Emperor Go-Daigo was the 96th emperor of Japan, according to the traditional order of succession.
11 Facts About Emperor Go-Daigo
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Emperor Go-Daigo successfully overthrew the Kamakura shogunate in 1333 and established the short-lived Kenmu Restoration to bring the Imperial House back into power.
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Emperor Go-Daigo was the second son of the Daikakuji-to emperor, Emperor Go-Uda.
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Emperor Go-Daigo's ideal was the Engi era during the reign of Emperor Daigo, a period of direct imperial rule.
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An emperor's posthumous name was normally chosen after his death, but Emperor Go-Daigo chose his personally during his lifetime, to share it with Emperor Daigo.
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Emperor Go-Daigo quickly hid the Sacred Treasures in a secluded castle in Kasagiyama and raised an army, but the castle fell to the shogunate's army the following year, and they enthroned Emperor Kogon, exiling Daigo to Oki Province, the same place to which Emperor Go-Toba had been exiled after the Jokyu War of 1221.
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In 1333, Emperor Go-Daigo escaped from Oki with the help of Nawa Nagatoshi and his family, raising an army at Senjo Mountain in Hoki Province.
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Emperor Go-Daigo wanted to imitate the Chinese in all their ways and become the most powerful ruler in the East.
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Emperor Go-Daigo ordered Imperial Prince Kaneyoshi to Kyushu and Nitta Yoshisada and Imperial Prince Tsuneyoshi to Hokuriku, and so forth, dispatching his sons all over, so that they could oppose the Northern Court.
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The years of Emperor Go-Daigo's reign are more specifically identified by more than one era name or nengo.
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Emperor Go-Daigo appears in the alternate history novel Romanitas by Sophia McDougall.