Go-Komatsu

The emperor Go-Komatsu (ja 後小松天皇, Go-Komatsu Tennō , (1377 - February 1st 1433) was the sixth of the applicants of the Cour of North of the Japan, of the May 24th 1382 with the October 21st 1392, then the 100e emperor of the Japan of this date to the October 5th 1412.

Its personal name was Motohito (ja 幹仁). Its posthumous name was given to him in memory of that of the emperor Kōkō, who was also called Komatsu (one can translate the prefix Go-, 後, by “posterior”, which thus gives “posterior Komatsu Emperor”.) It received this name because both brought back the throne to their line: in the case of Go-Komatsu, by overcoming its rivals of the Court of the South, and in the case of the Kōkō emperor, while succeeding the emperor Yōzei, grandson of his older brother.

Genealogy

Go-Komatsu was the oldest son of its predecessor Go ' yū. his/her mother was Tsūyōmonin No Itsuko (ja 通陽門院厳子), Fille of the guard of the imperial seal Kimitada Sanjō (ja 三条公忠, Sanjō Kimitada ). It had several children, among whom his heir the emperor Shōkō, and the monk Zen Ikkyū Sōjun (illegitimate, of a girl of vassal of the Court of the South). It also adopted the prince Hikohito (grandson of the applicant of North Sukō, and future emperor Go-Hanazono).

Biography

Go-Komatsu is high in the house of Sukenori Hino (ja 日野西資教, Hino Sukenori ). He becomes emperor of North when his/her father Go ' yū abdicates. This last becomes then emperor withdrawn, with the assistance of the Shogun Yoshimitsu Ashikaga. In 1392, following the reunification of the two courses of North and the South, the emperor of the South Go-Kameyama returns the three treasures crowned, putting an end to the court South, and making to Go-Komatsu the legitimate emperor of Japan, the October 21st 1392, provided that the throne alternates between the two lines every ten years.

However, the agreement is not respected, Go-Komatsu abdicating only in 1412, and it is his/her own son who goes up then on the throne as an emperor Shōkō, and all the later emperors go down from the line of North. Until 1911, the emperors of the court of North were thus regarded as the legitimate emperors, and the Court of the South like illegitimate. However, a decision of the government changed this irrefutable fact, and it is now the Court of the South which is regarded as legitimate, having been in possession of the imperial Treasury of Japan. So Go-Komatsu is not regarded as legitimate for the first ten years of its reign.

Eras of its reign

(Court of North)

Eitoku
Shitoku
Kakei
Kōō

(Court of the South)

Kōwa
Genchū

reunified Court

Meitoku
Ōei

Rivals of the Court of the South

Sources

Titsingh, Isaac, ED. (1834). Rin-siyo/Hayashi Gahō, 1652. Japanese O daï itsi ran; or, Annals of the emperors of Japan, tr. by Mr. Isaac Titsingh with the assistance of several interpreters attached to the Dutch counter of Nangasaki; work Re., supplemented and horn. on the original Japanese-Chinese, accompanied by notes and preceded by a mythological Outline of history by Japan, by Mr. J. Klaproth. Paris: Eastern Translation Fund off Great Britain and Ireland.

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