Imperial Princes XII

Imperial Prince Tsunetaka

¶Emperor Go-Saga had fifteen sons. His Chūgū, Empress, of the Fujiwara clan, bore Emperor Go-Fukakusa, Emperor Kameyama, Imperial Prince Tsunetaka, Imperial Prince Masataka, and Imperial Prince Sadayoshi (Note: following the Kōin Shōunroku and the Ichidai Yōki. The Azuma Kagami calls Imperial Prince Masataka the "Fourth Prince," but judging from the times of his birth and death he was not in fact the fourth son. It probably counts him as the fourth among the children born of the Empress. This account is therefore not adopted). The Naishi-no-suke, Assistant Handmaid, Taira-no-Muneko bore the second son, Imperial Prince Munetaka (Note: following the Godai Teiō Monogatari and the Masukagami. The Rekidai Kōki, one account in the Masukagami, and the Azuma Kagami make him the first son. Here, judging from the year of birth, the account of this work is followed). The Naishi-no-jō, Junior Handmaid, of the Fujiwara clan bore the tenth son, Priestly Imperial Prince Kakujo (Note: following the Kōin Shōunroku. That he is the tenth son follows the Shakke Kanpanki). The Mikushigedono, a lady of the Fujiwara clan, bore the ninth son, Imperial Prince Seinin (Note: following the Shomonzeki-fu and the Shakke Kanpanki. The Hyakurenshō and the Rekidai Kōki make him the third son. One account in the Hyakurenshō makes him the fourth son, and the Ninnaji Goden the sixth. But reckoning from the statement that he died in the fifth year of Kōan at the age of thirty-six, his birth would have preceded that of Emperor Kameyama. If so, the account in the Hyakurenshō is closest to the truth. However, since no other work offers evidence for it, for the moment the account of this work is followed), and Priestly Imperial Prince Chūjo (Note: following the Shomonzeki-fu). A court lady of the Fujiwara clan bore Priestly Imperial Prince Ninne. A lady of the Fujiwara clan bore Priestly Imperial Prince Saijo (Note: following the Kōin Shōunroku and the Shomonzeki-fu). A lady of the Fujiwara clan bore the thirteenth son, Priestly Imperial Prince Jijo (Note: following the Shomonzeki-fu). A lady of the Fujiwara clan bore the first son, Priestly Imperial Prince Enjo (Note: following the Masukagami. The Shakke Kanpanki and the Shomonzeki-fu both make him the seventh son. Here, judging from the year of birth, the account of this work is followed). A lady of the Fujiwara clan bore Priestly Imperial Prince Jōjo. A lady of the Minamoto clan bore the monk Shōjo (Note: following the Kōin Shōunroku). Imperial Prince Munetaka has a separate biography.

Imperial Prince Masataka

¶Imperial Prince Tsunetaka. (Note: this single phrase is the whole of the text in the source; there is no entry about Imperial Prince Masataka himself.)

Imperial Prince Sadayoshi

¶Imperial Prince Masataka (Note: the Azuma Kagami writes the "Masa" of his name with the character "Kore," which is mistaken) became an Imperial Prince in the sixth year of Kenchō (1254) (Note: following the Hyakurenshō and the Ichidai Yōki). In the ninth month of the first year of Kōgen (1256) he died, at the age of three (Note: following the Hyakurenshō).

Priestly Imperial Prince Enjo

¶Imperial Prince Sadayoshi became an Imperial Prince in the first year of Shōka (1257) (Note: following the Hyakurenshō and the Ichidai Yōki), and in the third month of the second year of Shōgen (1260) he died. He was four years old (Note: following the Ichidai Yōki).

