Ogura Shrine

Japanese: 小倉宮 - おぐらのみや

Year of death: Kakitsu 3 (1443)
Year of birth: Year of birth unknown. A member of the imperial family in the early Muromachi period. Son of Prince Tsuneatsu, son of Emperor Gokameyama. He became a monk and took the name Seisho, but his secular name is unknown. He is also known as Higuchinomiya. His father, Prince Tsuneatsu, is also known as Oguranomiya, but the name Seisho refers to him as an individual. The name Oguranomiya comes from the fact that he lived in Saga-Kokura, a suburb of Kyoto. When Emperor Gohanazono ascended to the throne in 1428, Seisho, whose hopes of succeeding to the throne were dashed, fled Saga and sought refuge with Kitabatake Mitsumasa in Ise Province (Mie Prefecture). The Kitabatake clan raised an army and were ordered by Shogun Ashikaga Yoshinori to attack Toki Mochiyori, but Seisho was appeased and returned to Kyoto a few years later. In 1434, he became a monk and took the name Seisho. Around this time, Oguranomiya's son, Noritaka, was adopted by Shogun Yoshinori and entered Kanshuji Temple as a monk, but in 1443 (Kakitsu 3), remnants of the Southern Court attacked the Tsuchimikado Imperial Palace and attempted to seize the sacred treasures in the Kinketsu Incident, in which Noritaka was arrested as a sympathizer and was exiled to Oki Island during the Bun'an era (1444-1449), where he died. His father, Oguranomiya, also died in the same year as the Kinketsu Incident, making for a turbulent life for two generations of father and son as the descendants of the Southern Court. <References> "A History of the Northern and Southern Courts, Supplemented" (Collected Works of Murata Masashi, Volume 1)

(Masaaki Komori)

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

Japanese:

没年：嘉吉3(1443)
生年：生年不詳
室町前期の皇族。後亀山天皇の皇子恒敦親王の子。出家して聖承と名乗ったが俗名は不明。また樋口宮ともいう。父恒敦親王も小倉宮と称されるが,個人としてはこの聖承を指す。小倉宮の由来は京都郊外の嵯峨小倉の地に居住していたためである。正長1(1428)年の後花園天皇の践祚に当たり,皇位継承の望みがたたれた聖承は嵯峨の地を出奔し伊勢国(三重県)の北畠満雅を頼った。挙兵した北畠氏は将軍足利義教の命によって土岐持頼の討伐にあったが,聖承は懐柔によって数年後に帰京した。永享6(1434)年,出家し聖承と名乗る。この小倉宮の子教尊は,このころ将軍義教の猶子となり勧修寺に入室して出家していたが,嘉吉3(1443)年南朝の残党が土御門内裏を襲撃し神器を奪い取ろうとした禁闕の変では,教尊も同調者として捕らえられ,文安年中(1444～49)には隠岐島に配流され,その地で没した。父小倉宮も,この禁闕の変の年に没するなど,南朝の皇胤として父子2代にわたって波瀾に満ちた生涯であった。<参考文献>『増補南北朝史論』(村田正志著作集1巻)

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