Imperial Princes XI

[Nijō] One Son

¶Emperor Nijō had two sons. A palace woman of the Iki clan bore Emperor Rokujō (Note: following the Kōin Shōunroku and the Rekidai Kōki). A woman of a certain clan bore the monk Son'e (Note: following the Kōin Shōunroku and the Ichidai Yōki).

The Monk Son'e

¶Son'e became an adopted son of Takamatsu-in. In the fourth year of Jōan (1174) he entered Onjōji (Note: following the Kikki) and became Gon-Daisōzu, Provisional Greater Bishop (Note: following the Ichidai Yōki). He had a reputation for the capacity of a true vessel of the Buddhist Law. In the fourth month of the third year of Kenkyū (1192) he died, at the age of twenty-nine. He was called Chiekō-in-no-Miya (Note: following the Meigetsuki). He was also called Koma-no-Miya (Note: following the Kōin Shōunroku. However, this book treats him as a Cloistered Imperial Prince, and since this does not appear in the various other books, it is not adopted here).

[Takakura] Two Sons

¶Emperor Takakura had four sons. Taira-no-Chūgū, the Taira Empress (Taira-no-Tokuko), bore Emperor Antoku (Note: following the Kōin Shōunroku and the Akihiro-ō-ki). The Naishi-no-suke, Assistant Handmaid, Fujiwara-no-Shokushi, bore the second son, the Retired Emperor Go-Takakura and Emperor Go-Toba (Note: following the Ichidai Yōki). A handmaid of the Taira clan bore the third son, Imperial Prince Koreakira (Note: following the Kōin Shōunroku and the Heike Monogatari; the mother's clan name follows the Shōunroku).

Retired Emperor Go-Takakura (Morisada)

¶The Retired Emperor Go-Takakura was named Morisada. He was born in the second month of the third year of Jishō (1179). Emperor Takakura ordered Taira-no-Tomomori to raise him (Note: following the Sankaiki. The Gukanshō says that Taira-no-Munemori raised him). In the second year of Juei (1183), when Taira-no-Munemori fled west with Emperor Antoku, he took Morisada along as well and intended him to be a stand-in for the Crown Prince (Note: following the Heike Monogatari and the Genpei Jōsuiki). When Emperor Antoku died, he returned to the capital and was brought up by Jōsaimon-in (Note: following the Gukanshō). In the fifth year of Bunji (1189) he became an Imperial Prince (Note: following the Nakasuke-ō-ki, the Kitsubu Hikunshō, and the Kō Nendai Ryakki). In the second year of Kenkyū (1191) he was granted Third Rank (Note: following the Kō Nendai Ryakki and the Kōin Shōunroku; some copies of the Shōunroku say Second Rank). Morisada constantly lamented his ill fortune; his residence fell into ruin, and he passed his days in gloom. Some time earlier, a waiting-woman had dreamed that a great crowd of people in court dress came and said, "Very soon the sword and the jewel will be moved to him. See that you serve him well." When she woke and told Morisada, he said, "There can be no such thing" (Note: following the Masukagami). In the second year of Kenryaku (1212) he at last shaved his head and took the name Gyōjo (Note: following the Ninnaji Nichiji-ki, the Kōin Shōunroku, and the Ichidai Yōki). In the sixth year of Kenpō (1218) he received the precepts at Tōdaiji (Note: following the Kō Nendai Ryakki). In the third year of Jōkyū (1221), Hōjō-no-Yoshitoki deposed Emperor Kujō (Emperor Chūkyō) and sent a man to Morisada to convey the intention that Emperor Go-Horikawa should ascend the throne. Morisada, who was in his Buddhist hall, heard this and said, "It would only happen to disturb my devotion to the Way," and would not agree. His consort Chinshi pleaded with him earnestly again and again, and at last he gave way, and Emperor Go-Horikawa took the throne. In the eighth month he was offered the honorific title of Daijō Hōō, Cloistered Retired Emperor, and was to take part in the myriad affairs of government (Note: following the Godai Teiō Monogatari; the eighth month follows the Hyakurenshō and the Kōin Shōunroku; the Kō Nendai Ryakki gives Daijō Tennō, Retired Emperor). That the title of Daijō Hōō was offered to one who had never taken the throne was a first (Note: following the Kō Nendai Ryakki and the Kōin Shōunroku). In the fifth month of the second year of Jōō (1223) he died (Note: following the Hyakurenshō, the Masukagami, and the Teiō Hennenki), at the age of forty-five (Note: following the Ichidai Yōki and the Shōun Yōryaku). He was buried at Kitashirakawa (Note: following the Hyakurenshō). He was called the Retired Emperor Go-Takakura (Note: following the Kōin Shōunroku, the Teiō Hennenki, and the Hyakurenshō). At first he took as his consort Chinshi, a daughter of Fujiwara-no-Motoie, posthumously Daijō-daijin, Chancellor (Note: some versions of the Hyakurenshō write Kanshi), and because he lived in Motoie's Jimyōin mansion he was called Jimyōin-no-Miya (Note: following the Kajūji Shoki Bassui and the Hyakurenshō; that he lived in Motoie's residence follows the Bassui), or alternatively the Jimyōin Hōō (Note: following the Teiō Hennenki), and he was also called Hirose-in (Note: following the Taiheiki). His consort Chinshi was granted Junior Third Rank when Emperor Go-Horikawa ascended the throne, was ranked as equal to a Sangū, the three Empresses, and took the title Kitashirakawa-in (Note: following the Rekidai Kōki, the Nyoin Shōden, and the records of the Ban and the Geki quoted in the Ingō Jō Burui-ki).