Priestly Imperial Prince Jōjo

¶Priestly Imperial Prince Enjo was of fair form and appearance and was deeply favored by the emperor (Emperor Go-Saga) (Note: following the Hyakurenshō and the Ichidai Yōki). In the first year of Kenchō (1249) he entered the Enman-in, shaved his head, and studied under Priestly Imperial Prince Ninjo (Note: following the Okaya Kanpakuki, the Hyakurenshō, and the Masukagami). He became Gon-no-daisōzu, Provisional Senior Assistant Prelate, and later was raised to Imperial Prince (Note: following the Okaya Kanpakuki, the Hyakurenshō, the Ichidai Yōki, and the Shakke Kanpanki). In the first year of Shōka (1257) he became Chōri, Superior, of Enjōji (Note: the source writes "Enjōji," evidently a slip for Onjōji, the temple named in the next entries). In the second year of Kōchō (1262) he became Bettō, Administrator, of Shitennōji (Note: following the Sōkan Bunin). Later he was permitted the use of an ox-drawn carriage (Note: following the Kōin Shōunroku). In the eleventh year of Bun'ei (1274) he was granted Second Rank directly (Note: following the Shakke Kanpanki). This was the first time that a Superior of Onjōji received Second Rank. In the eighth month of the fifth year of Kōan (1282) he died (Note: following the Rekidai Kōki and the entry for the second year of Jōwa in the Entairyaku), at the age of forty-seven (Note: following the Rekidai Kōki. The Ichidai Yōki says he died in the first year of Shōgen at the age of twenty-two). He was called Konryūji (Note: following the Shomonzeki-fu. The Ichidai Yōki writes Zenrinji).

Imperial Prince Seinin

¶Priestly Imperial Prince Jōjo resided at the Enman-in (Note: following the Kōin Shōunroku, the Ichidai Yōki, and the Shomonzeki-fu). In the eleventh month of the third year of Kōan (1280) he died (Note: following the Ichidai Yōki, the Rekidai Kōki, and the entry for the second year of Jōwa in the Entairyaku), at the age of twenty-eight. He was called Shōrenge-in (Note: following the Shomonzeki-fu).

Priestly Imperial Prince Kakujo

¶Imperial Prince Seinin became an Imperial Prince in the third year of Kenchō (1251). In the first year of Shōka (1257) he entered the Ninnaji and became a disciple of the monk Hōjo. He shaved his head and changed his name to Shōjo (Note: following the Kōin Shōunroku, the Hyakurenshō, the Ichidai Yōki, and the Teiō Hennenki. The Ninnaji Goden says he entered the Ninnaji in the third year of Kenchō, and the Shakke Kanpanki says he became a disciple of the monk Dōshin, but both are probably mistaken). The following year he was appointed Kengyō, Inspector, of the Rokushōji, was granted the Tsunasho, the office of monastic administration, and was further appointed to the Ninnaji's temple affairs (Note: following the Ninnaji Goden). In the eleventh year of Bun'ei (1274) he was granted Second Rank directly (Note: following the Shakke Kanpanki). In the twelfth month of the fifth year of Kōan (1282) he died, at the age of thirty-six (Note: following the Ninnaji Goden and the Shomonzeki-fu). He was called Go-Naka-no-Omuro, the Later Middle Retired Prince of the Omuro (Note: following the Ninnaji Goden, the Shakke Kanpanki, and the Shomonzeki-fu), and also Kanrōō-in-no-Omuro (Note: following the Ninnaji Goden), or again Zenrinji (Note: following the Teiō Hennenki).

Priestly Imperial Prince Chūjo

¶Priestly Imperial Prince Kakujo became a disciple of the monk Seichū and resided at the Shōgoin (Note: following the Shakke Kanpanki). In the fifth year of Bun'ei (1268) he was appointed Chōri, Superior, of Onjōji (Note: following the Sōkan Bunin). In the second year of Shōan (1300) he was granted Second Rank directly (Note: following the Shakke Kanpanki), and later advanced to First Rank (Note: following the Kōin Shōunroku and the Sōkan Bunin). In the first year of Kagen (1303) he was appointed Bettō, Administrator, of Shitennōji (Note: following the Sōkan Bunin). This was the first time that a son of an emperor who had entered religion received First Rank.

