horse and two porters be provided.

¶In the second year of Kōchō (1262), the stations had earlier each been assigned two express horses for urgent dispatches, but warriors arriving at Kamakura had been giving false orders and using them at will, sometimes drawing several horses at once. Rokuhara was therefore ordered: "Do not send out express horses carelessly unless there is some emergency. Further, warriors are forbidden to use porters to carry their private belongings. At the same time, station masters are to be given their daily provisions." To the shrines and temples of the Kantō provinces it was ordered: "Do not neglect the rites; carry out repairs in due season. Mend the bridges and sweep the streets." It was also forbidden for the houses of warriors and the number of their attendants to exceed the limits, for monks to go about the city with their heads wrapped in cloth, for nenbutsu monks to hold gatherings of women, and for the sick, orphans, and corpses to be abandoned on the roads (Note: following the Azuma Kagami). In the third month, because lawsuits were backed up, the members of the Hikitsuke were summoned and reprimanded, and the Hyōjōshū and the Hikitsuke members were made to submit written oaths (Note: following the Azuma Kagami and the Kantō Hyōjōden). In the sixth month, Ryōken, a son of Miura Yoshimura who had become a monk, plotted rebellion, and was seized and killed (Note: the source writes the first character of Miura with a variant form; Miura is evidently meant. Following the Azuma Kagami and the Hōryaku Kanki). In the sixth month of the second year of Kōchō, the members of the Hikitsuke were reduced to three divisions (Note: following the Kantō Hyōjōden). In the sixth month of the third year of Kōchō (1263) he heard lectures on the Teihan, the Emperor's Model. In the eighth month he read the Shinki, the Rules for Ministers. In the ninth month the use of kirisen, broken coins, among the people was forbidden. In the eleventh month Hōjō Tokiyori died. In this year, when he was about to go to the capital to attend at court, he sent orders in advance to the provinces: "Levy two porters and one post horse for every five chō of rice field, and one hundred mon in cash for every tan." A great wind then spoiled the grain, so the plan was dropped and only the cash levy was imposed (Note: following the Azuma Kagami).

¶In the seventh month of the first year of Bun'ei (1264), Hōjō Nagatoki retired. In the eighth month Hōjō Masamura took over the duties of the Shikken. Hōjō Tokimune became Rensho, and Hōjō Tokisuke was made head of Southern Rokuhara (Note: following the Shōgun Shikken Shidai and the Teiō Hennenki). In the tenth month Hōjō Sanetoki and Adachi Yasumori were made Ossobugyō, Magistrates for Appeals (Note: following the Kantō Hyōjōden. The circumstances of the establishment and abolition of the Ossobugyō cannot be verified). In the ninth month of the second year of Bun'ei (1265) he was made Nakatsukasa-kyō, Minister of Central Affairs, and granted First Rank (Note: following the Shōgun Shikken Shidai and the Teiō Hennenki). In the third month of the third year of Bun'ei (1266) the Hikitsuke was abolished, and it was decided that the Monchūjo, the Board of Inquiry, would adjudicate lawsuits (Note: the Azuma Kagami and the Kantō Hyōjōden were consulted). In the sixth month, the Sōjō, Senior Prelate, Ryōki and the Hōin, Dharma Seal, Gon'e, who had long been close to Munetaka, secretly plotted with their followers to destroy the Hōjō. Munetaka knew nothing of it. Now the affair came to light (Note: the Azuma Kagami, the Masukagami, the Kantō Hyōjōden, and the Hōryaku Kanki were consulted), and Ryōki fled to Kōyasan and died there, refusing food (Note: following the Hōryaku Kanki and the Kantō Hyōjōden). Gon'e escaped (Note: following the Azuma Kagami and the Kantō Hyōjōden). Tokimune and Masamura sent Munetaka back to the capital and had him live in the residence of Northern Rokuhara, and they set up his son Koreyasu as shōgun (Note: the Azuma Kagami, the Masukagami, and the Godai Teiō Monogatari were consulted). The Retired Emperor sent Fujiwara-no-Tsunetō, Sashōben, Lesser Controller of the Left, to sound out the true intentions of the Hōjō, and was relieved to learn that they harbored no other design. Munetaka was thus able to move to the old Tsuchimikado palace of Shōmeimon'in, where he met for the first time the Retired Emperor and his mother, who held the rank of Jusangū, Associate of the Three Empresses (Note: the Masukagami and the Godai Teiō Monogatari were consulted).