¶His three sons were Cloistered Imperial Prince Sonshō, Cloistered Imperial Prince Dōshin, and Emperor Go-Horikawa (Note: with reference to the Jinnō Shōtōki, the Teiō Hennenki, the Kō Nendai Ryakki, and the Kōin Shōunroku). His five daughters were Imperial Princess Rishi (Toshiko), Imperial Princess Kuniko, Imperial Princess Yoshiko, Imperial Princess Motoko, and Imperial Princess Ariko (Note: following the Kōin Shōunroku). Cloistered Imperial Prince Sonshō lived at Myōhōin (Note: following the Tendai Zasu-ki). In the third year of Jōgen (1209) he became Isshin Ajari and Gon-Daisōzu. In the second year of Jōkyū (1220) he was appointed Gon-Sōjō, Provisional High Prelate. In the third year (1221) he became an Imperial Prince (Note: following the Tendai Zasu-ki). In the third year of Jōō (1224) he was granted Second Rank (Note: following the Tendai Zasu-ki and the Shakke Kanpan-ki). In the first year of Karoku (1225) he became Bettō, Superintendent, of Shitennōji, and was then appointed Tendai Zasu, Abbot of the Tendai school (Note: following the Tendai Zasu-ki and the Sōkan Bunin). In the ninth month of the first year of Enō (1239) he died, at the age of forty-six (Note: following the Tendai Zasu-ki and the Teiō Hennenki). He was called Ayanokōji-no-Miya (Note: following the Tendai Zasu-ki and the Kōin Shōunroku). Cloistered Imperial Prince Dōshin entered Ninnaji and became a disciple of Imperial Prince Dōjo (Note: following the Ninnaji Goden and the Ninnaji Nichiji-ki). He became Gon-Shōsōzu, Provisional Lesser Bishop, and Isshin Ajari (Note: with reference to the Hyakurenshō and the Ninnaji Goden). In the third year of Jōkyū (1221) he became an Imperial Prince (Note: following the Hyakurenshō, the Teiō Hennenki, and the Ninnaji Goden) and was appointed Bettō of Kōryūji (Note: following the Ninnaji Goden). In the first year of Kangi (1229) he was at once granted Second Rank (Note: following the Teiō Hennenki and the Ninnaji Goden), became Sōhōmu, Chief Legal Officer of the clergy, was appointed Kengyō, Inspector, of the Six Shō-ji temples, and was permitted the Gissha edict, the privilege of riding in an ox-drawn carriage (Note: following the Ninnaji Goden). In the seventh month of the first year of Kenchō (1249) he died, at the age of forty-four (Note: following the Hyakurenshō, the Ninnaji Goden, and the Shomonzeki-fu; the Rekidai Kōki gives forty-six). He was called Kongōjō-in-no-Omuro, and also Daishō-in and Mada-in (Note: following the Ninnaji Goden; the Kōin Shōunroku gives Kōdai-in, which is mistaken). Rishi became an Imperial Princess and Ise-no-Sai, High Priestess of Ise, in the second year of Karoku (1226). In the first year of Tenpuku (1233) she resigned that office and returned to the capital (Note: following the Rekidai Kōki and the Nyoin Shōden). Emperor Shijō honored her as Empress and treated her as equal to the Imperial Mother (Note: following the Hyakurenshō, the Rekidai Kōki, and the Nyoin Shōden). In the first year of Teiō (1239) (Note: the source writes "Teiō" with a different first character, evidently an error for Enō) she became a nun because of illness and took the title Shikiken-mon'in (Note: following the Hyakurenshō, the Nyoin Shōden, and the Geki record quoted in the Ingō Jō Burui-ki). Her Buddhist name was Shinshōchi (Note: following the Nyoin Shōden). In the first month of the third year of Kenchō (1251) she died, at the age of fifty-five (Note: following the Hyakurenshō, the Rekidai Kōki, and the Nyoin Shōden). Kuniko became an Imperial Princess in the third year of Jōkyū (1221) (Note: following the Nyoin Shōden), and Emperor Go-Horikawa honored her as Empress and treated her as equal to the Imperial Mother. In the first year of Gennin (1224) she took the title Ankamon'in (Note: following the Ichidai Yōki, the Rekidai Kōki, and the Nyoin Shōden). In the second year of Bunryaku (1235) she became a nun (Note: following the Rekidai Kōki and the Nyoin Shōden). Her Buddhist name was Shōnyokaku (Note: following the Nyoin Shōden). In the ninth month of the sixth year of Kōan (1283) she died, at the age of seventy-five (Note: following the Rekidai Kōki, the Teiō Hennenki, and the Kankenki). Yoshiko left the world and became a nun (Note: following the Heikōki). In the first year of Ninji (1240) she became an Imperial Princess. In the ninth month of the third year of Kangen (1245) she died, at the age of forty-six (Note: following the Heikōki and the Hyakurenshō). She was called Oshikōji-no-Miya (Note: following the Heikōki, the Hyakurenshō, and the Kōin Shōunroku), and also Shirakawa-no-Miya (Note: following the Heikōki). Motoko left the world and became a nun (Note: following the Ichidai Yōki; the Kōin Shōunroku makes Motoko an Empress Dowager, but that is not adopted here).

