Kazanin Morokata

Japanese: 花山院師賢 - かざんいん・もろかた

Year of death: 1332 (1st year of Shokei/1st year of Genkō)
Year of birth: 1301
A nobleman in the late Kamakura period. In 1317, he became a councilor, provisional middle counselor, and then a chief counselor of the second rank. In 1324, he participated in Emperor Go-Daigo's first anti-shogunate movement (the Shochu Incident), but failed and retired to seclusion. When Emperor Go-Daigo fled to Nara during the second anti-shogunate movement (the Genko Incident) in 1331, he falsely claimed to be the emperor and ascended to Enryaku-ji Temple on Mount Hiei to gather warrior monks and raise an army in order to deceive the Kamakura side. However, when the warrior monks found out that Michikata was a substitute for the emperor, they dispersed in an instant. Michikata descended from Mount Hiei and went to Kasagi, but the fort at Kasagi soon fell and he was captured by the Kamakura side. In the summer of 1332, he was entrusted to Chiba Sadatane of Shimousa, where he died of illness in October of the same year. He was also a poet, and 49 of his poems are included in the Shinyo Wakashu.

(Kazuhiko Sato)

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Japanese:

没年：正慶1/元弘2.10(1332)
生年：正安3(1301)
鎌倉後期の公卿。文保1(1317)年参議,権中納言を経て,正二位大納言となる。正中1(1324)年,後醍醐天皇の第1次討幕運動(正中の変)に加わったが失敗し,屏居。元弘1(1331)年の第2次討幕運動(元弘の変)の際,後醍醐天皇が南都に逃れるや,鎌倉方の目をくらますため,天皇と詐称して比叡山延暦寺に登り僧兵を集めて挙兵した。しかし,師賢が天皇の替え玉であることを知った僧兵たちは,一瞬にして離散した。師賢は比叡山を下り,笠置に赴いたものの,やがて笠置の砦が陥ち,鎌倉方に捕縛された。正慶1/元弘2(1332)夏,下総の千葉貞胤のもとに預けられ,同年10月に病没した。歌人でもあり『新葉和歌集』に49首が収められている。

(佐藤和彦)

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