Kitabatake Moroshige

Kitabatake Moroshige (1271–1322) was a court noble of the late Kamakura period, son of the councillor Morochika and father of Chikafusa. A trusted attendant of the Retired Emperor Go-Uda, he rose through provincial and guards posts to Junior Third Rank in 1291 and became Provisional Major Counselor in 1303.

He resigned in 1305, and in 1307 took Buddhist vows under the name Kyōgaku when Go-Uda became a monk. After fifteen years in retreat he died in 1322, aged fifty-three. Seven of his poems enter imperial anthologies.