Imperial Prince Koreakira

¶In the second year of Juei (1183), when Taira-no-Munemori fled west bearing Emperor Antoku and Imperial Prince Morisada, the capital was left without a sovereign. When the question of whom to set up from among the imperial sons was discussed, the only candidates were Koreakira and Emperor Go-Toba (Note: following the Gukanshō, the Genpei Jōsuiki, and the Heike Monogatari). The Retired Emperor Go-Shirakawa had this divined, and Koreakira came out as auspicious (Note: following the Gyokukai). So Koreakira was summoned, but he was still small and, crying out, would not come forward; the Retired Emperor was displeased (Note: following the Genpei Jōsuiki and the Heike Monogatari). When divination was done a second time the result did not agree (Note: following the Gyokukai), and in the end he did not ascend the throne (Note: following the Gyokukai, the Genpei Jōsuiki, the Nagatobon Heike Monogatari, and the Masukagami). In the fifth year of Bunji (1189) he became an Imperial Prince (Note: following the Nakasuke-ō-ki and the Kitsubu Hikunshō). In the sixth year of Kenkyū (1195) he became an adopted son of Shichijō-in, had his coming-of-age ceremony in her residence (Note: following the Hyakurenshō), and was granted Third Rank (Note: following the Hyakurenshō and the Ichidai Yōki). In the fifth year of Jōgen (1211) he shaved his head and took the Buddhist name Shōen. In the fifth month of the third year of Jōkyū (1221) he died, at the age of forty-three. His three sons were the monk Shōkai, the monk Son'un, and Prince Kunitaka (Note: following the Ichidai Yōki). Shōkai was also called Shōshin and lived at Sanbōin (Note: following the Shomonzeki-fu); he became Hōin, a Dharma Seal, and Daisōzu, Greater Bishop, and was called Takakuwa (Note: following the Ichidai Yōki). Later he became a Cloistered Imperial Prince and was granted Third Rank (Note: following the Shomonzeki-fu). Son'un lived at Enryakuji and became Daisōzu (Note: following the Ichidai Yōki and the Tendai Zasu-ki). Prince Kunitaka was called Daichi-in (Note: following the Ichidai Yōki) and also Katano-no-Miya (Note: following the Kōin Shōunroku).

[Go-Toba] Twelve Sons

¶Emperor Go-Toba had fourteen sons. The palace woman Minamoto-no-Zaishi bore Emperor Tsuchimikado. Fujiwara-no-Jūshi bore Emperor Juntoku (Note: following the Kōin Shōunroku, the Ichidai Yōki, the Rekidai Kōki, and the Hyakurenshō), the fourth son, Imperial Prince Masanari (Note: following the Ninnaji Nichiji-ki and the Meigetsuki), and the seventh son, Imperial Prince Hironari (Note: following the Tendai Zasu-ki and the Shomonzeki-fu; the Hyakurenshō calls him the third son, which is mistaken). A woman of a certain clan, a Naishi-no-suke, bore the monk Sonshu (Note: following the Kōin Shōunroku). A palace woman of the Fujiwara clan bore the second son, Imperial Prince Chōnin (Note: following the Ninnaji Goden; the Shakke Kanpan-ki and the Shomonzeki-fu both call him the sixth son, which is mistaken), and Imperial Prince Yorihito. A woman of a certain clan bore Cloistered Imperial Prince Kakunin (Note: following the Kōin Shōunroku). A woman of a certain clan bore the eighth son, Imperial Prince Tomohito (Note: following the Shomonzeki-fu; the Ninnaji Goden calls him the sixth son, which is mistaken). A woman of the Fujiwara clan bore Cloistered Imperial Prince Son'en and the monk Gyōchō. A woman of a certain clan bore the monk Kakuyo. As for the monks Dōi and Sanen (Note: following the Kōin Shōunroku. The Shōunroku, following its original text, makes Hōya a son of the emperor, but here, following the Ichidai Yōki, he is fixed as a son of Yorihito. Moreover, according to the Kamo Keizu, Kamo-no-Ujihisa was a son of the emperor; when the emperor was exiled to Oki he was entrusted to Yoshihisa, the Shinto priest of Kamo, and raised by him, and on growing up was given a name and styled himself of the Kamo clan and became a priest, and his descendants took the clan name Matsushita; but since this is not found in the other books, it is not adopted here), the clan names of the mothers of these two have not been handed down.

