Prince Munetaka

Prince Munetaka 宗尊親王
Shōgun
In office	10 May 1252 – 22 August 1266
Predecessor	Fujiwara no Yoritsugu
Successor	Prince Koreyasu
Monarch	Go-Fukakusa Kameyama
Shikken	Hōjō Tokiyori Hōjō Nagatoki Hōjō Masamura
Born	15 December 1242 Heian-kyō, Japan
Died	2 September 1274(1274-09-02) (aged 31) Heian-kyō, Japan
Spouses	Konoe Saishi daughter of Horikawa Tomonori
Issue	Prince Koreyasu Princess Rinshi Shingaku, Prince Hayata Princess Zuishi
Father	Emperor Go-Saga
Mother	Taira no Muneko

Prince Munetaka (宗尊親王, Munetaka Shinnō, 15 December 1242 – 2 September 1274) was the sixth shōgun of the Kamakura shogunate of Japan who reigned from 1252 to 1266.

He was the first son of the Emperor Go-Saga and replaced the deposed Fujiwara no Yoritsugu as shōgun at the age of ten. He was a puppet ruler controlled by the Hōjō clan regents.

• 10 May 1252 (Kenchō 4, 1st day of the 4th month): Hōjō Tokiyori and Hōjō Shigetoki sent a representative to imperial capital Kyoto to accompany Munetaka to Kamakura where he would be installed as shogun.
• 22 August 1266 (Bun'ei 3, 20th day of the 7th month): Munetaka was deposed, and his son Koreyasu was installed as the 7th shōgun at the age of two.

The deposed shōgun became a Buddhist monk in 1272. His priestly name was Gyōshō. He was a writer of Waka poetry.

Family

Parents

• Father: Emperor Go-Saga (後嵯峨天皇, Go-Saga-tennō, April 1, 1220 – March 17, 1272)
• Mother: Taira no Muneko (d. 1302), Taira no Munemoto's daughter
  Consorts and issues:

• Wife: Konoe Saiko (近衛 宰子, b. 1241), daughter of Konoe Kanetsune (近衛 兼経)
  • Prince Koreyasu (惟康親王, 26 May 1264 – 25 November 1326), first son
  • Princess Rinshi (掄子女王, b. 1265), Consort of Emperor Go-Uda, first daughter
• Concubine: Horikawa no Tsubone, daughter of Horikawa Tomomori (堀川具教)
  • Prince Hayata (早田宮真覚), second son
  • Princess Mizuko (瑞子女王) later Eikamon'in (永嘉門院; 1272–1329), Consort of Emperor Go-Uda, second daughter

Eras of Munetaka's bakufu

The years in which Munetaka was shogun are more specifically identified by more than one era name or nengō.

• Kenchō (1249–1257)
• Kōgen (1256–1257)
• Shōka (1257–1259)
• Shōgen (1259–1260)
• Bun'ō (1260–1261)
• Kōchō (1261–1264)
• Bun'ei (1264–1275)

References

• Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric and Käthe Roth. (2005). Japan encyclopedia. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-01753-5; OCLC 58053128
• Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). Nihon Ōdai Ichiran; ou, Annales des empereurs du Japon. Paris: Royal Asiatic Society, Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain and Ireland. OCLC 5850691.