Kitabatake Chikafusa

Kitabatake Chikafusa (Japanese北 畠 亲 房; * March 8, 1293, † June 1, 1354 in Ano, Yamato Province (now Nishiyoshino, Gojo, Nara prefecture) ) was a Japanese statesman, military leader and historian.

The son of Kitabatake Moroshige belonged to the Murakami clan of Genji and enjoyed the confidence of the early Emperor Go - Daigo, who appointed him as Danaigon and made tutor to his son and successor Go- Murakami. Besides Yoshida Sadafusa and Made no Koji Nobufusa he was one of the three Gosanbō of the emperor.

After the second son of Go- Daigo and Ichijō no tsubones, who died early Prince Yoyoshi, with whose education he had also been entrusted, Kitabatake 1330 was a Buddhist monk and took the name of so-called (later KAKKU ) to.

During the Kemmu restoration to Chikafusa presented with his son, the shogun Chinjufu Kitabatake Akiie to the page Go- Daigo. He was employed as a governor ( kami ) of the province of Mutsu and won a victory over the army Ashikaga Takaujis to Kyoto. After Ashikaga Takauji was shogun become Chikafusa had to flee to Yoshino.

Here he wrote the first adviser to the Südhofes 1339 for the twelve -year-old Prince Noriyoshi his history Jinno Shoto -ki, a history of the age of the gods and the human emperor, as well as the Shokugenshō. He held his position at the Southern Court until his death and wrote in this period nor the writings Gengenshū, Nijūichishaki and Shingon naishōgi.

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  • Encyclopedia Britannica: Kitabatake Chikafusa
  • Yonei Teruyoshi: " Kitabatake Chikafusa ". In: Encyclopedia of Shinto. Kokugaku - in, April 12, 2006 ( English)
  • Samurai Archives - Kitabatake Chikafusa
  • Roland Harweg: Time in Myth and History. Worldwide studies on mythographischer and historiographical chronology from ancient times to the present. Third volume: Chronographie in the East from antiquity to the present, LIT, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-8258-1576-9, pp. 280 ff ( limited preview on Google Book Search ).
  • Haruo Shirane (ed. ): Traditional Japanese Literature: . An Anthology, Beginnings to 1600 Columbia University Press, 2007, ISBN 978-0-231-13697-6, pp. 851 ff ( limited preview on Google Book Search ).
  • Governor (Japan)
  • Author
  • Historian ( Early Modern Times )
  • Literature (Japanese)
  • Literature (14th century)
  • Minamoto
  • Man
  • Born in 1293
  • Died in 1354
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