Imperial Prince Chōnin

¶Imperial Prince Chōnin became an Imperial Prince in the first year of Shōji (1199). In the first year of Ken'ei (1206) he shaved his head (Note: following the Meigetsuki, the Hyakurenshō, and the Ninnaji Goden). He received the precepts from Cloistered Imperial Prince Dōhō, changed his name to Dōjo, and lived at Ninnaji (Note: following the Ninnaji Goden). In the fourth year of Jōgen (1210) he was at once granted Second Rank (Note: following the Ninnaji Goden and the Shakke Kanpan-ki). During the Kenpō era (1213-1219) he was appointed Kengyō of the Six Shō-ji temples, was granted the Gōsho and became Sōhōmu. In the third year of Kangi (1231) he retired in seclusion to Kōyasan (Note: following the Ninnaji Goden). In the first month of the first year of Kenchō (1249) he died, at the age of fifty-four (Note: following the Ninnaji Goden and the Hyakurenshō). He was called Kōdai-in-no-Omuro (Note: following the Ninnaji Goden and the Shomonzeki-fu).

Imperial Prince Masanari

¶Imperial Prince Masanari was brought up by Sen'yōmon-in, and because he lived at the Rokujō mansion (Note: following the Meigetsuki), he was called Rokujō-no-Miya (Note: following the Ichidai Yōki, one text of the Kōin Shōunroku, and the Hyakurenshō). In the first year of Genkyū (1204) he became an Imperial Prince (Note: following the Meigetsuki and the Hyakurenshō) and was granted Third Rank (Note: following the Ichidai Yōki and the Kōin Shōunroku; the year and month are not recorded in this book). In the third year of Jōkyū (1221) he was exiled by Hōjō-no-Yoshitoki to Tajima (Note: following the Hyakurenshō, the Ichidai Yōki, the Rekidai Kōki, and the Jōkyūki). In the second year of Karoku (1226) he tried to escape, but the plan was discovered and he was confined (Note: following the Meigetsuki). In the end he shaved his head (Note: following the Ichidai Yōki and the Rekidai Kōki). In the second month of the seventh year of Kenchō (1255) he died in Tajima (Note: following the Hyakurenshō, the Rekidai Kōki, and the Ichidai Yōki), at the age of fifty-six (Note: the age follows the Hyakurenshō's statement that he was born in the second year of Shōji; the Rekidai Kōki gives fifty-seven, which is mistaken). His three sons, Chōkaku, Jōe, and Genun, all became monks (Note: following the Kōin Shōunroku). Cloistered Imperial Prince Chōkaku became a disciple of Cloistered Imperial Prince Songaku (Note: following the Shakke Kanpan-ki and the Tendai Zasu-ki) and lived at Kajii (Note: following the Kōin Shōunroku, the Sōkan Bunin, and the Shomonzeki-fu). In the second year of Bun'ei (1265) he was appointed Tendai Zasu. In the third year (1266) he became Daisōjō, Great High Prelate. In the eighth year (1271) he became Tendai Zasu again. In the tenth year (1273) he was permitted the Gissha edict (Note: following the Tendai Zasu-ki). In the eleventh year (1274) he became an Imperial Prince (Note: following the Tendai Zasu-ki, the Kōin Shōunroku, the Shomonzeki-fu, and the Shakke Kanpan-ki). That a grandson of an emperor who was a monk became an Imperial Prince was a first (Note: following the Shakke Kanpan-ki. The Tendai Zasu-ki, the Shomonzeki-fu, and the Shorei-shō all give this as the first case of a grandson of an emperor becoming an Imperial Prince, but do not mention that he was a monk. Probably they do not count the sons of Koichijō-in, Go-Takakura-in, and others).

Imperial Prince Yorihito

¶Imperial Prince Yorihito became an Imperial Prince in the fourth year of Jōgen (1210) (Note: following the Hyakurenshō). In the third year of Jōkyū (1221) he was exiled by Hōjō-no-Yoshitoki to Kojima in Bizen (Note: following the Hyakurenshō and the Jōkyūki; with reference also to the Ichidai Yōki and the Rekidai Kōki). He was called Reizei-no-Miya (Note: following the Hyakurenshō, the Ichidai Yōki, the Rekidai Kōki, and the Kōin Shōunroku). His two sons both became monks (Note: following the Ichidai Yōki).

Cloistered Imperial Prince Kakunin

¶Cloistered Imperial Prince Kakunin lived at Byōdōin (Note: following the Ichidai Yōki) and became Gon-Daisōzu. In the sixth year of Kenpō (1218) he became an Imperial Prince (Note: following the Ninnaji Nichiji-ki). In this year he was appointed Chōri, Head Abbot, of Onjōji (Note: following the Sōkan Bunin). In the first year of Hōji (1247) he was permitted the Gissha edict (Note: following the Hyakurenshō). In the fourth year of Kangen (1246) he became Kengyō of the Three Mountains of Kumano (Note: following the Yōkōki; the Sōkan Bunin gives the second year of Hōji, which is mistaken). In the fourth month of the third year of Bun'ei (1266) he died, at the age of sixty-nine (Note: following the Rekidai Kōki). He was called Sakurai-no-Miya (Note: following the Hyakurenshō, the Masukagami, the Sōkan Bunin, and the Kōin Shōunroku).