Priestly Imperial Prince Saijo

¶Priestly Imperial Prince Chūjo resided at the Shōgoin. In the second year of Shōō (1289) he became Chōri, Superior, of Onjōji (Note: following the Kōin Shōunroku, the Shomonzeki-fu, and the Sōkan Bunin), and in the eighth month of the third year (1290) he died (Note: following the Rekidai Kōki and the entry for the second year of Jōwa in the Entairyaku). Priestly Imperial Prince Saijo entered Kajii and became a disciple of Priestly Imperial Prince Chōkaku (Note: following the Shomonzeki-fu). Later he resided at the Enyūbō. In the ninth year of Kōan (1286) he became Tendai Zasu, Head of the Tendai school (Note: following the Shomonzeki-fu and the Tendai Zasu-ki). In the fourth year of Shōō (1291) he was appointed Bettō, Administrator, of Shitennōji (Note: following the Sōkan Bunin). In the second month of the first year of Einin (1293) he died (Note: following the entry for the second year of Jōwa in the Entairyaku), at the age of forty-one (Note: reckoned from the statement in the Tendai Zasu-ki that he was thirty-four in the ninth year of Kōan).

Priestly Imperial Prince Jijo

¶Priestly Imperial Prince Jijo became a disciple of Priestly Imperial Prince Sonjo and resided at the Shōrenge-in (Note: following the Kōin Shōunroku and the Tendai Zasu-ki). During the Shōō era he served twice as Tendai Zasu (Note: following the Teiō Hennenki, the Tendai Zasu-ki, and the Sōkan Bunin) and was permitted the use of an ox-drawn carriage (Note: following the Kōin Shōunroku). In the seventh month of the third year of Einin (1295) he died (Note: following the Kōin Shōunroku, the Rekidai Kōki, the entry for the second year of Jōwa in the Entairyaku, and the Shomonzeki-fu), at the age of forty-two (Note: following the Rekidai Kōki). He was called the Ichikawa Prince (Note: following the Kōin Shōunroku, the Shomonzeki-fu, and the Sōkan Bunin).

Priestly Imperial Prince Ninne

¶Priestly Imperial Prince Ninne entered the Hōjūji and studied under Priestly Imperial Prince Jōjin. In the fourth year of Bun'ei (1267) he became Daisōzu, Senior Assistant Prelate (Note: following the Kōin Shōunroku), and later was raised to Imperial Prince. He was called Sōrinji, and also Shin-Kumano (Note: following the Kōin Shōunroku and the Shomonzeki-fu).

Monk Shōjo

¶The monk Shōjo entered the Ninnaji to receive instruction and resided at the Hōju-in, and was also called Shōhō-in (Note: following the Kōin Shōunroku).

Imperial Prince Yukihito

¶Emperor Go-Fukakusa had seven sons. The court lady Fujiwara-no-Onshi bore Emperor Fushimi (Note: following the Kōin Shōunroku and the Rekidai Kōki) and the third son, Imperial Prince Mitsuhito (Note: the Ninnaji Goden and the Shomonzeki-fu make him the fourth son). Miyoshi-no-Tadako bore the fourth son, Priestly Imperial Prince Jinshō (Note: the Shakke Kanpanki and the Shomonzeki-fu make him the sixth son). Fujiwara-no-Seishi bore the first son, Imperial Prince Yukihito. The Mikushigedono Fujiwara-no-Fusako bore the sixth son, Imperial Prince Hisaakira (Note: following the Kōin Shōunroku. As the works differ on the order in which the princes were born, it has been corrected here by reckoning from their years of birth and death), and the fifth son, Priestly Imperial Prince Gyōkaku. A Naishi-no-suke, Assistant Handmaid, of the Fujiwara clan bore the seventh son, Priestly Imperial Prince Kōjo (Note: following the Shomonzeki-fu). Imperial Prince Hisaakira has a separate biography.

Imperial Prince Mitsuhito

¶Imperial Prince Yukihito died in the tenth month of the second year of Bun'ei (1265), at the age of four (Note: following the Kōin Shōunroku and the Sonpi Bunmyaku. The Ichidai Yōki and the Rekidai Kōki both say he died in the fifth month of the ninth year of Bun'ei, which is mistaken).

