Prince Kaneyoshi
| Prince Kaneyoshi | |
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| Reign | 1336-1372 |
| Successor | Prince Yoshinari |
| Born | 1329 |
| Died | 30 April 1383 (aged 54) |
| Father | Emperor Go-Daigo |
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Prince Kaneyoshi (懐良親王, Kaneyoshi shinnō or Kanenaga shinnō, b. c. 1329 – 30 April 1383) was a nobleman of the Kamakura period and the early Nanboku-chō period of Japanese history. The son of Emperor Go-Daigo, he is enshrined at the Yatsushiro-gū, a Shinto shrine located in Yatsushiro, Kumamoto Prefecture.
In 1336, Go-Daigo sent the prince, at seven years of age, to Kyushu as Chinzei Shogun (Commander-in-Chief of the Western Defense Area). There he became a loyalist force to be reckoned with until his death.[1]
References[]
- ^ Sansom, George (1961). A History of Japan, 1334-1615. Stanford University Press. pp. 71–75, 97, 109–112. ISBN 0804705259.
- Amino Yoshihiko and Alan Christy (trans.), Rethinking Japanese History, Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan (2012), pp. 269–270.
External links[]
- Samurai Archives entry
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- 1383 deaths
- People of Kamakura-period Japan
- Deified Japanese people
- 1329 births