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Prince Hisaaki

Military ruler of Japan from 1289 to 1308

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Prince Hisaaki (久明親王, Hisaaki Shinnō; 19 October 1276 – 16 November 1328; r. 1289–1308), also known as Prince Hisaakira, was the 8th shōgun of the Kamakura shogunate of Japan.

He became shōgun shortly after his thirteenth birthday following the deposition of his predecessor and cousin Prince Koreyasu and was the nominal ruler controlled by Hōjō clan regents. He was the father of his successor, Prince Morikuni.

Prince Hisaaki was the son of Emperor Go-Fukakusa and the younger half-brother of Emperor Fushimi.

Adopted Father: Prince Koreyasu

Wife: daughter of Prince Koreyasu (d. 1306)

Prince Morikuni by daughter of Prince Koreyasu

Prince Hisayoshi (1310–1347) by Reizei no Tsubone

The years in which Hisaaki is shogun are more specifically identified by more than one era name or nengō.

Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric and Käthe Roth. (2005). Japan encyclopedia. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-01753-5; OCLC 58053128

Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). Nihon Ōdai Ichiran; ou, Annales des empereurs du Japon. Paris: Royal Asiatic Society, Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain and Ireland. OCLC 5850691.

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