Priestly Imperial Prince Gyōkaku

¶Imperial Prince Mitsuhito became an Imperial Prince in the eighth year of Bun'ei (1271). In the first year of Kōan (1278) he entered the Ninnaji (Note: following the Ninnaji Goden) and became a disciple of Imperial Prince Shōjo (Note: following the Ninnaji Goden and the Shakke Kanpanki). He shaved his head and changed his name to Shōnin (Note: following the Kōin Shōunroku and the Ninnaji Goden). In the second year of Kōan (1279) he was appointed Kengyō, Inspector, of the Rokushōji. In the fifth year (1282) he was appointed to the Ninnaji's temple affairs. In the sixth year (1283) he became Isshin Ajari, a master of the esoteric rites by special grant. In the ninth year (1286) he was granted the Tsunasho and the office of Sōhōmu, Supreme Judge of the Buddhist clergy (Note: following the Ninnaji Goden). In the first year of Shōō (1288) he was granted Second Rank directly. In the second year of Shōan (1300) he advanced to First Rank (Note: following the Ninnaji Goden and the Shakke Kanpanki). In the eighth month of the second year of Kagen (1304) he died, at the age of thirty-eight. He was called Takao-no-Omuro (Note: following the Shomonzeki-fu. The Ninnaji Goden places his advancement to First Rank in the second year of Kagen).

Priestly Imperial Prince Jinshō

¶Priestly Imperial Prince Gyōkaku resided at the Enman-in (Note: following the Kōin Shōunroku, the Ichidai Yōki, and the Shomonzeki-fu). In the second year of Shōō (1289) he was appointed Chōri, Superior, of Onjōji (Note: following the Sōkan Bunin), and soon afterwards became Bettō, Administrator, of Shitennōji (Note: following the Shomonzeki-fu). In the ninth month of the first year of Einin (1293) he died, at the age of twenty-one (Note: following the Rekidai Kōki).

Priestly Imperial Prince Kōjo

¶Priestly Imperial Prince Jinshō entered the Ninnaji in the tenth year of Kōan (1287) and received instruction under Priestly Imperial Prince Shōnin. In the first year of Shōō (1288) he became an Imperial Prince (Note: following the Ninnaji Goden). In the first year of Einin (1293) he was granted Second Rank directly (Note: following the Ninnaji Goden and the Shakke Kanpanki). The following year (1294) he became Isshin Ajari. In the third year (1295) he was appointed Kengyō, Inspector, of the Rokushōji. In the fifth year (1297) he was granted the Tsunasho. In the sixth month of the first year of Shōan (1299) he died, at the age of twenty-nine (Note: following the Ninnaji Goden. The Shakke Kanpanki and the Shomonzeki-fu write the age as twenty-five). He was called Sonshōin-no-Omuro (Note: following the Ninnaji Goden and the Shomonzeki-fu).

Imperial Prince Tomohito

¶Priestly Imperial Prince Kōjo resided at the Enman-in, became Chōri, Superior, of Onjōji, and was appointed Bettō, Administrator, of Shitennōji (Note: following the Shomonzeki-fu). In the seventh month of the third year of Enkyō (1310) he died, at the age of twenty (Note: following the Rekidai Kōki). He was called Konryūji (Note: following the Shomonzeki-fu).

Imperial Prince Hirohito

¶Emperor Kameyama had twenty-four sons. His Kōgō, Empress, of the Fujiwara clan bore Imperial Prince Tomohito and Emperor Go-Uda. The Nyōgo, Consort, Fujiwara-no-Ishi bore Imperial Prince Hirohito and Imperial Prince Tsuguhito (Note: following the Kōin Shōunroku and the Ichidai Yōki). A Naishi-no-suke, Assistant Handmaid, of the Fujiwara clan bore the seventh son, Priestly Imperial Prince Ryōjo (Note: following the Shomonzeki-fu), Priestly Imperial Prince Shōun, and the tenth son, Priestly Imperial Prince Kakuun (Note: that he is the tenth son follows the Shakke Kanpanki). A lady of the Taira clan bore Priestly Imperial Prince Junjo, the sixteenth son, Priestly Imperial Prince Jidō (Note: that he is the sixteenth son follows the Shakke Kanpanki and the Shomonzeki-fu), and Priestly Imperial Prince Gyōen (Note: following the Kōin Shōunroku). The court lady Fujiwara-no-Eishi bore Imperial Prince Tsuneakira. Fujiwara-no-Jushi bore Imperial Prince Sadayoshi (Note: following the Kōin Shōunroku and the Ichidai Yōki. The entry for the second year of Kannō in the Entairyaku calls Tsuneakira the emperor's youngest son). A lady of unrecorded clan bore Priestly Imperial Prince Sonchin (Note: following the Kōin Shōunroku and the Shomonzeki-fu). A lady of the Fujiwara clan bore the fifth son, Imperial Prince Moriyoshi (Note: following the Kōin Shōunroku and the Ichidai Yōki. That he is the fifth son follows the Taiheiki).