Imperial Prince Hironari

¶Imperial Prince Hironari became an Imperial Prince in the second year of Jōgen (1208) (Note: following the Shakke Kanpan-ki). In the second year of Kenpō (1214) he shaved his head and changed his name to Sonkai (Note: following the Ninnaji Nichiji-ki and the Ichidai Yōki). He lived at Kajii (Note: following the Sōkan Bunin, the Shomonzeki-fu, and the Shakke Kanpan-ki). In the second year of Jōkyū (1220) he became Isshin Ajari (Note: following the Ninnaji Nichiji-ki). In the third year (1221) he became Tendai Zasu (Note: following the Sōkan Bunin). In the fourth month of the fourth year of Kangen (1246) he died, at the age of forty-three (Note: following the Tendai Zasu-ki and the Rekidai Kōki).

Imperial Prince Tomohito

¶Imperial Prince Tomohito became an Imperial Prince in the second year of Jōgen (1208) (Note: following the Tendai Zasu-ki, the Shakke Kanpan-ki, and the Hyakurenshō). In the fourth year of Kenpō (1216) he became a disciple of the monk Jien, shaved his head, and changed his name to Dōkaku (Note: following the Tendai Zasu-ki and the Ninnaji Nichiji-ki). In the sixth year (1218) he became Isshin Ajari (Note: following the Ninnaji Nichiji-ki) and lived at Shōren-in (Note: following the Tendai Zasu-ki and the Shomonzeki-fu). Emperor Go-Toba had once built a hall at Nishiyama Yoshimine for Tomohito's mother, and when the Jōkyū disturbance broke out, Tomohito fled there and lived in it, so he was called Nishiyama-no-Miya (Note: following the Yōkōki). In the first year of Hōji (1247) he was appointed Tendai Zasu (Note: following the Yōkōki, the Tendai Zasu-ki, and the Sōkan Bunin). In the second year (1248) he became Kengyō of Mudōji (Note: following the Sōkan Bunin). He was skilled in waka (Note: following the Shomonzeki-fu). In the first month of the second year of Kenchō (1250) he died, at the age of forty-seven (Note: following the Rekidai Kōki, the Tendai Zasu-ki, and the Sōkan Bunin).

Cloistered Imperial Prince Son'en

¶Cloistered Imperial Prince Son'en lived at Shōgoin (Note: following the Kōin Shōunroku and the Shomonzeki-fu). In the fifth year of Kenpō (1217) he became a disciple of the monk Enchū and was appointed Isshin Ajari (Note: following the Ninnaji Nichiji-ki). In the sixth year (1218) he became an Imperial Prince (Note: following the Hyakurenshō and the Ninnaji Nichiji-ki). In the tenth month of the third year of Kangi (1231) he died, at the age of twenty-five (Note: following the Rekidai Kōki, the Kōin Shōunroku, and the Shomonzeki-fu; the Shōunroku has a statement that he was exiled to Bizen, but since this is not found in the other books, it is not adopted).

The Monk Dōshu

¶The monk Dōshu was at first named Enkai and lived at Hojuin in Ninnaji and became Hōin (Note: following the Kōin Shōunroku).

The Monk Kakuyo

¶The monk Kakuyo lived at Zenrinji and became Daisōzu (Note: following the Kōin Shōunroku and the Shomonzeki-fu).

The Monk Dōi

¶The monk Dōi lived at Onjōji (Note: following the Kōin Shōunroku).

The Monk Dōen

¶The monk Dōen lived at Ninnaji and became Isshin Ajari (Note: following the Kōin Shōunroku and the Ninnaji Nichiji-ki).

The Monk Gyōchō

¶The monk Gyōchō lived at Enryakuji and became Daisōzu (Note: following the Ichidai Yōki; the Kōin Shōunroku gives Gon-Daisōzu).

[Tsuchimikado] Ten Sons

¶Emperor Tsuchimikado had eleven sons. The posthumous Empress Dowager, of the Minamoto clan, bore Emperor Go-Saga (Note: following the Rekidai Kōki, the Kō Nendai Ryakki, and the Jinnō Shōtōki), the fifth son, Cloistered Imperial Prince Ninjo (Note: following the Shomonzeki-fu), and Cloistered Imperial Prince Jōnin. Takashina-no-Shi, a Naishi-no-jō, Junior Handmaid, bore Cloistered Imperial Prince Dōnin (Note: following the Kōin Shōunroku and the Ichidai Yōki). A palace woman of the Fujiwara clan bore the fourth son, Cloistered Imperial Prince Dōen (Note: following the Kōin Shōunroku and the Yasui Daidai Monzeki Shidai; that he was the fourth son follows the Monzeki Shidai). A woman of a certain clan bore the first son, Cloistered Imperial Prince Sonshu (Note: the various books do not record the order of birth; he is fixed as the first son solely on the basis of the year of his death). A woman of a certain clan bore Cloistered Imperial Prince Sainin (Note: following the Kōin Shōunroku and the Teiō Hennenki). A woman of a certain clan bore the eighth son, Cloistered Imperial Prince Sonjo (Note: following the Shomonzeki-fu). A woman of a certain clan bore the monk Zōnin. As for the two monks Kaison (Note: following the Kōin Shōunroku) and Jakue (Note: following the Ichidai Yōki), the clan names of their mothers have not been handed down.

