was the ninth ''

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'' of the

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. He was a son of the eighth ''shōgun''

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and was a grandson of the

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. He was also a

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controlled by

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, who was the

's ''shikken'' or chief minister. His mother was daughter of

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who died in 1306. After the collapse of the Kamakura

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, he became a

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priest. He died shortly afterwards. The Kamakura shogunate was succeeded by the

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Eras of Morikuni's ''bakufu''

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or ''

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''.Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). :Pre''-Nanboku-chō'' court * '' Enkyō'' (1308–1311) * ''

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'' (1311–1312) * '' Shōwa'' (1312–1317) * ''

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'' (1317–1319) * ''

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'' (1319–1321) * '' Genkō'' (1321–1324) * ''

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'' (1324–1326) * ''

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''(1326–1329) * ''

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'' (1329–1331) * '' Genkō'' (1331–1334) :''Nanboku-chō'' southern court *Eras as reckoned by legitimate Court (as determined by Meiji rescript) :''Nanboku-chō'' northern Court *Eras as reckoned by pretender Court (as determined by Meiji rescript) ** '' Shōkei'' (1332–1338)

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References

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

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''Annales des empereurs du Japon''.
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