Imperial Prince Tsuguhito

¶A lady of the Fujiwara clan bore Priestly Imperial Prince Shōe. A lady of the Minamoto clan bore Priestly Imperial Prince Shōkaku. A lady of unrecorded clan bore the monk Dōshō, the nineteenth son, Priestly Imperial Prince Yakushō, and Priestly Imperial Prince Shōyū. A lady of the Fujiwara clan bore Priestly Imperial Prince Kōun. A lady of the Fujiwara clan bore Priestly Imperial Prince Dōchō. A lady of the Fujiwara clan bore Imperial Prince Kaneyoshi. A lady of unrecorded clan bore Dōshō. The mothers of the nineteenth son, Priestly Imperial Prince Yakushō, of the monk Sonsei, and of the twenty-third son, Priestly Imperial Prince Kanson, have not been handed down (Note: following the Kōin Shōunroku. The numbering of nineteenth and twenty-third sons follows the Shakke Kanpanki. The Teiō Hennenki lists two further persons, Ekaku and Morisei, but as they appear in no other work, they are not adopted here).

Imperial Prince Moriyoshi

¶Imperial Prince Tomohito died in the eighth month of the fourth year of Bun'ei (1267), at the age of three (Note: following the Teiō Hennenki and the Ichidai Yōki. The Kōin Shōunroku and the Sonpi Bunmyaku write the age as two).

Imperial Prince Kaneyoshi

¶Imperial Prince Hirohito died in the twelfth month of the first year of Kōan (1278), at the age of three (Note: following the Kōin Shōunroku, the Ichidai Yōki, and the Rekidai Kōki).

Imperial Prince Kanmei

¶Imperial Prince Tsuguhito died in the ninth month of the third year of Kōan (1280) (Note: following the Ichidai Yōki and the Masukagami), at the age of two (Note: following the Rekidai Kōki and the Masukagami). When Tsuguhito was only a few months old, he once accompanied the emperor (Emperor Kameyama) in a procession to the Madenokōji-dono together with Shumeimon'in. At that time the court had just issued an edict ordering frugality, so the carriages in which the emperor and Tsuguhito rode both had their gilding hurriedly stripped off, and the blinds of the carriages were shortened so that they would not trail on the ground. Among the people who saw this by the roadside, there were cases in which carriages with showy ornaments were all smashed by officials. The people took this as an ill omen, and indeed Tsuguhito is said to have died young (Note: following the Masukagami).

Priestly Imperial Prince Ryōjo

¶Imperial Prince Moriyoshi was granted Fourth Rank and became Hyōbu-kyō, Minister of Military Affairs. Later he shaved his head, taking the Buddhist name Kakusei. He was known in the world as the Itsutsuji-no-miya (Note: following the Kōin Shōunroku and the Sonpi Bunmyaku). He lived in seclusion at the foot of Mount Ibuki in Ōmi. At the time of the Genkō Incident, Hōjō Nakatoki fled as far as Ōmi bearing the new emperor, but the local militia took Imperial Prince Moriyoshi as their lord, held Bamba Pass, and met Nakatoki there. Nakatoki and his whole band took their own lives. The new emperor, the two Retired Emperors Go-Fushimi and Hanazono, and the Crown Prince, Imperial Prince Yasuhito, were taken captive (Note: following the Masukagami and the Taiheiki), and after that the whereabouts of Imperial Prince Moriyoshi were not known (Note: the Sonpi Bunmyaku says that he died in the second year of Genkō (1332), which is mistaken).

