Imperial Princes XIII

[Go-Uda] Three Sons

¶Emperor Go-Uda had five sons. The Miyahito, Court Lady, Minamoto-no-Motoko bore Emperor Go-Nijō. The Naishi-no-suke, Handmaid, Fujiwara-no-Tadako bore Emperor Go-Daigo (Note: following the Kōin Shōunroku, the Rekidai Kōki, and the Ichidai Yōki), Priestly Imperial Prince Jōkaku (Note: following the Kōin Shōunroku), and the fourth son, Priestly Imperial Prince Shōen (Note: following the Shomonzeki-fu. That he was the fourth son follows the Shakke Kanpanki. The Ichidai Yōki records that Priestly Imperial Prince Gyōen was a younger brother of Emperor Go-Daigo by the same mother, but since this appears in none of the other books it is not adopted). A Court Lady of the Fujiwara clan bore Imperial Prince Yoshiharu (Note: following the Kōin Shōunroku).

Priestly Imperial Prince Jōkaku

¶In the first year of Kengen (1302) (Note: following the Kikkoki), Priestly Imperial Prince Jōkaku entered the Kajii and received instruction from the monk Sonchū (Note: following the Shomonzeki-fu and the Kikkoki). In the second year of Shōchū (1325) he was appointed Tendai Zasu, Head of the Tendai school (Note: following the Tendai Zasuki and the Sōkan Bunin), and was granted Second Rank (Note: following the Kōin Shōunroku and the Shomonzeki-fu). He was called Irie-no-miya (Note: following the Teiō Hennenki and the Kōin Shōunroku), and also Kita-Shirakawa-no-miya (Note: following the Kōin Shōunroku).

Priestly Imperial Prince Shōen

¶Priestly Imperial Prince Shōen entered the Yasui and received the Law from Priestly Imperial Prince Shōyū. In the second year of Gen'ō (1320) he was granted Second Rank directly. When Emperor Go-Uda abdicated, a residence was built for him beside the Daikakuji, and he was settled there (Note: following the Jinnō Shōtōki and the Masukagami). Shōen was especially favored by the emperor, was summoned to attend at his side (Note: following the Masukagami), and was himself given the secret teachings of the Shingon school (Note: following the Kōin Shōunroku; see also the Masukagami). When the emperor died, several villages were donated to the Daikakuji and Shōen was settled there (Note: following the Masukagami; see also the Shomonzeki-fu). In the third month of the second year of Shōhei (1347) he died, at the age of fifty-six. He was given the title Nanchi-in (Note: following the Daikakuji Monzeki Ryakki).

Imperial Prince Yoshiharu

¶Imperial Prince Yoshiharu shaved his head, changed his name to Shōshō, and lived at the Daikakuji (Note: following the Daikakuji Monzeki Ryakki).

[Fushimi] Seven Sons

¶Emperor Fushimi had nine sons. The Miyahito, Court Lady, Fujiwara-no-Sueko bore Emperor Hanazono (Note: following the Kōin Shōunroku and the Ichidai Yōki) and the second son, Priestly Imperial Prince Kanshō (Note: following the Ninnaji Goden and the Shomonzeki-fu. Both books call him the third son, but judging from the year of his death he was born before Emperor Hanazono, so he is listed here as the second son). Fujiwara-no-Tsuneko bore Emperor Go-Fushimi (Note: following the Kōin Shōunroku and the Rekidai Kōki). A certain Naishi-no-jō, Junior Handmaid, bore the sixth son, Imperial Prince Songen (Note: following the Shomonzeki-fu). A Court Lady of the Minamoto clan bore the fifth son, Imperial Prince Kichiei (Note: following the Shomonzeki-fu). A woman of the Fujiwara clan bore Priestly Imperial Prince Dōki. A certain woman bore Priestly Imperial Prince Ejo. A woman of the Fujiwara clan bore Priestly Imperial Prince Sonki. A certain woman bore the tenth son, Priestly Imperial Prince Shōchin (Note: that he was the tenth son follows the Shakke Kanpanki). Another was not recorded with his mother's clan and died young (Note: following the Kōin Shōunroku. The present text of the Shōunroku lists, as a twelfth son, a certain prince of the monk Kan'in, but since this does not agree with the other books it is not adopted).