¶Munetaka afterward went to the Ukon-no-Baba, the riding ground of the Right Palace Guards, to view the snow, and composed a poem. In it he sang that at the dawn light over the snow of Kitano he still clung to hope, yet felt himself buried, like the snow, beneath events that left no trace (Note: following the Masukagami). In the second month of the ninth year of Bun'ei (1272) he shaved his head and took the name Gyōshō (Note: following the Shōgun Shikken Shidai. The Teiō Hennenki gives Gyōshō in a different writing, and the Kōin Shōunroku gives Kakue). In the seventh month of the eleventh year of Bun'ei (1274) he died, at the age of thirty-three (Note: following the Rekidai Kōki, the Teiō Hennenki, and the Shōgun Shikken Shidai. The Kōin Shōunroku gives thirty-two, but this is an error). Munetaka excelled at waka (Note: following the Masukagami) and took Fujiwara-no-Tameie, Gon-Dainagon, Provisional Great Counsellor, as his teacher (Note: following the Azuma Kagami). He left a work, the Keigyokushū, in ten volumes (Note: following the postscript of the Keigyokushū). He had two sons. The elder was Koreyasu. The younger was Shinkaku, who became a monk and rose to Gon-Sōjō, Provisional Senior Prelate (Note: following the Kōin Shōunroku and the Ichidai Yōki). Shinkaku later put up his hair and returned to lay life, and had one daughter, whom he sent into the palace of Emperor Go-Daigo. The emperor bestowed this daughter on Enya Takasada (Note: following the Shomonzeki-fu; the Taiheiki was consulted). Munetaka's two daughters were Imperial Princess Rinshi, the elder, and Imperial Princess Zuishi, the younger, and both entered the palace of Emperor Go-Uda (Note: following the Masukagami).

Imperial Prince Koreyasu

¶In the seventh month of the third year of Bun'ei (1266), Imperial Prince Koreyasu, put forward by Hōjō Tokimune and others, succeeded to his father's post, was granted Junior Fourth Rank Lower, and became Seii Taishōgun (Note: following the Kugyō Bunin and the Masukagami). He was then three years old (Note: following the Masukagami, the Godai Teiō Monogatari, and the Shōgun Shikken Shidai). In the third month of the fifth year of Bun'ei (1268), Hōjō Tokimune was made Shikken, and Hōjō Masamura again became Rensho (Note: following the Teiō Hennenki, the Kantō Hyōjōden, and the Shōgun Shikken Shidai). In the fourth month the Hikitsuke was restored to five divisions (Note: following the Kantō Hyōjōden). In the first month of the seventh year of Bun'ei (1270), Hōjō Tokishige of Northern Rokuhara died (Note: following the Teiō Hennenki and the Shōgun Shikken Shidai). In the twelfth month, by imperial edict, he was granted the surname Minamoto, advanced to Junior Third Rank, and became Sakonoe-no-chūjō, Middle Captain of the Left Palace Guards (Note: following the Kugyō Bunin, the Teiō Hennenki, and the Shōgun Shikken Shidai). In the second month of the eighth year of Bun'ei (1271) he concurrently became Owari-no-kami, Governor of Owari (Note: following the Kugyō Bunin. The Shōgun Shikken Shidai gives the third month, but this is an error). In the first month of the ninth year of Bun'ei (1272) he was advanced to Junior Second Rank (Note: following the Kugyō Bunin, the Teiō Hennenki, and the Shōgun Shikken Shidai). In the second month, because Hōjō Tokisuke rebelled, Hōjō Yoshimune was sent and destroyed him (Note: following the Teiō Hennenki and the Godai Teiō Monogatari). In the fifth month of the tenth year of Bun'ei (1273), Hōjō Masamura, the Rensho, retired. In the sixth month Hōjō Yoshimasa was made Rensho (Note: following the Teiō Hennenki, the Kantō Hyōjōden, and the Shōgun Shikken Shidai).

