Prince Muneyoshi

Japanese: 宗良親王 - むねよししんのう

Year of death: Unknown (Year of death unknown)
Year of birth: 1311
He was the son of Emperor Go-Daigo, and his mother was the daughter of Nijō Tameyo. He first entered Myoho-in Temple, became a monk, took the name Sonjō Hoshinnō, and succeeded the head priest of the same temple, and later became the head priest of Tendai. When his father the emperor began his anti-shogunate activities, he joined him, and after the Genkō Incident (1331), he was exiled to Sanuki (Kagawa Prefecture) by the Kamakura shogunate. He returned to Kyoto during the Kenmu Restoration and resumed his position as head priest of Tendai, but when the Nanboku-chō civil war began, he returned to secular life, took the name Muneyoshi, and took charge of one of the military affairs of his father the emperor. He first went to Ise, and then to Ii Castle in Tōtōmi (Shizuoka Prefecture). He returned to Yoshino briefly, and in September 1338, he set out for the eastern provinces from Ise Ominato by ship with Kitabatake Chikafusa and others, but a typhoon swept the prince and his party ashore in Totomi, where they entered Ii Castle once again, and thereafter fought in Hokuriku and Kanto, with Shinano (Nagano Prefecture) at the center. As the power of the Southern Court declined, he was pushed back by the Ogasawara clan of Shinano, and retreated to the Ina region of the province, where he died around 1382/Kōwa 2 (1384) and 1384/Ganchū 1 (1385). During that time, he visited the Southern Court's temporary palace several times. He excelled in waka poetry, and in addition to the poetry anthology "Rikashu," he compiled "Shinyo Wakashu," a collection of waka poems by people connected to the Southern Court that was similar to an imperial anthology.

(Harutake Iikura)

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

Japanese:

没年：没年不詳(没年不詳)
生年：応長1(1311)
後醍醐天皇の皇子,母は二条為世の女為子。はじめ妙法院に入室,出家して尊澄法親王と称し同門跡を嗣ぎ,さらに天台座主となった。父天皇が討幕活動をはじめると行動をともにし,元弘の変(1331)後,鎌倉幕府方により讃岐(香川県)へ流された。建武新政で京に戻り天台座主に還任したが,南北朝内乱が始まると還俗して宗良と名乗り,父天皇の軍事面の一方を受け持った。まず伊勢に赴き,その後遠江(静岡県)井伊城に行った。一時吉野に戻り,暦応1/延元3(1338)年9月北畠親房らと共に船で伊勢大湊から東国をめざしたが,台風によって親王の一行のみ遠江に漂着,再び井伊城に入り,以後信濃(長野県)を中心に北陸,関東に転戦した。南朝勢力が下降すると信濃小笠原氏に押され,同国伊那地方に籠もり永徳2/弘和2(1382)から至徳1/元中1(1384)年ごろ同地で死去。その間何回か南朝行宮に赴いている。和歌に秀で歌集『李花集』があるほか,南朝関係者の和歌を集めて,勅撰集に準ぜられた『新葉和歌集』を編集した。

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