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Emperor Go-Murakami
後村上天皇ごむらかみてんのう
Emperor of Japan
ReignSeptember 18, 1339 – March 29, 1368
EnthronementNovember 6, 1339
PredecessorGo-Daigo
SuccessorChōkei
ShōgunAshikaga Takauji
Ashikaga Yoshiakira
BornNoriyoshi (義良のりなが)
1328
DiedMarch 29, 1368(1368-03-29) (aged 39–40)
Burial
Hinoo no Misasagi (檜尾ひのきお陵りょう) (Osaka)
Issue
more...		Emperor Chōkei
Emperor Go-Kameyama
Posthumous name
Tsuigō:
Emperor Go-Murakami (後うしろ村むら上院じょういん or 後村上天皇ごむらかみてんのう)
HouseImperial House of Japan
FatherEmperor Go-Daigo
MotherFujiwara no Renshi
Signature

Emperor Go-Murakami (後村上天皇ごむらかみてんのう, Go-Murakami-tennō) (1328 – March 29, 1368) was the 97th emperor of Japan, according to the traditional order of succession, and a member of the Southern Court during the Nanboku-chō period of rival courts. He reigned from September 18, 1339, until March 29, 1368 (Shōhei 23, 11th day of the 3rd month).[1] His personal name was Noriyoshi (義良のりなが). He reigned from Sumiyoshi, Ōsaka, Yoshino, Nara, and other temporary locations.

This 14th-century sovereign was named after the 10th-century Emperor Murakami and go- (後ご), translates as "later"; and thus, he is sometimes called the "Later Emperor Murakami". The Japanese word go has also been translated to mean the "second one"; and in some older sources, this emperor may be identified as "Murakami, the second", or as "Murakami II".

Events of Go-Murakami's life

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"Prince Norinaga" was Go-Daigo's son from his "favorite consort of his later years". This was Lady Renshi.[2]: 67 

He lived during the turbulent years of conflict between rival claimants to the Chrysanthemum Throne. The contested succession pitted what were known as the Northern and Southern Courts against each other. These years are also known as the Nanboku-chō period. When Emperor Go-Daigo began his Kenmu Restoration, the still very young prince, along with Kitabatake Akiie, in 1333 went to Tagajō in what is now Miyagi Prefecture, at the time Mutsu Province, to return the eastern samurai to their allegiance and destroy the remnants of the Hōjō clan. However, in 1336, because Ashikaga Takauji had raised a rebellion, the Emperor returned to Sakamoto with a strong force to confront him.[2]

He was accompanied by Kitabatake Akiie, in order to confront Takauji. When Takauji defeated them in Kyōto in 1336, they again returned to Mutsu Province. In 1337, because Tagajō was attacked, they returned yet again to the west, returning to Yoshino while constantly fighting battles.[2]: 43, 61 

In 1338, he headed to Tagajō, but returned to Yoshino because of a storm. In Oct. 1338, he was named Crown Prince. On 19 Sept. 1339, he became emperor upon the death of Emperor Go-Daigo. Kitabatake Chikafusa became his advisor.[2]: 66–67 

In 1348, Kō no Moronao attacked Yoshino, and the Emperor left for modern-day Nishiyoshino Village in Yoshino District, Nara Prefecture, which was then Yamato Province. In 1352, he entered Otokoyama in Yamashiro Province. As a result of the Battle of Shichijō Ōmiya, Kusunoki Masanori recovered Kyōto from Ashikaga Yoshiakira.

At this time, April 1352, the Retired Northern Emperors Kōgon, Kōmyō, and Sukō were taken to Anau, the location of the Southern Court. However, within twenty days, Ashikaga Yoshiakira had recaptured Kyōto.[2]: 88 

The Emperor and his retinue were confined to Otokoyama, but escaped to Kawachi Province during an attack by Yoshiakira, and a few months later returned to Yoshino.

In 1361, Hosokawa Kiyōji and Kusunoki Masanori, who had returned to the Southern Court's allegiance, attacked Kyōto, and temporarily recovered it. But, Yoshiakira quickly responded, and they evacuated Kyōto in less than twenty days.[2]: 107–108 

They continued trying to recover Kyōto, but the Southern Court's power was already weakening, and by the Emperor's death in 1368, Ashikaga Yoshimitsu was in power and the throne had been moved to Sumiyoshi.

Memorial Shinto shrine and mausoleum honoring Emperor Go-Murakami

Go-Murakami's tomb is known as Hinoo no misasagi (檜尾ひのきお陵りょう); it is located in the precincts of Kanshin-ji temple (観心寺かんしんじ) in Kawachinagano, Osaka.[3]

Kugyō

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Kugyō (公卿くぎょう) is a collective term for the very few most powerful men attached to the court of the Emperor of Japan in pre-Meiji eras. Even during those years in which the court's actual influence outside the palace walls was minimal, the hierarchic organization persisted.

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-Murakami's reign, this apex of the Daijō-kan included:

Eras of Go-Murakami's reign

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The years of Go-Murakami's reign are more specifically identified by more than one era name or nengō.

Nanboku-chō southern court
  • Eras as reckoned by legitimate Court (as determined by Meiji rescript)
Nanboku-chō northern court
  • Eras as reckoned by pretender Court (as determined by Meiji rescript)

Genealogy

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He was the seventh son of Emperor Go-Daigo

  • Consort: Minamoto (Kitabatake) Akiko (源みなもと (北畠きたばたけ) 顕子あきこ), Kitabatake Chikafusa's daughter
    • First daughter: Imperial Princess Noriko (憲子のりこ内親王ないしんのう; 1345–1391) later Shin-Sen'mon-in (新しん宣せん陽ひ門もん院いん)
  • Court Lady: Fujiwara no Shōshi (藤原ふじわら勝子かつこ) later Kaki Mon'in, Ano Sanetama's daughter
    • First son: Imperial Prince Yutanari (寛成かんせい親王しんのう) later Emperor Chōkei
    • Second son: Imperial Prince Hironari (熙成親王しんのう) later Emperor Go-Kameyama
    • Fourth son: Imperial Prince Yasunari (泰成やすなり親王しんのう, 1360–1423)
  • Consort: Okurakyo-no-Tsubone (大蔵卿局おおくらきょうのつぼね)
    • Third son: Imperial Prince Korenari (惟おもんみ成なり親王しんのう, d. 1423)
    • Fifth son: Imperial Prince Moronari (師し成なり親王しんのう, 1361–1431)
  • Consort: Reizen-no-Tsubone (冷泉れいせん局きょく)
    • Seventh son: Imperial Prince Yoshinari (良成よしなり親王しんのう, d. 1395)
  • unknown
    • Sixth son: Imperial Prince Kanenari (説せつ成なり親王しんのう)
    • daughter: Imperial Princess Sadako (貞子さだこ内親王ないしんのう)

See also

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References

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Japanese Imperial kamon — a stylized chrysanthemum blossom
  1. ^ Ponsonby-Fane, Richard. (1959). The Imperial House of Japan, p. 158.
  2. ^ a b c d e f Sansom, George (1961). A History of Japan, 1334–1615. Stanford University Press. p. 32,43. ISBN 0804705259.
  3. ^ Ponsonby-Fane, p. 422.

References

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Regnal titles
Preceded by Emperor of Japan:
Go-Murakami
1339–1368 		Succeeded by
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