, also known as Prince Hisaakira, was the eighth ''

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'' of the

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. He was the nominal ruler controlled by

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regents. He was the father of his successor,

Prince Morikuni was the ninth ''shōgun'' of the Kamakura shogunate of Japan. He was a son of the eighth ''shōgun'' Prince Hisaaki and was a grandson of the Emperor Go-Fukakusa. He was also a puppet ruler controlled by Hōjō Takatoki, who was the Kamakura s ...

. Prince Hisaaki was the son of

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and the younger brother of

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.Titsingh, Isaac. (1834).

Family

* Father:

* Mother: Fujiwara no Fusako * Adopted Father:

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* Wife: daughter of

(d. 1306) * Concubine: Reizei no Tsubone * Children: **

by daughter of

** Prince Hisayoshi (1310–1347) by Reizei no Tsubone ** Prince Hiroaki (d. 1348) ** Prince Kiyozumi

Eras of Hisaaki's ''bakufu''

The years in which Hisaaki is shogun are more specifically identified by more than one

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or ''

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''. * '' Shōō'' (1288–1293) * ''

Einin was a after '' Shōō'' and before ''Shōan.'' This period spanned the years from August 1293 through April 1299. The reigning emperors were and . Change of era * 1293 : The new era name was created to mark an event or a number of events. The ...

'' (1293–1299) * ''

Shōan is an era in Japanese history. This era spanned the years from April 1299 through November 1302. Preceding it was the Einin era, and following it was the Kengen era. The reigning emperors were and . Change of era * 1299 : The new era name was ...

'' (1299–1302) * ''

Kengen was a after ''Shōan'' and before ''Kagen.'' This period spanned the years from November 1302 through August 1303. The reigning emperor was . Change of era * 1302 : The new era name was created to mark an event or a number of events. The prev ...

'' (1302–1303) * ''

Kagen was a after '' Kengen'' and before '' Tokuji.'' This period spanned the years from August 1303 through December 1306. The reigning emperor was . Change of era * 1303 : The new era name was created to mark an event or series of events. The pre ...

'' (1303–1306) * ''

Tokuji was a after ''Kagen'' and before '' Enkyō.'' This period spanned the years from December 1306 through October 1308. The reigning emperor was . Change of era * 1306 : The new era name was created to mark an event or series of events. The pre ...

'' (1306–1308) * '' Enkyō'' (1308–1311)

Notes

References

* Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric and Käthe Roth. (2005)
''Japan encyclopedia''.
Cambridge:

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* Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). ''

Nihon Ōdai Ichiran , ', is a 17th-century chronicle of the serial reigns of Japanese emperors with brief notes about some of the noteworthy events or other happenings. According to the 1871 edition of the ''American Cyclopaedia'', the 1834 French translation of ...

''; ou
''Annales des empereurs du Japon''.
Paris: Royal Asiatic Society, Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain and Ireland
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