Kazan'in Morokata (花山院師賢, 1301–1332) was a nobleman and poet of the

Kamakura period The is a period of Japanese history that marks the governance by the Kamakura shogunate, officially established in 1192 in Kamakura by the first ''shōgun'' Minamoto no Yoritomo after the conclusion of the Genpei War, which saw the struggle bet ...

. The son of Kazan'in Moronobu, he is enshrined at

Komikado Shrine Komikado Shrine (小御門神社, ''Komikado jinja'') is a Shinto shrine located in Narita, Chiba Prefecture, Japan. Its main festival is held annually on April 29. It was founded in 1882, and enshrines the kami of Kazan'in Morokata. It is one of ...

, a

Shinto Shinto () is a religion from Japan. Classified as an East Asian religion by scholars of religion, its practitioners often regard it as Japan's indigenous religion and as a nature religion. Scholars sometimes call its practitioners ''Shintois ...

shrine located in Narita, Chiba Prefecture. Among his children was Kazan'in Iekata.

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Kusunoki Masashige was a Japanese samurai of the Kamakura period remembered as the ideal of samurai loyalty. Kusunoki fought for Emperor Go-Daigo in the Genkō War to overthrow the Kamakura shogunate and restore power in Japan to the Imperial Court. Kusunoki ...

1301 births 1332 deaths People of Kamakura-period Japan 14th-century Japanese poets {{Japan-bio-stub