Background
He was the first son of the Emperor Go-Saga and replaced the deposed Kujō Yoritsugu as shogun at the age of ten.
宗尊親王
He was the first son of the Emperor Go-Saga and replaced the deposed Kujō Yoritsugu as shogun at the age of ten.
He was a puppet ruler controlled by the Hōjō clan regents. 1252 (Kenchō 4, 2nd month): Hōjō Tokiyori and Hōjō Shigetoki sent a representative to Kyoto to accompany Munetaka to Kamakura where he would be installed as shogun. His priestly name was Gyōshō.
He was a writer of Waka poetry.
The years in which Munetaka was shogun are more specifically identified by more than one era name or nengō. Kenchō (1249–1257)
Kōgeneral (1256–1257)
Shōka (1257–1259)
Shōgeneral (1259–1260)
Bun"ō (1260–1261)
Kōchō (1261–1264)
Bun"ei (1264–1275).
Kamakura shogunate.