Priestly Imperial Prince Kanshō

¶Priestly Imperial Prince Kanshō was first named Koreinaga (Note: following the Kōin Shōunroku and the Shomonzeki-fu). In the sixth year of Einin (1298) he entered the Ninnaji (Note: following the Ninnaji Goden) and received instruction from Priestly Imperial Prince Shōnin (Note: following the Ninnaji Goden and the Shakke Kanpanki). In the second year of Shōan (1300) he became an Imperial Prince. Soon afterwards he shaved his head and took the name he now bears. In the third year of Kagen (1305) he became Isshin Ajari, an Acharya of the special distinction, and by edict was appointed Kengyō, Inspector, of the Rokushōji (Note: following the Ninnaji Goden). In the first year of Ōchō (1311) he was granted Second Rank directly, and in the third year of Engen (1338), by order of Kōmyō-in, he advanced to First Rank (Note: following the Ninnaji Goden and the Shakke Kanpanki). In the ninth month of the first year of Shōhei (1346) he died, at the age of fifty-eight (Note: following the Entairyaku and the Ninnaji Goden. The Shomonzeki-fu and the Shakke Kanpanki both say that he died in the eighteenth year of Shōhei (1363) at the age of seventy-five, but this is probably mistaken). He was called Jōyuga-in-no-Omuro (Note: following the Ninnaji Goden and the Shomonzeki-fu), and also Emyō-in-no-Omuro (Note: following the Ninnaji Goden and the Shakke Kanpanki).

Priestly Imperial Prince Ejo

¶Priestly Imperial Prince Ejo lived at the Shōgoin (Note: following the Shomonzeki-fu and the Ichidai Yōki. The Teiō Hennenki gives Gōjo). He became Onjōji Chōri, Chief Prelate of the Onjōji (Note: following the Kōin Shōunroku and the Sōkan Bunin).

Imperial Prince Kichiei

¶Imperial Prince Kichiei became an Imperial Prince in the third year of Enkyō (1310) and received the Law from Priestly Imperial Prince Kōjo. In the second year of Shōwa (1313) he shaved his head, changed his name to Songo, and lived at the Enman-in. In the fourth year of Engen (1339), he was granted Second Rank directly by Kōmyō-in (Note: following the Shakke Kanpanki), and three times became Onjōji Chōri (Note: following the Kōin Shōunroku and the Sōkan Bunin). In the eleventh year of Shōhei (1356) he became Shitennōji Bettō, Administrator of the Shitennōji, and died in the fourth month (Note: following the Sōkan Bunin). He was called Go-Byōdōin-no-miya (Note: following the Shomonzeki-fu).

Imperial Prince Songen

¶Imperial Prince Songen (Note: following the Shomonzeki-fu and the Shakke Kanpanki. The Kōin Shōunroku writes Songen as Shugen) became an Imperial Prince in the third year of Enkyō (1310) (Note: following the Shakke Kanpanki). Soon afterwards he entered the Shōrengein (Note: following the Shakke Kanpanki, the Shomonzeki-fu, and the Sōkan Bunin) and received instruction from Priestly Imperial Prince Jidō. In the first year of Ōchō (1311) he shaved his head, changed his name to Son'en, and lived at the Daijōin. In the fourth year of Engen (1339), he was granted Second Rank directly by Kōmyō-in (Note: following the Shakke Kanpanki), was appointed Tendai Zasu four times (Note: following the Tendai Zasuki and the Sōkan Bunin), and became Shitennōji Bettō (Note: following the Sōkan Bunin). In the ninth month of the eleventh year of Shōhei (1356) he died (Note: following the Shomonzeki-fu, the Entairyaku, and the Shakke Kanpanki), at the age of fifty-nine (Note: following the Shomonzeki-fu and the Shakke Kanpanki). Go-Kōgon-in granted him posthumously First Rank (Note: following the Jōrakuki). Songen excelled at waka (Note: following the Shomonzeki-fu and the Entairyaku), possessed many talents and arts, and was especially outstanding in calligraphy (Note: following the Yasutomi-ki for the third year of Kyōtoku and the Sekiso Ōrai). It is said that the calligraphy of court and country was transformed by him (Note: following the Bunroku Seidan). By order of Go-Kōgon-in he compiled the Shakke Kanpanki in two volumes (Note: following the postscript to that book and the Ninnaji Shoseki Mokuroku).

