Go-Sanjō

The emperor Go-Sanjō (後冷泉天皇, Go-Sanjō Tennō , September 3rd 1034 - June 15th 1073) was the sixty-and-eleventh emperor Japan, according to the traditional order of the succession, and reigned of 1068 to the January 18th 1073. Its personal name was prince Takahito (尊仁). Its posthumous Nom was given to him in memory of that of the emperor Sanjō (one can translate the prefix Go- , 後, by “posterior”, which thus gives “posterior Sanjō Emperor”.)

Genealogy

Go-Sanjō was the second wire of the emperor Go-Suzaku. His/her mother was the empress ( Kōgō ) Sadako (禎子内親王), the third girl of the emperor Sanjō, which makes of him the first emperor of Japan in 170 years whose mother is not a woman of the clan Fujiwara, the last being the emperor Uda. It had several children, among whom the future emperor Shirakawa.

Empress and consorts

Fujiwara No Moshi (Shigeko), girl of Fujiwara No Kinnari and adopted girl of Fujiwara No Yoshinobu; entry with the palate towards 1049; died in 1062 and raised with the row of posthumous empress dowager; it had 6 children:

first girl: Princess Soshi (Fusako), (1050 - 1131)
second girl: Princess (February-July 1052)
first wire: Prince Sadahito, born in 1053 (emperor Shirakawa.)
third girl: Princess Shunshi (Toshiko), born in 1056; vestal of Ise, died in 1132
fourth girl: Princess Kashi (Yoshiko) (1057 - 1130)
fifth girl: princess Tokushi (Atsuko) (born in 1060; empress of her nephew the emperor Horikawa, died in 1114)

imperial Princess Keishi (Kaoruko), born in 1029, girl of the emperor Go-Ichijo¯ and the empress Fujiwara No Ishi; vestal of Kamo 1032 - 1036; entry with the palate in 1051; imperial wife; titrated empress ( Chu¯gu¯ ) in 1068; died in 1093; it had 2 children:

Princess, died in low age
second wire: Prince born and died in 1062

Fujiwara No Shoshi (Akiko), girl of Fujiwara No Yorimune and adopted girl of Fujiwara No Yoshinobu; entry with the palate in 1066; nun in 1073

Minamoto No Kishi (Motoko) born in 1047, girl of Minamoto No Motohira (wire of Koichijo¯ No In) and of a girl of Fujiwara No Yoshiyori; entry with the palate in 1068; imperial wife in 1072; died in 1134; it had 2 children:

third wire: Prince Sanehito born in 1070; crown prince in 1071; died in 1085
fourth wire: Prince Sukehito (1073 - 1119)

Biography

As it was not Fujiwara origin, the Kampaku Fujiwara No Yorimichi neglects it, but according to the will of the emperor Go-Suzaku, it is named crown prince ( kōtai-tei ) when his/her elder half-brother Chikahito goes up on the throne under the name of Go-Reizei. This last not leaving with its death any alive child, Takahito succeeds to him in 1068.

The young brother of Yorimichi, Fujiwara No Norimichi becomes kampaku then, but Go-Sanjō is given to reign personally. In 1069, it publishes the “Decree of regulation of the Shōen of the era Enkyū”, and establishes a governmental office charged to certify the recording of the shōen . In 1070, it controls silk and in 1072, the system of central authority of the Ritsuryō having become dead letter, it plans to strengthen finances of the imperial house, which had weakened.

In 1072, patient, it abdicates in favor of his/her son imperial prince Sadahito, who becomes then the emperor Shirakawa. The disease carries it a few months after its abdication.

Go-Sanjo died in 1073; and it is buried among the “seven imperial tombs” with the temple of Ryoan-ji to Kyoto. The monticule which commemorates the Go-Sanjo emperor is today called “Shu-zan”. The place of the burial of Go-Sanjo would have been completely humble during the time after the emperor died. These tombs reached their state of today after the restoration of the imperial sepulchres which were ordered by the emperor Meiji.

Eras of its reign

Era Jiryaku (1065-1069)
Era Enkyū (1069-1074)

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