¶In the ninth month of the first year of Kenji (1275), Du Shizhong and the other envoys of the Yuan were beheaded at Kamakura, and the following law was issued: "Both public and private, economize expenditures; let the people rest, and put the savings toward military costs. Halt the soldiers of the Ōban service in the capital, and send the soldiers stationed in the capital to the provinces of Chinzei, to prepare against a Yuan invasion" (Note: following the Kantō Hyōjōden). In the eleventh month the Kyūshū Tandai, Commissioner of Kyūshū, was established for the first time. Hōjō Sanemasa was appointed to it and made to guard against the Yuan army (Note: following the Teiō Hennenki. The Taiheiki says the Chinzei Tandai was first established in the first year of Einin, but this is an error). In the twelfth month Hōjō Tokikuni was made head of Southern Rokuhara (Note: following the Teiō Hennenki and the Heishi Keizu. The Shōgun Shikken Shidai gives the twelfth month of the third year of Kenji). In the first month of the second year of Kenji (1276) he concurrently became Sanuki-no-gon-no-kami, Provisional Governor of Sanuki (Note: following the Kugyō Bunin and the Shōgun Shikken Shidai). In the twelfth month Hōjō Yoshimune of Northern Rokuhara retired (Note: following the Teiō Hennenki and the Shōgun Shikken Shidai). In the fourth month of the third year of Kenji (1277), Hōjō Yoshimasa, the Rensho, retired. In the twelfth month Hōjō Tokimura was made head of Northern Rokuhara (Note: following the Teiō Hennenki, the Kantō Hyōjōden, and the Shōgun Shikken Shidai).

¶In the first month of the second year of Kōan (1279) he was advanced to Senior Second Rank (Note: following the Kugyō Bunin and the Teiō Hennenki. The Shōgun Shikken Shidai gives the second month). In the fourth year of Kōan (1281) the army of the Yuan invaded, but it met a violent storm and its warships were all sunk. The remnants who had landed were struck down and destroyed by the soldiers of Chinzei (Note: the Kantō Hyōjōden and the Hachiman Gudōkun were consulted). In the fourth month of the sixth year of Kōan (1283), Hōjō Naritoki was made Rensho (Note: following the Teiō Hennenki and the Kantō Hyōjōden. The Shōgun Shikken Shidai gives the second month). In the tenth month Hōjō Sanemasa, the Kyūshū Tandai, was made guard of Nagato (Note: following the Teiō Hennenki). In the fourth month of the seventh year of Kōan (1284), Hōjō Tokimune, the Shikken, retired (Note: following the Kantō Hyōjōden and the Shōgun Shikken Shidai). In the sixth month Hōjō Tokikuni of Southern Rokuhara was exiled to Hitachi (Note: following the Shōgun Shikken Shidai). In the seventh month Hōjō Sadatoki was made Shikken (Note: following the Teiō Hennenki, the Kantō Hyōjōden, and the Shōgun Shikken Shidai). In the tenth month Tokikuni was killed (Note: following the Shōgun Shikken Shidai). In the twelfth month Hōjō Kanetoki was made head of Southern Rokuhara (Note: following the Teiō Hennenki and the Shōgun Shikken Shidai). In the eleventh month of the eighth year of Kōan (1285), Adachi Yasumori and his son Munekage were put to death (Note: following the Hōryaku Kanki and the Teiō Hennenki).

