Emperor Go-Kōmyō

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Emperor Go-Kōmyō
後光明天皇
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BornTsuguhito (紹仁)
April 20, 1633
Tokugawa shogunate
(now Japan)
DiedOctober 30, 1654(1654-10-30) (aged 21)
Tokugawa shogunate
Burial
Tsuki no wa no misasagi, Kyoto
SpouseNiwata Hideko
IssuePrincess Takako
Posthumous name
Tsuigō:
Emperor Go-Kōmyō (後光明院 or 後光明天皇)
HouseYamato
FatherEmperor Go-Mizunoo
MotherSono Mitsuko

Tsugihito (

order of succession.[2]

Go-Kōmyō's reign spanned the years from 1643 through 1654.[3]

This 17th-century sovereign was named after the 14th-century

Nanboku-chō Emperor Kōmyō
and go- (後), translates as later, and thus, he could be called the "Later Emperor Kōmyō". The Japanese word go has also been translated to mean the second one, and in some older sources, this emperor may be identified as "Kōmyō, the second", or as Kōmyō II".

Genealogy

Before Go-Kōmyō's accession to the

imina) was Tsuguhito (紹仁);[4] and his pre-accession title was Suga-no-miya (素鵞宮).[5]

He was the fourth son of

Tōfuku-mon'in.[6] His predecessor, Empress Meishō
, was his elder paternal half-sister.

Go-Kōmyō's Imperial family lived with him in the Dairi of the Heian Palace. His family included only one daughter and no son:[7]

  • Lady-in-waiting (Naishi-no-Suke) : Niwata Hideko (d. 1685; 庭田秀子), Niwata Shigehide's daughter
    • First daughter: Imperial Princess Takako (1650–1725; 孝子内親王) later Empress Dowager Reiseimon’in (礼成門院)

Events of Go-Kōmyō's life

Tsuguhito-shinnō was granted the title of

Crown Prince; and the following year, he became Emperor when Empress Meishō abdicated. His sister stepped down from the throne and the succession (senso) was received by the new monarch. Shortly thereafter, Emperor Go-Kōmyō is considered to have acceded to the throne (sokui).[8] The events during his lifetime shed light on his reign. The years of Go-Kōmyō's reign correspond with a period in which Tokugawa Iemitsu and Tokugawa Ietsuna were leaders at the pinnacle of the Tokugawa shogunate
.

Go-Kōmyō is among those enshrined in the imperial mausoleum, Tsuki no wa no misasagi, at Sennyū-ji in Higashiyama-ku, Kyoto. Also enshrined are Go-Kōmyō's immediate predecessors, Emperor Go-Mizunoo and Empress Meishō. Go-Kōmyō's immediate Imperial successors are also memorialized in this misasagi, including Go-Sai, Reigen, Higashiyama, Nakamikado, Sakuramachi, Momozono, Go-Sakuramachi and Go-Momozono.[11]

Kugyō

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

Eras of Go-Kōmyō's reign

The years of Go-Kōmyō's reign are more specifically identified by more than one

nengō.[5]

Ancestry

[12]

Notes

Japanese Imperial kamon — a stylized chrysanthemum blossom
  1. ^ Imperial Household Agency (Kunaichō): 後光明天皇 (110)
  2. ^ Ponsonby-Fane, Richard. (1959). The Imperial House of Japan, pp. 115–116.
  3. ^ Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). Annales des empereurs du japon, pp. 412–413.
  4. ^ Ponsonby-Fane, p. 9.
  5. ^ a b c d e f g h Titsingh, p. 412.
  6. ^ a b Ponsonby-Fane, p. 115.
  7. ^ a b Ponsonby-Fane, p. 116.
  8. ^ a b c Titsingh, p. 412; Varley, p. 44; n.b., a distinct act of senso is unrecognized prior to Emperor Tenji; and all sovereigns except Jitō, Yōzei, Go-Toba, and Fushimi have senso and sokui in the same year until the reign of Emperor Go-Murakami.
  9. ^ a b c Meyer, Eva-Maria. (1999). Japans Kaiserhof in der Edo-Zeit, p. 186.
  10. ^ Titsingh, p. 413.
  11. ^ Ponsonby-Fane, Richard. (1959). The Imperial House of Japan, p. 423.
  12. ^ "Genealogy". Reichsarchiv (in Japanese). 30 April 2010. Retrieved 20 January 2018.

References

See also
Regnal titles
Preceded by
Emperor of Japan
:
Go-Kōmyō
1643–1654 		Succeeded by
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