Kitabatake Chikafusa

Kitabatake Chikafusa (born 1293, Japan—died May 10, 1354, Anō, Yamato Province, Japan) was a Japanese warrior, statesman, and author of the influential politico-historical treatise Jinnō shōtōki (“Record of the Legitimate Succession of the Divine Emperors”), which set forth the mystic and nationalist doctrine that Japan had a unique superiority among nations because of its unbroken succession of divine rulers. Kitabatake served as adviser to the emperor Go-Daigo when that monarch returned from exile in 1333...