Priestly Imperial Prince Dōki

¶Priestly Imperial Prince Dōki lived at the Jūrakuin (Note: following the Teiō Hennenki).

Priestly Imperial Prince Sonki

¶Priestly Imperial Prince Sonki lived at the Keienin (Note: following the Kōin Shōunroku).

Priestly Imperial Prince Shōchin

¶Priestly Imperial Prince Shōchin received the Law from the monk Shōjin (Note: following the Shakke Kanpanki and the Shorei-shō) and lived at the Sanbōin (Note: following the Shomonzeki-fu). In the second year of Gentoku (1330) he became an Imperial Prince (Note: following the Shomonzeki-fu and the Shakke Kanpanki). Later he also took over the Tōnanin (Note: following the Kōin Shōunroku, the Ichidai Yōki, the Shakke Kanpanki, and the Shorei-shō), and became Tōdaiji Bettō and Tōji Ichi-no-Chōja, First Elder of the Tōji. This was the first time that an Imperial Prince became Tōji Chōja (Note: following the Shakke Kanpanki and the Shorei-shō).

[Go-Fushimi] Nine Sons

¶Emperor Go-Fushimi had eleven sons. His Nyōgo, Consort, Fujiwara-no-Yasuko bore Kōgon-in and Kōmyō-in (Note: following the Kōin Shōunroku and the Ichidai Yōki) and Imperial Prince Kagehito (Note: following the Kōin Shōunroku). A Court Lady of the Fujiwara clan bore the sixth son, Priestly Imperial Prince Chōjo (Note: that he was the sixth son follows the Shomonzeki-fu), the seventh son, Priestly Imperial Prince Kan'in (Note: that he was the seventh son follows the Shakke Kanpanki. Looking at the present text of the Shōunroku, it also lists the monk Kan'in as a son of Emperor Fushimi and says he was born to the Chūnagon-no-tsubone, a lady-in-waiting attached to Eifuku-mon'in, but this is probably mistaken), Priestly Imperial Prince Jōin, and Priestly Imperial Prince Ryōshō (Note: following the Kōin Shōunroku and the Sonpi Bunmyaku). A woman of the Fujiwara clan bore the tenth son, Priestly Imperial Prince Son'jitsu (Note: following the Kōin Shōunroku. That he was the tenth son follows the Shomonzeki-fu. The Sonpi Bunmyaku says he was born to the Higashi-no-Onkata) and the eleventh son, Imperial Prince Sonshō (Note: following the Kōin Shōunroku and the Sonpi Bunmyaku. That he was the eleventh son follows the Shomonzeki-fu). A woman of the Takashina clan bore the thirteenth son, Imperial Prince Neiei (Note: following the Ninnaji Goden and the Shomonzeki-fu). A woman of a certain clan bore the fourth son, Priestly Imperial Prince Son'in (Note: following the Kōin Shōunroku. That he was the fourth son follows the Shakke Kanpanki).

Priestly Imperial Prince Neiei

¶Imperial Prince Neiei entered the Ninnaji in the third year of Shōwa (1314) and received the Law from Priestly Imperial Prince Kanshō. In the second year of Gen'ō (1320) he became an Imperial Prince. In the first year of Genkō (1321) he shaved his head and changed his name to Hōshu (Note: following the Ninnaji Goden). In the second year of Karyaku (1327) he was granted Second Rank directly (Note: following the Shakke Kanpanki and the Ninnaji Goden). In the second year of Engen (1337), by order of Kōmyō-in, he was appointed Kengyō of the Rokushōji, and in the fifth year of Tenju (1379), by order of Go-En'yū-in, he advanced to First Rank. In the ninth month of the eighth year of Genchū (1391) he died, at the age of eighty-four. He was called Zengain-no-Omuro (Note: following the Ninnaji Goden. The Jōrakuki gives his age as eighty-nine).

