Prince Munenaga (Munenaga Shinno) was a son of Emperor Go-Daigo who lived during Japan's turbulent Nanboku-cho period in the fourteenth century. He served as a Buddhist priest and later as a military and political leader for the Southern Court, and he is remembered as a scholar and poet whose learning and literary compositions have led to his association with academic pursuits and study. Later tradition and local veneration have connected his memory to the domain of scholarship, though specific claims of benefit attributed to him should be regarded as devotional rather than historically documented.