Emperor Go-Hanazono
後花園天皇
Emperor of Japan
ReignSeptember 7, 1428 – August 21, 1464
CoronationJanuary 21, 1430
PredecessorShōkō
SuccessorGo-Tsuchimikado
ShōgunAshikaga Yoshinori
Ashikaga Yoshikatsu
Ashikaga Yoshimasa
BornHikohito
July 10, 1418
Died18 January 1471(1471-01-18) (aged 52)
Burial
Nochi no Yamakuni no Misasagi (後山國陵) (Kyoto)
Issue
Posthumous name
Tsuigō:
Emperor Go-Hanazono (後花園院 or 後花園天皇)
HouseYamato (Fushimi branch)
FatherPrince Sadafusa
MotherNiwata Sachiko
Signature

Emperor Go-Hanazono (後花園天皇, Go-Hanazono-tennō) (July 10, 1418 – January 18, 1471) was the 102nd emperor of Japan, according to the traditional order of succession.[1] His reign spanned the years from 1428 through 1464.[2]

This 15th-century sovereign was named after the 14th-century Emperor Hanazono and go- (後) translates as "later", and thus, he could be called the "Later Emperor Hanazono", or in some older sources, may be identified as "Hanazono, the second" or as "Hanazono II".

Genealogy

Before his ascension to the Chrysanthemum Throne, his personal name (imina) was simply Hikohito-shinnō (彦仁親王).[3]

He was the eldest son of Imperial Prince Fushimi-no-miya Sadafusa (伏見宮貞成親王) (1372–1456). His mother was Sachiko (幸子) (1390–1448), daughter of Niwata Tsuneari (庭田経有).

His father was the 3rd of the Fushimi-no-miya line and grandson of the Northern Pretender Emperor Sukō, making Go-Hanazono the great-grandson of Sukō and 3rd cousin to his predecessor, Emperor Shōkō. He was also the great-great-great grandson of Emperor Go-Fushimi. This is the second most remote relationship between an emperor and his successor after that between Emperor Go-Komatsu (both the sixth Northern Pretender and the 100th in the main line) and his predecessor in the official line, Emperor Go-Kameyama, who was his fourth cousin twice removed.

Issue

Events of Go-Hanazono's life

Because the previous emperor, Emperor Shōkō had no son, retired Emperor Go-Komatsu needed to secure the Jimyōin inheritance against the Daikakuji line, before Emperor Shōkō died, he adopted a son out of the Fushimi-no-miya house, who became Emperor Go-Hanazono after Shōkō's death.

Until former-Emperor Go-Komatsu died in 1433, Emperor Go-Hanazono held the title of formal head of the Dairi, the real power in the court was wielded by his uncle, who continued a practice known as cloistered rule. After this, Go-Hanazono enjoyed 30 years of direct imperial rule, until his abdication on August 21, 1464, when the conventional pattern of indirect government by cloistered emperors was again resumed.

Kugyō

Kugyō (公卿) 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-Hanazono's reign, this apex of the Daijō-kan included:

Eras of Go-Hanazono's reign

The years of Go-Hanozono's reign are more specifically identified by more than one era name or nengō. Go-Hanazono's reign is almost unique because of its eight successive eras; and only the turbulent years of Emperor Go-Daigo's reign included as many eras.[3]

Ancestry

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Notes

Japanese Imperial kamon — a stylized chrysanthemum blossom
  1. ^ Imperial Household Agency (Kunaichō): 後花園天皇 (102); retrieved 2013-8-28.
  2. ^ Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). Annales des empereurs du japon, pp. 331–351.
  3. ^ a b Titsingh, p. 331.
  4. ^ Titsingh, p. 330.
  5. ^ Titsingh, p. 332.
  6. ^ Titsingh, p. 333.
  7. ^ Titsingh, p. 335
  8. ^ Titsingh, p. 339.
  9. ^ Titsingh, p. 341.
  10. ^ Titsingh, P. 342.
  11. ^ Titsingh, pp. 344–345.
  12. ^ a b c Titsingh, p. 346., p. 346, at Google Books; Satow, Ernest. (1882) "Notes on Loochoo" in Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan, Vols. 1–2, p. 1., p. 1, at Google Books, citing Arai Hakuseki
  13. ^ Titsingh, p. 349.
  14. ^ Titsingh, p. 351.
  15. ^ Titsingh, P. 356.
  16. ^ "Genealogy". Reichsarchiv (in Japanese). 30 April 2010. Retrieved 25 January 2018.

References

See also

Regnal titles Preceded byEmperor Shōkō Emperor of Japan:Go-Hanozano 1428–1464 Succeeded byEmperor Go-Tsuchimikado
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