Cloistered Imperial Prince Sonshu

¶Cloistered Imperial Prince Sonshu lived at Myōhōin (Note: following the Shomonzeki-fu). In the tenth month of the first year of Bun'ō (1260) he died (Note: following the entry for the second year of Jōwa in the Enta Ryaku; the Rekidai Kōki gives the first month), at the age of fifty-one (Note: following the Rekidai Kōki). He was called Takahashi-no-Miya (Note: following the Kōin Shōunroku and the Shomonzeki-fu).

Cloistered Imperial Prince Dōnin

¶Cloistered Imperial Prince Dōnin lived at Hōjūji (Note: following the Kōin Shōunroku and the Shomonzeki-fu). In the second year of Hōji (1248) he became an Imperial Prince (Note: following the Hyakurenshō). In the third year of Kenchō (1251) he was appointed Chōri of Onjōji (Note: following the Sōkan Bunin). In the first month of the third year of Kōan (1280) he died (Note: following the Ichidai Yōki).

Cloistered Imperial Prince Dōen

¶Cloistered Imperial Prince Dōen lived at Rengekō-in (Note: following the Kōin Shōunroku, the Shomonzeki-fu, and the Yasui Daidai Monzeki Shidai).

Cloistered Imperial Prince Ninjo

¶Cloistered Imperial Prince Ninjo lived at Enmanin (Note: following the Kōin Shōunroku and the Shomonzeki-fu) and became Sōjō, High Prelate. In the third year of Ninji (1242) he became an Imperial Prince (Note: following the Hyakurenshō) and was appointed Chōri of Onjōji (Note: following the Sōkan Bunin). In the first year of Kenchō (1249) he was appointed Bettō of Shitennōji (Note: following the Hyakurenshō and the Sōkan Bunin) and became Kengyō of Chōkōdō (Note: following the Shomonzeki-fu). In the eighth month of the second year of Kōchō (1262) he died (Note: following the Ichidai Yōki, the Rekidai Kōki, and the entry for the second year of Jōwa in the Enta Ryaku), at the age of forty-eight (Note: following the Rekidai Kōki).

Cloistered Imperial Prince Jōnin

¶Cloistered Imperial Prince Jōnin lived at Hōjūji (Note: following the Shomonzeki-fu; the Sōkan Bunin gives Sōrinji). In the sixth year of Kenchō (1254) he was appointed Chōri of Onjōji. In the third year of Bun'ei (1266) he became Kengyō of the Three Mountains of Kumano (Note: following the Sōkan Bunin).

Cloistered Imperial Prince Sainin

¶Cloistered Imperial Prince Sainin became a disciple of Cloistered Imperial Prince Songaku (Note: following the Tendai Zasu-ki and the Shomonzeki-fu) and lived at Kajii (Note: following the Kōin Shōunroku and the Shomonzeki-fu). In the third year of Kōchō (1263) he became Tendai Zasu. In the second month of the third year of Einin (1295) he died at Nakayama-bō, at the age of sixty-nine (Note: some versions of this book give sixty-three. It is also said that he was thirteen in the second year of Kangen and thirty-seven in the third year of Kōchō. The various books differ, and it cannot now be determined). He was called Nochi-no-Nakayama-no-Miya (Note: following the Tendai Zasu-ki; the Kōin Shōunroku and the Shomonzeki-fu both give Nakayama-no-Miya, which is mistaken).

Cloistered Imperial Prince Sonjo

¶Cloistered Imperial Prince Sonjo became a disciple of Cloistered Imperial Prince Sonkai (Note: following the Tendai Zasu-ki), lived at Shōren-in (Note: following the Kōin Shōunroku, the Shomonzeki-fu, and the Shakke Kanpan-ki), and became Gon-Daisōzu (Note: following the Sōkan Bunin and the Hyakurenshō). In the fourth year of Kenchō (1252) he became an Imperial Prince (Note: following the Hyakurenshō). In the sixth year (1254) he was appointed Kengyō of Mudōji (Note: following the Sōkan Bunin). In the first year of Shōgen (1259) he became Tendai Zasu (Note: following the Tendai Zasu-ki and the Sōkan Bunin). In the second year (1260) he was permitted the Gissha edict (Note: following the Tendai Zasu-ki). In the ninth year of Kōan (1286) he was appointed Bettō of Shitennōji (Note: following the Sōkan Bunin). In the second year of Shōō (1289) he was at once granted Second Rank (Note: following the Shakke Kanpan-ki). In the eleventh month he died, at the age of seventy-four (Note: following the Tendai Zasu-ki and the Teiō Hennenki). He was called Ōhara-no-Miya (Note: following the Tendai Zasu-ki).