¶In the sixth month of the tenth year of Kōan (1287) he was appointed Chūnagon, Middle Counsellor, and concurrently became Ukonoe-no-taishō, Commander of the Right Palace Guards (Note: following the Kugyō Bunin and the Shōgun Shikken Shidai). Hōjō Naritoki, the Rensho, retired. In the eighth month Hōjō Tokimura of Northern Rokuhara retired, and Hōjō Nobutoki was made Rensho (Note: following the Teiō Hennenki and the Shōgun Shikken Shidai). In the tenth month he was made an Imperial Prince and granted Second Rank (Note: following the Kugyō Bunin and the Teiō Hennenki). In the second month of the first year of Shōō (1288), Hōjō Morifusa was made head of Southern Rokuhara and Hōjō Kanetoki head of Northern Rokuhara (Note: following the Shōgun Shikken Shidai). In the ninth month of the second year of Shōō (1289), Hōjō Sadatoki deposed Koreyasu and sent him back to the capital. When he set out, he arrived with his woven-bamboo carriage carried backward. The people of the time found this strange and said to one another, "The shōgun has been exiled to the capital" (Note: following the Masukagami. The month, the ninth, follows the Hōryaku Kanki). He lived at Saga. In the twelfth month he shaved his head (Note: the Masukagami and the Shōgun Shikken Shidai were consulted). In the tenth month of the first year of Karyaku (1326) he died (Note: following the Jōrakuki). He was sixty-three (Note: calculated from the Masukagami's statement that he was three when he became shōgun). His three sons all became monks. Ninchō became Daisōjō, Great Senior Prelate, Tendai Zasu, Abbot of the Tendai school, and Bettō, Superintendent, of Nikkōzan (Note: following the Kōin Shōunroku and the Sōkan Bunin. The Tendai Zasu-ki calls him a son of Imperial Prince Hisaaki, but this is an error). Zōe became Sōjō, Senior Prelate, and Zōchin became Daisōjō (Note: following the Shomonzeki-fu). One daughter married Imperial Prince Hisaaki (Note: following the Kōin Shōunroku, the Ichidai Yōki, and the Hōryaku Kanki. The various works differ in what they say of Koreyasu's children, and these differences are not noted one by one here).

Imperial Prince Hisaaki

¶Imperial Prince Hisaaki was the sixth son of Emperor Go-Fukakusa. In the second year of Shōō (1289), Hōjō Sadatoki deposed Imperial Prince Koreyasu and received Hisaaki as the leader at Kamakura (Note: following the Masukagami and the Hōryaku Kanki). In the tenth month he was made an Imperial Prince, granted Third Rank, and became Seii Taishōgun (Note: following the Teiō Hennenki and the Shōgun Shikken Shidai). In the eleventh month of the third year of Shōō (1290), a certain son of Hōjō Tokisuke rebelled together with Miura Yorimori, and they were put to death (Note: following the Hōryaku Kanki). In the first month of the first year of Einin (1293), Hōjō Kanetoki of Northern Rokuhara retired. In the third month Kanetoki was made Kyūshū Tandai, and Hōjō Hisatoki was made head of Northern Rokuhara (Note: following the Teiō Hennenki, the Shōgun Shikken Shidai, and the Heishi Keizu). In the seventh month Hōjō Tokiie was made Kyūshū Tandai (Note: following the Teiō Hennenki; the Heishi Keizu was consulted). In the fourth month of the third year of Einin (1295), Hōjō Kanetoki retired (Note: following the Teiō Hennenki. The Shōgun Shikken Shidai gives the sixth month, and the Heishi Keizu the third).

¶In the third month of the fourth year of Einin (1296), Yoshimi Yoshiharu plotted to raise troops, and was seized and killed (Note: following the Sonpi Bunmyaku). In the eleventh month Yoshiharu's son Yoshiyo was killed, and the monk Ryōki, one of his band, was sentenced to exile (Note: following the Hōryaku Kanki. The Shōgun Shikken Shidai gives the death of Yoshiyo as the third month of the fifth year of Einin). In this year Hōjō Sanemasa was once more made Kyūshū Tandai, and was made to decide the movements of the warriors as circumstances required (Note: following the Teiō Hennenki). In the fifth month of the fifth year of Einin (1297), Hōjō Morifusa of Southern Rokuhara retired (Note: following the Teiō Hennenki, the Shōgun Shikken Shidai, and the Heishi Keizu). In the sixth month Hōjō Hisatoki of Northern Rokuhara retired (Note: following the Teiō Hennenki and the Heishi Keizu. The Shōgun Shikken Shidai gives the fifth month), and Hōjō Munekata was appointed to the post. In the seventh month Hōjō Munenobu was made head of Southern Rokuhara (Note: following the Teiō Hennenki, the Shōgun Shikken Shidai, and the Heishi Keizu). In the twelfth month he was appointed Shikibu-kyō, Minister of Ceremonial, and advanced to First Rank (Note: following the Teiō Hennenki; the Masukagami and the Shōgun Shikken Shidai were consulted).