Priestly Imperial Prince Son'in

¶Priestly Imperial Prince Son'in received instruction from Priestly Imperial Prince Jōchin and lived at the Kajii (Note: following the Shakke Kanpanki and the Shomonzeki-fu). In the third year of Genkō (1333), by order of Kōgon-in, he was appointed Tendai Zasu (Note: following the Sōkan Bunin and the Tendai Zasuki. The Taiheiki gives the second year of Genkō). When the imperial army attacked Hōjō-no-Nakatoki and the others in the capital, Son'in was at Rokuhara in the company of Kōgon-in, and practiced the Buddhist rites, praying for unseen protection. When the imperial army defeated them, he fled east with Kōgon-in and reached Shinohara, but the monks in his retinue were wounded or ran away, and only two monks, Keichō and Jōshō, remained with him. Son'in gave the horse he was riding to the master of the inn and went on foot toward Ise; after more than a month he returned and lived at the Byakugōin (Note: following the Taiheiki). In the first year of Engen (1336) he was appointed Zasu a second time. In the first year of Kōkoku (1340) he was granted Second Rank directly by Kōmyō-in (Note: following the Shakke Kanpanki). In the seventh year of Shōhei (1352) he was captured by the imperial army together with the three retired emperors Kōgon, Kōmyō, and Sukō, and Son'in was held at the foot of Mount Kongō. When Go-Kōgon-in claimed the title of emperor, a secret plan was made to take Son'in back (Note: following the Taiheiki. The reading "Imagōsan" comes from a variant text of the Taiheiki). Among Son'in's disciples was the Risshi (Master of the Precepts) Genyū, who disguised himself as a shugenja, a mountain ascetic, went to Mount Kongō, and secretly made contact with Son'in. Son'in then pretended to be ill and took to his bed. After several days he made it appear that his illness had worsened, and as there was no medicine in the mountains, the guards consulted together and decided that the illness should be driven out by prayer; they sent men out in all directions to wait at the foot of the mountain for a shugenja to pass by, and they happened upon Genyū and climbed the mountain together with him. Genyū performed prayers for two days, whereupon Son'in said falsely that he had recovered, and that very night wine was prepared to celebrate. When the guards were thoroughly drunk, Genyū put Son'in into his oi, the box carried on the back, shouldered it, and left the mountain, and so at last they escaped and made their way home (Note: following the Yoshino Shūi). Son'in was Zasu four times (Note: following the Sōkan Bunin and the Tendai Zasuki. The Shomonzeki-fu says he was appointed Zasu three times). In the fifth month of the fourteenth year (1359) he died (Note: following the Taiheiki and the Jōrakuki).

Imperial Prince Kagehito

¶Imperial Prince Kagehito shaved his head, changed his name to Ningo, and lived at the Enman-in (Note: following the Kōin Shōunroku).

Priestly Imperial Prince Chōjo

¶Priestly Imperial Prince Chōjo lived at the Enman-in and three times became Onjōji Chōri (Note: following the Shomonzeki-fu and the Sōkan Bunin).

Priestly Imperial Prince Kan'in

¶Priestly Imperial Prince Kan'in lived at the Anshōji and became Kanjūji Bettō (Note: following the Shomonzeki-fu). In the second year of Engen (1337) he received the rank of Imperial Prince from Kōgon-in. This was the first time that an Imperial Prince became Kanjūji Bettō (Note: following the Shakke Kanpanki). Later he was granted Second Rank (Note: following the Shomonzeki-fu and the Jōrakuki), and in the fourth month of the second year of Tenju (1376) he died (Note: following the Jōrakuki). He was called Go-Anshōji (Note: following the Shomonzeki-fu).

Priestly Imperial Prince Jōin

¶Priestly Imperial Prince Jōin lived at the Kajii (Note: following the Kōin Shōunroku and the Sōkan Bunin), and was appointed Tendai Zasu three times (Note: following the Sōkan Bunin and the Tendai Zasuki. The Shomonzeki-fu says he was Zasu four times). In the fourth month of the third year of Tenju (1377) he died (Note: following the Gogumaiki), and was called Kōjuin (Note: following the Go-Shinshin'in Kampakuki).

Priestly Imperial Prince Ryōshō

¶Priestly Imperial Prince Ryōshō lived at the Myōhōin and was granted Second Rank (Note: following the Kōin Shōunroku and the Shomonzeki-fu). In the first year of Shōhei (1346) he was appointed Tendai Zasu (Note: following the Shomonzeki-fu, the Sōkan Bunin, the Tendai Zasuki, and the Entairyaku).

