was a Japanese ''
kugyō
is the collective term for the very few most powerful men attached to the court of the Emperor of Japan in pre-Meiji eras. The term generally referred to the and court officials and denoted a court rank between First Rank and Third Rank un ...
'' (court noble) of the
Kamakura period
The is a period of History of Japan, Japanese history that marks the governance by the Kamakura shogunate, officially established in 1192 in Kamakura, Kanagawa, Kamakura by the first ''shōgun'' Minamoto no Yoritomo after the conclusion of the G ...
.
[ Titsingh, Isaac. (1834)]
''Annales des empereurs du Japon,'' p. 270
He was a member of the
Nijō family
is a Japanese aristocratic kin group. Papinot, Jacques Edmond Joseph. (1906). ''Dictionnaire d’histoire et de géographie du Japon''; Papinot, (2003)"Nijō," ''Nobiliare du Japon'', p. 42 retrieved 2013-7-7. The Nijō was a branch of the Fuji ...
, which was a branch of the
Fujiwara clan
The was a powerful family of imperial regents in Japan, descending from the Nakatomi clan and, as legend held, through them their ancestral god Ame-no-Koyane. The Fujiwara prospered since ancient times and dominated the imperial court until th ...
.
[ Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005)]
"Nijō"
in ''Japan Encyclopedia'', p. 711.
Early life
Morotada was the son of regent
Nijō Yoshizane
, son of regent Kujō Michiie, was a Japanese ''kugyō'' (court noble) of the Kamakura period (1185–1333) of Japan
Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean off the northeast coast of the Asia, Asian mainland ...
.
Career
During the reign of
Emperor Fushimi
was the 92nd emperor of Japan, according to the traditional order of succession. His reign spanned the years from 1287 through 1298.
Name
Before his ascension to the Chrysanthemum Throne, his personal name (his ''imina'') was .
Although the ...
, he was
kampaku from 1287 to 1289.
He adopted
Nijō Kanemoto as his son.
See also
*
Japanese clans
This is a list of Japanese clans. The old clans (''gōzoku'') mentioned in the ''Nihon Shoki'' and ''Kojiki'' lost their political power before the Heian period, during which new aristocracies and families, ''kuge'', emerged in their place. After ...
*
List of Kuge families
References
External links
二条家（摂家）at ReichsArchiv.jp
1254 births
1341 deaths
Fujiwara clan
Morotada
People of the Kamakura period
People of the Nanboku-chō period
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