Monk Dōshō

¶Imperial Prince Kaneyoshi died in the tenth month of the fifth year of Shōō (1292) (Note: following the Sonpi Bunmyaku).

Priestly Imperial Prince Shōun

¶Imperial Prince Tsuneakira was especially cherished by the emperor (Emperor Kameyama) (Note: following the Entairyaku). He was granted First Rank (Note: following the Kōin Shōunroku and the entry for the second year of Kannō in the Entairyaku. The Ichidai Yōki writes Second Rank) and became Shikibu-kyō, Minister of Ceremonial (Note: following the Kōin Shōunroku, the Entairyaku, and the Sonpi Bunmyaku). Later he shaved his head (Note: his Buddhist name has not been handed down). In the ninth month of the sixth year of Shōhei (1351) he died, at the age of forty-nine (Note: following the Entairyaku. The Gogumaiki says that he died in the twenty-second year of Shōhei (1367)). Because Tsuneakira lived at the Tokiwai-dono, he was known in the world as the Tokiwai-no-miya (Note: following the Kōin Shōunroku). His son Takehito became an Imperial Prince, was granted Third Rank (Note: following the Kōin Shōunroku), was appointed Nakatsukasa-kyō, Minister of Central Affairs, and concurrently served as Dazai-no-sotsu, Governor-General of Dazaifu. Ten other sons all left the world and became monks (Note: following the Kōin Shōunroku and the Sonpi Bunmyaku). Takehito's son Mitsuhito also became an Imperial Prince and was appointed Danjō-no-in, Head of the Board of Censors, but he left the world and became a monk (Note: following the Sonpi Bunmyaku). At that time it was said that Mitsuhito dressed up a concubine he favored and presented her to Ashikaga Yoshimitsu, and that he obtained his status as an Imperial Prince through this (Note: following the Gogumaiki).

Priestly Imperial Prince Kakuun

¶Priestly Imperial Prince Ryōjo entered the Shōrenge-in (Note: following the Kōin Shōunroku and the Ichidai Yōki) and became a disciple of Priestly Imperial Prince Sonjo (Note: following the Tendai Zasu-ki). In the first year of Shōan (1299) he became Tendai Zasu (Note: following the Sōkan Bunin and the Tendai Zasu-ki). In the eighth month of the second year of Bunpō (1318) he died, at the age of fifty-one (Note: following the Rekidai Kōki). He was called Jōju-in (Note: following the Kōin Shōunroku and the Sōkan Bunin. Jōju is also written Zenpō). Ryōjo once lived at the Shōjō-in at Tōnomine in Yamato, but later returned to lay life and lived in hiding in Fuyuno village in Yoshino district, calling himself the Tōnomine Ubasoku, and in the end finished his life there. He wrote the Hokekyō-sho, a commentary on the Lotus Sutra, which the scholars of Tendai held in high regard (Note: following the Shomonzeki-fu).

Imperial Prince Sadayoshi

¶The monk Dōshō lived at the Rengekō-in and also at the Sanbō-in (Note: following the Shomonzeki-fu). In the sixth year of Kōan (1283) he became Daigoji Zasu, Head of Daigoji (Note: following the Daigoji Zasu Shidai). Later he became Sōjō, Bishop (Note: following the Kōin Shōunroku). He died young (Note: following the Teiō Hennenki and the Yasui Yoyo Monzeki Shidai). He was called Saiin (Note: following the Shomonzeki-fu), or again Akai-no-miya (Note: following the Kōin Shōunroku, the Teiō Hennenki, and the Yasui Yoyo Monzeki Shidai. The Hennenki writes Priestly Imperial Prince Dōshō, which is mistaken. The Daigoji Zasu Shidai writes Yasui-no-miya).

Priestly Imperial Prince Shōe

¶Priestly Imperial Prince Shōun resided at the Sanbō-in (Note: following the Shomonzeki-fu). He was first Sōjō, Bishop, and later was raised to Imperial Prince (Note: following the Kōin Shōunroku and the Shomonzeki-fu), was granted Second Rank, and served twice as Daigoji Zasu (Note: following the Daigoji Zasu Shidai). In the sixth month of the third year of Shōwa (1314) he died, at the age of forty-four (Note: following the Shomonzeki-fu). He was called Renchi-in (Note: following the Kōin Shōunroku) and also Hōchi-in (Note: following the Ichidai Yōki, the Teiō Hennenki, and the Daigoji Zasu Shidai).

