Emperor Go-Komatsu
Emperor Go-Komatsu 後小松天皇 | |||||
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Ikkyū Sōjun Emperor Shōkō | |||||
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House | Yamato | ||||
Father | Emperor Go-En'yū | ||||
Mother | Sanjō Itsuko | ||||
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Emperor Go-Komatsu (後小松天皇, Go-Komatsu-tennō, 1 August 1377 – 1 December 1433) was the 100th emperor of Japan, according to the traditional order of succession,[1] and the sixth and final Emperor of the Northern Court.
He is officially considered to have been the Northern pretender from 24 May 1382 to 21 October 1392, when upon
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Genealogy
Before his accession to the Chrysanthemum Throne, his personal name (his imina) was Motohito-shinnō (幹仁親王).[4]
Go-Komatsu was the first son of Emperor Go-En'yū. His mother was Tsūyōmonin no Itsuko (通陽門院厳子), daughter of the Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal Sanjō Kimitada (三条公忠).
- Consort: Hinonishi Motoko (日野西資子, 1384–1440) later Kohan’mon-in (光範門院), Hinonishi Sukekuni's daughter
- First son: Imperial Prince Mihito (1401–1428実仁親王) later Emperor Shōkō
- Second son: Prince Ogawa (1404–1425; 小川宮), Emperor Shōkō's crown prince
- First daughter: Princess Riei (理永女王; 1406–1447)
- Lady-in-waiting: Kanrouji Tsuneko (甘露寺経子), Kanrouji Kanenaga's daughter
- Naishi: Hinonishi Sukekuni's daughter
- Naishi: Shirakawa Suketada's daughter
- Naishi: Kohyōe-no-Tsubone (小兵衛局)
- daughter: (b. 1412)
- Naishi: Unknown (daughter of a retainer from the Southern Court)
- Ikkyū Sōjun
He was named after Emperor Kōkō, who had the alternate name Komatsu, because they both returned the throne to their families, in the case of Emperor Go-Komatsu, by defeating his Southern Court rivals, and in the case of Emperor Kōkō, by succeeding his elder brother's grandson, Emperor Yōzei.
Events of Go-Komatsu's life
In his own lifetime, Go-Komatsu and those around him believed that he occupied the Chrysanthemum Throne from 24 May 1382 until 1412.
He was raised in the turbulent Nanboku-chō period of rival northern and southern courts in the mansion of Hino Sukenori (日野西資教). He succeeded as
In 1392, an envoy from the
He is enshrined with other emperors at the imperial tomb called Fukakusa no kita no misasagi (深草北陵) in Fushimi-ku, Kyoto.[7]
Kugyō
Kugyō (公卿) is a collective term for the very few most powerful men attached to the court of the
In general, this elite group included only three to four men at a time. These were hereditary courtiers whose experience and background would have brought them to the pinnacle of a life's career. During Go-Komatsu's reign, this apex of the Daijō-kan included:
- Sadaijin
- Udaijin
- Nadaijin
- Dainagon
Eras of Go-Komatsu's reign
The years of Go-Komatsu's Nanboku-chō and post-Nanboku-chō reign are more specifically identified by more than one
- Nanboku-chō northern court
- Eras as reckoned by legitimate Court (as determined by Meiji rescript)
- Nanboku-chō southern court
- Eras as reckoned by pretender Court (as determined by Meiji rescript)
- Post-Nanboku-chō court
- Eras merged as Meitoku 3 replaced Genchū 9 as Go-Kameyama abdicated.
Southern Court rivals
- Chōkei
- Go-Kameyama
See also
- List of Emperors of Japan
- Imperial cult
Notes
- ^ Imperial Household Agency (Kunaichō): 後小松天皇 (100); retrieved 2013-8-28.
- ^ Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). Annales des empereurs du japon, pp. 317–327.
- ^ Brown, Delmer M. (1979). Gukanshō, p. 289; excerpt, "Koko's personal name was Tokiayasu, and he was called the 'Emperor of Komatsu'. He received the throne on the 4th day of the 1st month of 884 ...."
- ^ a b Titsingh, p. 317.
- ^ William, Griffis (1913). The Mikado's Empire: book 1. History of Japan from 660 B.C. to 1872 A.D.
- ISBN 0804705259.
- ^ Ponsonby-Fane, Richard. (1959). The Imperial House of Japan, p. 423.
References
- Ponsonby-Fane, Richard. (1959). The Imperial House of Japan. Kyoto: Ponsonby Memorial Society. OCLC 194887
- Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain and Ireland.