¶In the twelfth month of the second year of Shōan (1300), Hōjō Munekata of Northern Rokuhara retired. In the sixth month of the third year of Shōan (1301), Hōjō Mototoki took his place. In the eighth month Hōjō Sadatoki, the Shikken, retired, and Hōjō Morotoki took his place. Hōjō Nobutoki, the Rensho, retired, and Hōjō Tokimura took his place (Note: following the Teiō Hennenki and the Shōgun Shikken Shidai). In the ninth month Hōjō Sanemasa, the Kyūshū Tandai, retired. In the eleventh month Hōjō Masaakira took his place (Note: following the Teiō Hennenki). In the first month of the first year of Kengen (1302), Hōjō Munenobu of Southern Rokuhara retired. In the seventh month Kanazawa Sadaaki took his place (Note: following the Shōgun Shikken Shidai and the Heishi Keizu). In the tenth month of the second year of Kagen (1304), Hōjō Mototoki of Northern Rokuhara retired. In the eleventh month Hōjō Tokinori took his place (Note: following the Heishi Keizu; the Buke Bunin was consulted).

¶In the fourth month of the third year of Kagen (1305), Hōjō Munekata killed Hōjō Tokimura (Note: following the Hōryaku Kanki; the Shōgun Shikken Shidai was consulted). In the fifth month Munekata was seized and put to death (Note: following the Hōryaku Kanki. The Teiō Hennenki and the Heishi Keizu both give the fourth month). In the seventh month Hōjō Munenobu was made Rensho. In the eighth month of the second year of Tokuji (1307), Hōjō Tokinori of Northern Rokuhara died (Note: following the Shōgun Shikken Shidai and the Heishi Keizu). In the seventh month of the first year of Enkyō (1308), Hōjō Sadatoki deposed Hisaaki and put forward Hisaaki's eldest son, Prince Morikuni, as leader (Note: following the Shōgun Shikken Shidai and the Hōryaku Kanki). Hisaaki moved to Sasukegayatsu and before long returned to the capital (Note: following the Rekidai Kōki and the Shōgun Shikken Shidai). In the tenth month of the third year of Karyaku (1328) he died (Note: following the Kugyō Bunin, the Jōrakuki, and the Shōgun Shikken Shidai). He was fifty-three (Note: calculated from the Shōgun Shikken Shidai's statement that he was born in the second year of Kenji, and from the Rekidai Kōki's statement that he was thirteen in the second year of Shōō). He had two sons, Imperial Prince Morikuni and Imperial Prince Hisayoshi (Note: following the Kōin Shōunroku and the Sonpi Bunmyaku). In the third year of Karyaku, Hisayoshi was granted the surname Minamoto, became Ukonoe-no-chūjō, Middle Captain of the Right Palace Guards, and was granted Junior Third Rank. In the first year of Gentoku (1329) he was transferred to Sakonoe-no-chūjō, Middle Captain of the Left Palace Guards. In the second year of Gentoku (1330) he became an Imperial Prince. His son Muneakira served the Retired Emperor Kōmyō (Note: the Sonpi Bunmyaku says that Muneakira was in fact a son of the Kanpaku, Regent, Michihira, but that is not adopted here), was granted Junior Fourth Rank Lower, and was appointed Jijū, Chamberlain; later he rose to Junior First Rank and Gon-Dainagon, Provisional Great Counsellor (Note: following the Kugyō Bunin).

Imperial Prince Morikuni

¶Imperial Prince Morikuni was the eldest son of Imperial Prince Hisaaki (Note: following the Kōin Shōunroku). In the seventh month of the first year of Enkyō (1308), put forward by Hōjō Sadatoki, he became leader at Kamakura. He was then seven years old (Note: following the Shōgun Shikken Shidai. His age is reckoned back from the year of his death). In the eighth month he became Seii Taishōgun (Note: following the Rekidai Kōki and the Hōryaku Kanki). In the tenth month he was made an Imperial Prince (Note: following the Rekidai Kōki) and granted Third Rank (Note: following the Shōgun Shikken Shidai). Later he was advanced to Second Rank (Note: following the Kōin Shōunroku and the Ichidai Yōki). In the twelfth month Hōjō Sadafusa was made head of Northern Rokuhara (Note: following the Shōgun Shikken Shidai). In this year Kanazawa Sadaaki of Southern Rokuhara retired (Note: following the Heishi Keizu. The Shōgun Shikken Shidai says that he returned to Kamakura in the first month of the following year). In the eleventh month of the second year of Enkyō (1309), Hōjō Sadafusa of Northern Rokuhara died (Note: the Heishi Keizu gives the twelfth month). In the third year of Enkyō (1310), Kanazawa Sadaaki was made head of Northern Rokuhara (Note: following the Shōgun Shikken Shidai). In the seventh month Hōjō Tokiatsu was made head of Southern Rokuhara (Note: following the Heishi Keizu).