Priestly Imperial Prince Shōkaku

¶Priestly Imperial Prince Kakuun became a disciple of Priestly Imperial Prince Chōkaku, entered Kajii (Note: following the Shakke Kanpanki), and later resided at the Enyūbō (Note: following the Tendai Zasu-ki). In the eighth year of Kōan (1285) he became an Imperial Prince (Note: following the Ichidai Yōki). In the fourth year of Shōwa (1315) he was granted Second Rank directly (Note: following the Shakke Kanpanki). Before and after, he served twice as Tendai Zasu (Note: following the Sōkan Bunin and the Shomonzeki-fu). In the tenth month of the third year of Genkō (1323) he died (Note: following the entry for the second year of Jōwa in the Entairyaku). He was called Bodai-in (Note: following the Teiō Hennenki and the Sōkan Bunin).

Priestly Imperial Prince Shōyū

¶Imperial Prince Sadayoshi left the world and became a monk in the fifth year of Einin (1297), changed his name to Eiun, and lived at Kajii (Note: following the Kōin Shōunroku). He died young (Note: following the Shomonzeki-fu. The Ichidai Yōki treats Eiun as a different person, but this is probably mistaken).

Priestly Imperial Prince Junjo

¶Priestly Imperial Prince Shōe became a disciple of the monk Dōkyō and resided at the Myōhō-in (Note: following the Shomonzeki-fu). In the eighth year of Kōan (1285) he became an Imperial Prince (Note: following the Ichidai Yōki). He was called Kōzuke-no-miya, and also Ayanokōji-no-miya (Note: following the Kōin Shōunroku).

Priestly Imperial Prince Jidō

¶Priestly Imperial Prince Shōkaku resided at the Enman-in (Note: following the Kōin Shōunroku and the Ichidai Yōki) and three times became Chōri, Superior, of Onjōji (Note: following the Sōkan Bunin). He was called Kashiwa-no-miya (Note: following the Teiō Hennenki and the Sōkan Bunin. Under the Enman-in entry in the Shomonzeki-fu it is written that Priestly Imperial Prince Gyōgo was a son of Emperor Kameyama, served as Chōri of Onjōji and Bettō of Shitennōji, and was called Go-Enman-in; he is probably the same person as Priestly Imperial Prince Shōkaku. But as there is no firm proof, it is added here for the time being to await later study).

Priestly Imperial Prince Gyōen

¶Priestly Imperial Prince Shōyū resided at the Rengekō-in (Note: following the Shomonzeki-fu. It is observed that the Kōin Shōunroku and the Ichidai Yōki both say he resided at the Ninnaji, but the Ninnaji Goden has no such record. Probably he first had his head shaved at the Ninnaji and later resided at the Rengekō-in. This cannot now be made clear). He was first Sōjō, Bishop (Note: following the Kōin Shōunroku and the Shomonzeki-fu), and later was called Yusugadani-no-miya. He died young (Note: following the Yasui Yoyo Monzeki Shidai).

Priestly Imperial Prince Kōun

¶Priestly Imperial Prince Junjo resided at the Shōgoin (Note: following the Kōin Shōunroku, the Ichidai Yōki, and the Shomonzeki-fu). He became Chōri, Superior, of Onjōji. In the tenth month of the second year of Genō (1320) he died (Note: following the Kōin Shōunroku).

Priestly Imperial Prince Yakushō

¶Priestly Imperial Prince Jidō became a disciple of the monk Dōgen and resided at the Shōrenge-in (Note: following the Kōin Shōunroku and the Shakke Kanpanki). Three times he was appointed Tendai Zasu (Note: following the Sōkan Bunin and the Tendai Zasu-ki). In the second year of Genō (1320) he was granted Second Rank directly (Note: following the Shakke Kanpanki). Soon he was again appointed Bettō, Administrator, of Shitennōji (Note: following the Sōkan Bunin). In the fourth month of the second year of Kōkoku (1341) he died, and he was called Jūraku-in (Note: following the Ichidai Yōki, the Tendai Zasu-ki, and the Jōrakuki).