Priestly Imperial Prince Son'jitsu

¶Priestly Imperial Prince Son'jitsu was first named Jishin and lived at the Shōrengein (Note: following the Kōin Shōunroku and the Shomonzeki-fu).

Imperial Prince Sonshō

¶In the second year of Kōkoku (1341), Imperial Prince Sonshō received the rank of Imperial Prince from Kōmyō-in (Note: following the Shakke Kanpanki) and entered the Shōrengein (Note: following the Sōkan Bunin and the Shomonzeki-fu). He shaved his head and changed his name to Sondō. He lived at the Jūrakuin, and also at the Myōkōin, was granted First Rank, and became Tendai Zasu three times (Note: following the Tendai Zasuki). In the seventh month of the seventh year of Ōei (1400) he died (Note: following the Shomonzeki-fu), at the age of seventy-two (Note: reckoned from the statement in the Shakke Kanpanki, under the fourth year of Ryakuō, that he was ten years old).

[Go-Nijō] Five Sons

¶Emperor Go-Nijō had five sons. The Miyahito, Court Lady, Fujiwara-no-Muneko bore the first son, Crown Prince Kuniyoshi (Note: following the Kōin Shōunroku, the Ichidai Yōki, and the Rekidai Kōki. That he was the first son follows the Rekidai Kōki and the Jinnō Shōtōki) and Imperial Prince Kunimi (Note: following the Kōin Shōyūron [sic; apparently the Kōin Shōunroku] and the Sonpi Bunmyaku). A woman of the Fujiwara clan bore the third son, Imperial Prince Yūjo (Note: following the Shomonzeki-fu) and the fifth son, Priestly Imperial Prince Shōson (Note: that he was the fifth son follows the Shomonzeki-fu). A woman of the Fujiwara clan, of the Mikushigedono, the Imperial Wardrobe, bore Priestly Imperial Prince Sonsai (Note: following the Kōin Shōunroku, the Ichidai Yōki, and the Shomonzeki-fu).

Crown Prince Kuniyoshi

¶Crown Prince Kuniyoshi was called in childhood Koreyoshi (Note: following the Ichidai Yōki. The Rekidai Kōki writes "yoshi" with a different character, and the Sonpi Bunmyaku with yet another). In the first year of Kengen (1302) he became an Imperial Prince and was granted First Rank (Note: following the Shōun Ryakuyō). When Go-Nijō died, Kuniyoshi should by right have succeeded to the throne, but because Hōjō-no-Sadatoki had long before put forward the proposal of alternating succession between the two lines, in the end Emperor Hanazono was set up (Note: following the Baishōron; see also the Jinnō Shōtōki). The Retired Emperor Go-Uda took deep pity on Kuniyoshi, and as the consort of Kuniyoshi's father, Eika-mon'in, had no children, he had her bring Kuniyoshi up and always kept him at court (Note: following the Masukagami). When the time came for Emperor Hanazono to settle the imperial succession, court deliberation was in favor of setting up Kuniyoshi. But the Retired Emperor reasoned thus: "Kuniyoshi now suffers from an illness of the legs, and it would be difficult to place him in the Crown Prince's seat at once. Moreover, Imperial Prince Takaharu (later Emperor Go-Daigo) is the one the late emperor had always wished to set up, so he should be set up first." In the end he ordered that Go-Daigo be set up. He then sent a letter to Emperor Go-Daigo and had him promise: "On the day the successor is to be named, you must without fail name Kuniyoshi. If Kuniyoshi cannot be named, choose from among his sons and name one of them." It happened that Hōjō-no-Takatoki also memorialized that "Kuniyoshi should be set up as Crown Prince" (Note: following the Taiheiki). In the third month of the second year of Bunpō (1318) he was at last installed as Crown Prince, and was ordered to hold the capping ceremony (Note: following the Kōin Shōunroku, the Ichidai Yōki, and the Rekidai Kōki). Soon afterwards the Retired Emperor fell ill and was close to death, and Kuniyoshi came to attend him and nurse him. The Retired Emperor had long known that Emperor Go-Daigo did not love Kuniyoshi, and secretly feared for his future. When he met Kuniyoshi he showed his pity for a long time, imparted to him orally the essentials of governing, and gave him earnest warnings. Previously, the emperors of successive reigns had often changed, and all had been young and unpracticed in affairs of state. The Retired Emperor had taken part in government for many years, but by this time he had already newly handed government over to the emperor. In the meantime, among the ministers within and without, favor and rank had risen and fallen with the times, and not a few were left in disappointment. Former Dainagon Fujiwara-no-Tsunetsugu, Chūnagon Minamoto-no-Aritada, Uemon-no-kami Fujiwara-no-Norisada, and Saemon-no-suke Fujiwara-no-Toshiaki were all men on whom the Retired Emperor had looked kindly, but all lamented their lack of advancement. The Retired Emperor had always pitied them but had not been able to employ them as he wished. He therefore entrusted them to Kuniyoshi with great care, telling him to appoint every one of them when the day of his accession came. Kuniyoshi, moved, received the teaching and withdrew. When the Retired Emperor died, Kuniyoshi grieved and longed for him, and devoted himself wholeheartedly to memorial services (Note: following the Masukagami). He then sent Minamoto-no-Aritada to Kamakura and secretly planned his accession. Hōjō-no-Takatoki also discussed setting Kuniyoshi up (Note: see also the Jinnō Shōtōki and the Masukagami). In the third month of the first year of Karyaku (1326) Kuniyoshi died of illness (Note: following the Masukagami), at the age of twenty-seven (Note: following the Rekidai Kōki and the Kōnendai Ryakki. The Kōin Shōunroku gives twenty). By his dying instruction he declined a posthumous title. Kuniyoshi was gentle by nature, and among those inside and outside the court there was none who did not love him. When he died, more than thirty of his attending officials and of the ladies-in-waiting at his side left the world and took Buddhist vows. All the people of the time said, "Men have indeed left the world in disgust and taken vows, but never before has there been anything like this."

