Kitabatake Morochika

Kitabatake Morochika (1241–1315) was a court noble of the middle and late Kamakura period, the son of Kitabatake Masaie, founder of the Kitabatake house. He was the father of Moroshige and the grandfather of the later court statesman Chikafusa.

In the ninth month of 1289, when the Retired Emperor Kameyama took Buddhist vows as a cloistered emperor, Morochika entered religion alongside him. He died in the tenth month of 1315, at the age of seventy-five.