Kanesue Imadegawa

Japanese: 今出川兼季 - いまでがわ・かねすえ

Year of death: Rekio 2/Engen 4.1.16 (1339.2.25)
Year of birth: 1281 (4th year of Koan)
A nobleman from the end of the Kamakura period to the period of the Northern and Southern Courts. His father was Saionji Sanekane, Grand Minister of State. His older brother was Saionji Kinhira. He served as chamberlain, Left Shosho, councilor, etc., and in 1322 he became Minister of the Right. He was involved in supporting Emperor Kogon of the Northern Court, and in 1332 he became Grand Minister of State, but with the start of the Kenmu Restoration, this appointment was revoked and he was made former Minister of the Right. In 1338 he became a monk, taking the Buddhist name Kakusei. At the command of his father Sanekane, Kanesuke became the heir to his older brother Imadegawa Kinaki, and so he took the family name Imadegawa, becoming the founder of the Imadegawa clan. As he planted many chrysanthemums in his residence, he was known as Kikutei Nyudo and Kikutei Udaijin, and later the Imadegawa clan also adopted Kikutei as their family name.

(Masaaki Komori)

Source: Asahi Japanese Historical Biography: Asahi Shimbun Publications Inc. About Asahi Japanese Historical Biography

Japanese:

没年：暦応2/延元4.1.16(1339.2.25)
生年：弘安4(1281)
鎌倉末・南北朝期の公卿。父は太政大臣西園寺実兼。兄に西園寺公衡がいる。侍従,左少将,参議などを歴任し,元亨2(1322)年右大臣。北朝の光厳天皇擁立に関与し,正慶1/元弘2(1332)年に太政大臣となったが,建武新政の発足により,この任官は取り消されて前右大臣とされた。暦応1/延元3(1338)年出家,法名覚静。兼季は父実兼の命で兄今出川公顕の嗣子となったため家号を今出川と称し,今出川家の祖となった。邸内に菊を多く植えたことから菊亭入道,菊亭右大臣と称され,のちに今出川家も菊亭を家号とする。

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