Hosokawa Morouji

Hosokawa Morouji (1305–1348), first head of the Hosokawa Awaji line, was a son of Hosokawa Kimiyori of Mikawa. In the Genko War he followed Ashikaga Takauji against the Kamakura shogunate, then served under Tadayoshi in Kamakura and fought the Nakasendai War of 1335.

As shugo of Awaji, he crushed the Southern Court Uhara clan at Tachikawase. In 1347 he reduced Shodo Island, forcing its Southern Court defenders to submit. He died in June 1348, and his descendants held Awaji as their shugo province.