¶In the ninth month of the first year of Ōchō (1311), Hōjō Morotoki, the Shikken, died. In the tenth month Hōjō Hirotoki was made Rensho. In the sixth month of the first year of Shōwa (1312), Hōjō Munenobu, the Rensho, died (Note: following the Shōgun Shikken Shidai and the Heishi Keizu. The Shōgun Shikken Shidai says that Hōjō Tokiatsu was made head of Northern Rokuhara in this year, but that is for the most part an error). In the eleventh month of the third year of Shōwa (1314), Kanazawa Sadaaki of Northern Rokuhara retired (Note: the Shōgun Shikken Shidai and the Heishi Keizu were consulted). In the seventh month of the fourth year of Shōwa (1315), Hōjō Mototoki was made Shikken and Kanazawa Sadaaki was made Rensho. Hōjō Tokinori of Southern Rokuhara was moved to the northern post (Note: following the Shōgun Shikken Shidai and the Heishi Keizu). Hōjō Koresada was made head of Southern Rokuhara (Note: following the Shōgun Shikken Shidai). In the fifth year of Shōwa (1316), Hōjō Mototoki, the Shikken, retired, and Hōjō Takatoki took his place.

¶In the fifth month of the second year of Gen'ō (1320), Hōjō Tokiatsu of Northern Rokuhara died. In the eleventh month of the first year of Genkō (1321), Tokiwa Norisada took his place (Note: following the Shōgun Shikken Shidai and the Heishi Keizu). In this year Hōjō Hidetoki was made Kyūshū Tandai (Note: following the Buke Bunin. The year and month in which his predecessor, Masaaki, retired are not clear). In the eighth month of the first year of Shōchū (1324), Hōjō Koresada of Southern Rokuhara retired. In the eleventh month Kanazawa Sadayuki was made head of Southern Rokuhara (Note: following the Shōgun Shikken Shidai. The Heishi Keizu gives the ninth month of the first year of Karyaku). In the third month of the first year of Karyaku (1326), Hōjō Takatoki, the Shikken, retired (Note: following the Shōgun Shikken Shidai and the Heishi Keizu). In the fourth month Kanazawa Sadaaki, the Rensho, retired, Akahashi Moritoki was made Shikken, and Hōjō Koresada was made Rensho. In the ninth month of the second year of Karyaku (1327), Koresada died (Note: following the Shōgun Shikken Shidai).

¶In the intercalary sixth month of the second year of Gentoku (1330), Hōjō Shigetoki was made Rensho (Note: the Shōgun Shikken Shidai gives the seventh month). Kanazawa Sadayuki of Southern Rokuhara retired. In the eighth month Hōjō Tokimasu took his place (Note: the Shōgun Shikken Shidai gives the seventh month). In the eleventh month Tokiwa Norisada of Northern Rokuhara retired (Note: following the Heishi Keizu). In the twelfth month Hōjō Nakatoki took his place (Note: following the Shōgun Shikken Shidai and the Heishi Keizu). In the eighth month of the first year of Genkō (1331), Emperor Go-Daigo plotted to destroy the Hōjō. Takatoki dispatched commanders and sent troops intending to violate the palace, and the emperor secretly went by imperial progress to Kasagi. In the ninth month Takatoki sent out troops and took the temporary palace. In the third month of the second year of Genkō (1332) the emperor was moved to Oki. In the third month of the third year of Genkō (1333) the emperor went by imperial progress to Mount Senjō and commanded the four quarters by edict to strike Takatoki. In the fifth month the imperial army surrounded Rokuhara. Tokimasu and Nakatoki, escorting the Retired Emperor Kōgon, tried to flee east, but they took their own lives along the way. Nitta Yoshisada stormed Kamakura, and the Hōjō were destroyed (Note: following the Taiheiki and the Masukagami). Morikuni now shaved his head. In the eighth month he died, at the age of thirty-two (Note: following the Shōgun Shikken Shidai).