The Monk Zōnin

¶The monk Zōnin lived at Enryakuji, became Gon-Daisōzu, and was called Shirutani-no-Miya (Note: following the Kōin Shōunroku).

The Monk Kaison

¶The monk Kaison lived at Onjōji (Note: following the Kōin Shōunroku).

[Juntoku] Six Sons

¶The monk Jakue.

Prince Tadanari

¶Emperor Juntoku had seven sons. The Chūgū, Empress, of the Fujiwara clan bore the Deposed Emperor of Kujō (Emperor Chūkyō) (Note: following the Kōin Shōunroku, the Hyakurenshō, the Ichidai Yōki, and the Rekidai Kōki). A palace woman of the Fujiwara clan bore Cloistered Imperial Prince Songaku, Prince Tadanari, and Cloistered Imperial Prince Kakue. A woman of the Fujiwara clan bore Imperial Prince Yoshimune and Prince Hikonari (Note: following the Kōin Shōunroku). A woman of a certain clan bore a prince of unrecorded name (Note: following the Ninnaji Nichiji-ki. Regarding the order of birth of Emperor Juntoku's sons, the various books differ in their accounts. The Rekidai Kōki, the Teiō Hennenki, and other books make the Deposed Emperor the first son. The Shomonzeki-fu and the Tendai Zasu-ki make Songaku the first son. But the Kōki, the Ichidai Yōki, and the Kō Nendai Ryakki all say that the Deposed Emperor was born in the sixth year of Kenpō and died in the first year of Bunryaku, which seems closer to the truth. The Zasu-ki says that Songaku was born in the second year of Kenpō and died in the first year of Bun'ei, at the age of fifty. Reckoning now from the year of his death and from the year of his receiving the precepts in this book, his birth should fall in the third year of Kenpō, and the second year seems to be a mistake. The Nichiji-ki says that the prince of unrecorded name was born in the fifth year of Kenpō. By this, the first son was Songaku, the second was the unnamed prince, and the third was the Deposed Emperor. The Shōunroku says that Prince Tadanari died in the second year of Kōan, at the age of fifty-nine. The Kōki says that Imperial Prince Yoshimune died in the first year of Bunpō, at the age of eighty-five. Reckoning together from the years of death, Tadanari was born in the third year of Jōkyū and Yoshimune in the first year of Tenpuku, which would make Tadanari the fourth son and Yoshimune the fifth. But since the accounts of the various books are tangled and cannot be settled, the order of birth is not stated here. As for Kakue and Hikonari, the years and months of their births and deaths have not been handed down).

Imperial Prince Tadafusa

¶Cloistered Imperial Prince Songaku became a disciple of Cloistered Imperial Prince Sonkai (Note: following the Tendai Zasu-ki and the Shomonzeki-fu) and lived at Kajii (Note: following the Kōin Shōunroku and the Shomonzeki-fu). In the first year of Kenchō (1249) he was appointed Tendai Zasu (Note: following the Hyakurenshō, the Tendai Zasu-ki, and the Sōkan Bunin). In the tenth month of the first year of Bun'ei (1264) he died at Nakayama-bō, at the age of fifty (Note: following the Tendai Zasu-ki and the Rekidai Kōki). He was called Nakayama-no-Miya (Note: following the Tendai Zasu-ki and the Sōkan Bunin).

Imperial Prince Yoshimune

¶Prince Tadanari was called Iwashi-no-Miya, and also Hirogosho-no-Miya (Note: following the Ichidai Yōki, the Kōin Shōunroku, and the Sonpi Bunmyaku). When Emperor Shijō died, Shumei-mon'in and the former Sesshō, Regent, Kujō-no-Michiie wished to set up Tadanari, but the Hōjō would not listen, and in the end Emperor Go-Saga was set up (Note: following the Jinnō Shōtōki; this book writes Shumei as Shōmei, which is mistaken). In the twelfth month of the second year of Kōan (1279) he died (Note: following the Kōin Shōunroku and the Sonpi Bunmyaku), at the age of fifty-nine (Note: following the Kōin Shōunroku; the Rekidai Kōki says he died in the third year of Kōan, at the age of fifty-eight, which is mistaken). His children were Prince Hikotoyo, Minamoto-no-Hikohito, the monk Sonchū, the monk Ekijo, and the monk Jōe (Note: following the Kōin Shōunroku, the Sonpi Bunmyaku, and the Ichidai Yōki). Hikotoyo was called Kaga-no-Miya (Note: following the Ichidai Yōki and the Kōin Shōunroku). Hikohito was granted the surname Minamoto-no-Ason, was granted Senior Third Rank, and rose to be Ukonoe-no-chūjō, Middle Captain of the Right Imperial Guards (Note: following the Kōin Shōunroku and the Sonpi Bunmyaku; the Ichidai Yōki writes left for right). Sonchū lived at Kajii, became Sōjō, and was called Irie. Ekijo lived at Jōjō-in, became Daisōjō (Note: following the Shomonzeki-fu and the Sonpi Bunmyaku), and was called Jiun-ji (Note: following the Shomonzeki-fu). Jōe became Sōjō and was called Ogawa. Hikohito's children were Imperial Prince Tadafusa, Cloistered Imperial Prince Jōchin (Note: following the Ichidai Yōki and the Sonpi Bunmyaku), and the monk Genkaku (Note: following the Ichidai Yōki). His daughter was Imperial Princess Moriko (Note: following the Sonpi Bunmyaku and the Kōin Shōunroku). Jōchin became an adopted son of Emperor Go-Uda (Note: following the Shomonzeki-fu and the Shakke Kanpan-ki), became a disciple of Cloistered Imperial Prince Jōkaku (Note: following the Shakke Kanpan-ki), lived at Kajii (Note: following the Sonpi Bunmyaku, the Shomonzeki-fu, and the Shakke Kanpan-ki), and became an Ajari. In the first year of Bunpō (1317) he became an Imperial Prince (Note: following the Shakke Kanpan-ki), and in the third year of Shōchū (1326) he became Tendai Zasu (Note: following the Tendai Zasu-ki; the Sōkan Bunin gives the second year of Shōchū).

