Go-Sanjō

Go-Sanjō ( Japanese 後 三条 天皇 , Go-Sanjō-tennō ; * September 3, 1034 in Kyōto ; † June 15, 1073 ibid) was the 71st Tennō of Japan (April 19, 1068- December 8, 1072).

His proper name was Takahito ( 尊 仁 ). He was a son of Go-Suzaku -tennō by his wife named Seishi, who was the daughter of Sanjō -tennō. He was, as it were, a grandson of the two Tennō Ichijō and Sanjō.

The mother, like the mothers of most of the Tennō, came from the Fujiwara family . The last Tennō before Go-Sanjō, whose mother was not Fujiwara, was the Uda -tennō 170 years earlier. The Fujiwara family opposed Go-Sanjō's coronation. Since Go-Sanjō's brother and predecessor Go-Reizei had no son, he was the only legitimate successor.

Go-Sanjō tried to reduce the power of the Fujiwara over the imperial house by abdicating in 1072 and installing his son Shirakawa as Tennō. He himself retired to a monastery from which he directed his son and thus continued to hold true political power. He founded the "rule of the abdicated emperors" ( insei ), which was outside the influence of the Fujiwara family, but in the long term led to greater independence of the provinces and thus to the weakening of the imperial family.

literature

• G. Cameron Hurst: The Reign of Go-Sanjo and the Revival of Imperial Power. In: Monumenta Nipponica . Vol. 27, No. 1. (Spring, 1972), pp. 65-83

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.bridica.com/EBchecked/topic/522496/Go-Sanjo

predecessor	Office	successor
Go-Reizei	Tennō 1068-1073	Shirakawa