¶Kuniyoshi first took as his consort a daughter of Naidaijin Minamoto-no-Michishige, and the consort, after being with child for eighteen months, bore a son, but both mother and child died. Next he married Imperial Princess Baishi, but there were no children (Note: following the Masukagami). His concubines bore six children. The eldest son, Yasuhito, was appointed Nakatsukasa-kyō, Head of the Ministry of Central Affairs (Note: following the Kōin Shōunroku and the Sonpi Bunmyaku). In the first year of Genkō (1331) he received the rank of Imperial Prince from Kōgon-in (Note: following the Rekidai Kōki) and in the eleventh month was installed as Crown Prince (Note: following the Rekidai Kōki, the Kōnendai Ryakki, and the Masukagami). When the imperial army attacked Hōjō-no-Nakatoki and the others in the capital, he went with Kōgon-in into Rokuhara, but was defeated in battle and captured, and was deposed together with Kōgon-in (Note: following the Masukagami and the Taiheiki). Afterwards he lived at Kidera (Note: following the Kōin Shōunroku and the Sonpi Bunmyaku). In the fourth month of the tenth year of Shōhei (1355) he died, at the age of thirty-six (Note: following the Entairyaku). The second son, Kuniyo, also became an Imperial Prince, was granted Third Rank, and was appointed Ujibe-kyō, Head of the Bureau of Clan Affairs. Of the other sons, some became monks and some died young. A daughter was Imperial Princess Keishi (Note: following the Kōin Shōunroku and the Sonpi Bunmyaku).

Imperial Prince Kunimi

¶Imperial Prince Kunimi was brought up by Dainagon Fujiwara-no-Tsunetsugu (Note: following the Ichidai Yōki. The Kōin Shōunroku gives Minamoto-no-Aritada in place of Tsunetsugu). He was granted Third Rank (Note: following the Kōin Shōunroku, the Ichidai Yōki, and the Sonpi Bunmyaku) and became Shikibu-kyō, Head of the Ministry of Ceremonial (Note: following the Kōin Shōunroku and the Go-Shinshin'in Kampakuki. The Ichidai Yōki gives Hyōbu-kyō, Head of the Ministry of War). He also became Danjō-no-in, Head of the Board of Censors, and was called Hanamachi-no-miya (Note: following the Sonpi Bunmyaku). Later he shaved his head. In the ninth month of the first year of Tenju (1375) he died. Kunimi excelled at waka, and his poems were included in each of the five imperial anthologies from the Shokusenzaishū onward, which people of the time regarded as an honor (Note: following the Go-Shinshin'in Kampakuki).

