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(1308 – August 12, 1335) was a Japanese prince and monk. He was the son of Emperor Go-Daigo and his consort Minamoto no Chikako. At the age of 18, Moriyoshi was named by his father as the head abbot of the Enryakuji temple on Mount Hiei. When Daigo's attempt to seize power in 1331 failed (the Genkō War), Prince Moriyoshi fled Mount Hiei to the province of Kii, meeting up with Kusunoki Masashige. They tenaciously defended the small fortress of Akasaka before finally being forced to withdraw. He then moved to 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. By 1333, the rival warlords Ashikaga Takauji and Nitta Yoshisada had both joined the cause; Yoshisada would lay siege to Kamakura in the same year. 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 made the double mistake of giving the title to his sons Moriyoshi and Norinaga, two civilians, thus alienating Takauji and the warrior class, who felt he, as a military man and a descendant of the Minamoto, should have been shogun instead. Takauji made false charges that Moriyoshi was planning treason, forcing the emperor to hand over the prince. Moriyoshi was then sent to Takauji's brother Tadayoshi in Kamakura, and imprisoned in a nearby cave near for eight months. A rebellion headed by Hōjō Tokiyuki forced Tadayoshi to retreat from Kamakura. Being unable to take the prince along, Tadayoshi had him beheaded on July 23, 1335. A Shinto shrine, Kamakura-gū, was built around the cave where Prince Moriyoshi was imprisoned. It was dedicated to him by Emperor Meiji in 1869. ==See also== * Kamakura-gū * Myōhō–ji 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Prince Moriyoshi」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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