Background
He was the son of Emperor Go-Daigo and his consort Minamoto no Chikako. Moriyoshi was named by his father as the head abbot of the Enryakuji temple on Mount Hiei.
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He was the son of Emperor Go-Daigo and his consort Minamoto no Chikako. Moriyoshi was named by his father as the head abbot of the Enryakuji temple on Mount Hiei.
Go-Daigo attempted to seize power in 1331 during Genkō War. Prince Moriyoshi joined forces with Kusunoki Masashige. When the city finally fell, Regent Hōjō Takatoki fled to Tōshō temple, where he and his entire family committed suicide.
This marked the end of Hōjō power.
Restored to the throne, Daigo started the Kemmu Restoration. After refusing to appoint Ashikaga Takauji to the post of seii taishōgun, Daigo gave it to Prince Morinaga instead.
Takauji seized Moriyoshi in Yoshino "on imperial warrant", after rumors attributed to Go-Daigo"s consort Renshi, that he was preparing an attack. Moriyoshi was then sent to Takauji"s brother Tadayoshi in Kamakura.
Tadayoshi had Moriyoshi beheaded in late August
1335. lieutenant was dedicated to him by Emperor Meiji in 1869. A Guide to Kamakura, Kamakura-gū, retrieved on June 21, 2008
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Kamakura Jiten (in Japanese).
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John Whitney Hall, Peter Duus (1990). Yamamura Kozo, educated The Cambridge History of Japan (Hardcover).
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Moriyoshi tenaciously defended Mount Yoshino. Masashige"s heroics defending Chihaya, together with Moriyoshi"s efforts to rally troops, brought a large number of warriors to the loyalist cause.