Priestly Imperial Prince Yūjo

¶Priestly Imperial Prince Yūjo was brought up by Dajō-daijin Kintaka (Note: following the Ichidai Yōki), lived at the Shōrengein (Note: following the Tendai Zasuki and the Shomonzeki-fu), and also at times at the Keirinin (Note: following the Kōin Shōunroku, the Tendai Zasuki, and the Sōkan Bunin). In the second year of Kōkoku (1341), by order of Kōmyō-in, he was appointed Tendai Zasu (Note: following the Tendai Zasuki and the Sōkan Bunin).

Priestly Imperial Prince Sonsai

¶Priestly Imperial Prince Sonsai was first named Eison (Note: following the Shomonzeki-fu. The Kōin Shōunroku and the Sonpi Bunmyaku write "sai" with a different character). He lived at the Enman-in (Note: following the Sonpi Bunmyaku, the Ichidai Yōki, and the Shomonzeki-fu).

Priestly Imperial Prince Shōson

¶Priestly Imperial Prince Shōson lived at the Sanbōin (Note: both the Kōin Shōunroku and the Sonpi Bunmyaku say he lived at the Henjōin of the Ninnaji), and received the precepts at the Enryakuji (Note: following the Shomonzeki-fu). Later he was granted Second Rank (Note: following the Shinyō Wakashū). In the ninth month of the first year of Kentoku (1370) he died, at the age of sixty-eight (Note: following the Shomonzeki-fu).

[Hanazono] Three Sons

¶Emperor Hanazono had three sons. The Miyahito, Court Lady, Fujiwara-no-Saneko bore the first son, Imperial Prince Michihito (Note: that he was the first son follows the Chin'yōki) and the third son, Imperial Prince Narinaga (Note: that he was the third son follows the Shomonzeki-fu). A woman of the Fujiwara clan bore Priestly Imperial Prince Yo (Note: following the Kōin Shōunroku, the Sonpi Bunmyaku, and the Entairyaku. The present text of the Shōunroku lists six sons of the emperor, but of these it gives neither name nor mother's clan for three. It also says that one prince lived at the Shōgoin, but this appears nowhere in the other books, so it is not adopted).

Imperial Prince Naohito

¶In the tenth month of the third year of Shōhei (1348), Imperial Prince Naohito was set up by Sukō-in as Crown Brother (Note: following the Kōnendai Ryakki, the Rekidai Kōki, and the Entairyaku under the fourth year of Jōwa. The Kōin Shōunroku says Crown Prince). When Ashikaga Takauji returned to allegiance to the court, he was deposed together with Sukō-in, and both were confined at Anō (Note: following the Kōnendai Ryakki, the Taiheiki, and the Entairyaku). Later he was pardoned and returned to the capital (Note: following the Kōnendai Ryakki, the Taiheiki, and the Chin'yōki). Soon afterwards he left the world (Note: following the Kōin Shōunroku). In the fifth month of the fifth year of Ōei (1398) he died, and was called Hagiwara-dono. He had a son, who also left the world (Note: following the Chin'yōki).

Priestly Imperial Prince Kakuyo

¶Priestly Imperial Prince Kakuyo lived at the Shōgoin (Note: following the Kōin Shōunroku and the Shomonzeki-fu). He was appointed Onjōji Chōri and became Shitennōji Bettō (Note: following the Sōkan Bunin). He was granted Second Rank. In the first year of Kōwa (1381) he died (Note: following the Gogumaiki).

Imperial Prince Narinaga

¶In the second year of Engen (1337), Imperial Prince Narinaga received the rank of Imperial Prince from Kōmyō-in. In the fourth year of Kōkoku (1343) he entered the Ninnaji, shaved his head, and changed his name to Gensho. In the first month of the eighth year of Shōhei (1353) he died, at the age of twenty-seven (Note: following the Ninnaji Goden. The Shomonzeki-fu says twenty-six, which is mistaken).