Priestly Imperial Prince Dōchō

¶Priestly Imperial Prince Gyōen was at first called Gyōnin (Note: the Ichidai Yōki treats Gyōen as a different person and, moreover, as a son of Emperor Go-Uda, which is probably mistaken). He entered the Shōrenge-in and became a disciple of Priestly Imperial Prince Ryōjo. Later he studied under Priestly Imperial Prince Jidō (Note: following the Kōin Shōunroku). He resided at the Jūraku-in (Note: following the Kōin Shōunroku and the Teiō Hennenki).

Monk Sonsei

¶Priestly Imperial Prince Kōun entered Kajii and resided at the Jōkōji (Note: following the Kōin Shōunroku), and was granted Second Rank. He died young (Note: following the Shomonzeki-fu). He was known in the world as the Ogawa-no-miya (Note: following the Kōin Shōunroku, the Ichidai Yōki, and the Shomonzeki-fu).

Priestly Imperial Prince Kanson

¶Priestly Imperial Prince Yakushō entered the Ninnaji and became a disciple of the monk Yakujo (Note: following the Kōin Shōunroku and the Shomonzeki-fu. The Teiō Hennenki and the Shakke Kanpanki both say he was a disciple of the monk Kyōhan). He resided at the Jōjō-in (Note: following the Kōin Shōunroku, the Ichidai Yōki, the Teiō Hennenki, and the Shomonzeki-fu). In the fourth year of Kōkoku (1343) he was granted Second Rank directly by the Retired Emperor Kōmyō. He was called Henjō-in (Note: following the Shakke Kanpanki).

Priestly Imperial Prince Sonchin

¶Priestly Imperial Prince Dōchō resided at the Jūraku-in (Note: following the Teiō Hennenki).

¶The monk Sonsei resided at the Hōonji (Note: following the Kōin Shōunroku).

¶Priestly Imperial Prince Kanson (Note: following the Kōin Shōunroku, the Shomonzeki-fu, and the Shakke Kanpanki. The Yasui Yoyo Monzeki Shidai writes Kanson with a different first character, which seems to be a mistake) became a disciple of Priestly Imperial Prince Shōen (Note: following the Shakke Kanpanki and the Shomonzeki-fu). He first called himself Kanyū and resided at the Rengekō-in; later he moved to the Daikakuji and became Gon-no-daisōzu, Provisional Senior Assistant Prelate, was then appointed Sōjō, Bishop, as he was, and later became an Imperial Prince (Note: following the Kōin Shōunroku and the Shomonzeki-fu). In the first year of Kōkoku (1340) he was granted Second Rank directly by the Retired Emperor Kōmyō (Note: following the Shakke Kanpanki). At the beginning of Tenju (1375) he advanced to First Rank. After Priestly Imperial Prince Shōnin, it had been rare for a son of an emperor who had entered religion to be granted First Rank, but Kanson fawned on Ashikaga Yoshimitsu and pressed hard for it, and the Retired Emperor Go-Enyū is said to have granted it because he had no choice (Note: following the Ninnaji Hinamiki). Later he became Bettō, Administrator, of Shitennōji, and was called Saiin (Note: following the Kōin Shōunroku).

¶Priestly Imperial Prince Sonchin became a disciple of Priestly Imperial Prince Kakujo (Note: following the Shakke Kanpanki) and resided at the Shōgoin (Note: following the Kōin Shōunroku and the Sōkan Bunin). Again he became Chōri, Superior, of Onjōji (Note: following the Sōkan Bunin). He was accorded rank equivalent to the Sangū, the Three Empresses (Note: following the Shakke Kanpanki and the Shomonzeki-fu). Later he was implicated in an affair, was sent into exile, and died at the place of exile (Note: following the Kōin Shōunroku and the Shomonzeki-fu. It is observed that neither work records the origin of his offense, but probably he was exiled by Hōjō Takatoki).