Cloistered Imperial Prince Kakue

¶Imperial Prince Tadafusa rose by degrees to Junior Second Rank and Gon-Chūnagon, Provisional Middle Counsellor (Note: following the Kugyō Bunin and the Sonpi Bunmyaku). He became an adopted son of Emperor Go-Uda (Note: following the Shokugenshō). In the first year of Gen'ō (1319) he became an Imperial Prince and was appointed Danjō-no-in, Chief of the Board of Censors (Note: following the Kugyō Bunin). In the second year of Kenmu (1335), when Ashikaga-no-Takauji rose in revolt at Kamakura, Tadafusa, together with Daichi-in-no-Miya (whose name has not been handed down) and Fujiwara-no-Saneyo and others, advanced by way of the Tōsandō, took the castle of Ōi in Shinano, and at last set out toward Kamakura. Before long the army of the Tōkaidō was defeated, and Nitta-no-Yoshisada and the others fled west. Takauji took advantage of the momentum and pursued them. In the following year (1336) he attacked the capital. The emperor made a progress to Enryakuji, and Tadafusa led more than twenty thousand soldiers from Kai, Shinano, Kōzuke, and Shimotsuke back to Higashi-Sakamoto. The imperial army was greatly stirred, and advanced its camp to Akayama. Before long Takauji fled (Note: following the Taiheiki. This book does not record that Tadafusa struck Takauji, but since it records that Saneyo led twenty thousand soldiers and camped at Akayama, it is clear that the same was true of Tadafusa). Later he shaved his head and took the Buddhist name Zenne (Note: following the Sonpi Bunmyaku). In the seventh month of the second year of Shōhei (1347) he died (Note: following the Kugyō Bunin), and his son Minamoto-no-Hikoyoshi (Note: following the Kōin Shōunroku and the Sonpi Bunmyaku) became Sangi, Counsellor, Junior Second Rank, and Sakonoe-no-chūjō, Middle Captain of the Left Imperial Guards (Note: following the Kugyō Bunin; the Sonpi Bunmyaku gives Junior Third Rank).

Prince Hikonari

¶Imperial Prince Yoshimune died in the third month of the first year of Bunpō (1317), at the age of eighty-five (Note: following the Rekidai Kōki). He took the name Yotsutsuji (Note: following the Teiō Hennenki). His two sons were Prince Songa and the monk Shinne (Note: following the Kōin Shōunroku and the Sonpi Bunmyaku; the Ichidai Yōki gives three sons, the monks Shinne, Gyōjo, and Ninshō). Songa's son Yoshinari was granted the surname Minamoto-no-Ason and rose to be Junior First Rank and Sadaijin, Minister of the Left. He shaved his head (Note: following the Kugyō Bunin and the Sonpi Bunmyaku) and took the Buddhist name Jōshō (Note: following the Kugyō Bunin). Yoshinari loved to read the Genji Monogatari, and, admiring the characters of Koremitsu and Yoshikiyo as depicted in that work, wrote a book resolving its doubtful points and named it the Kakaishō (Note: following the preface of this book). He signed it "Compiled by Hakase Koreyoshi," which was probably a pseudonym taken from the names Koremitsu and Yoshikiyo. Many had written commentaries on the work before this, but none matched the precision of the Kakaishō. People of later times said, "For the Genji Monogatari to have the Kakaishō is like finding a lamp on a dark night" (Note: following the Minkō Nisso).

A Certain Imperial Prince

¶Cloistered Imperial Prince Kakue lived at Shōgoin and was called Shinnyo-in (Note: following the Kōin Shōunroku and the Shomonzeki-fu).

¶Prince Hikonari.

¶A certain prince.