Go-Kameyama
Emperor Go-Kameyama ( Japanese 後 亀 山 天皇 , Go-Kameyama-tennō ; * around 1347 - 10 May 1424 ) was the 99th Tennō of Japan (government from 1383 to October 21, 1392).
He was the second son of Emperor Go-Murakamis and the brother of Emperor Chōkeis , his predecessor. His mother Fujiwara Katsuko ?? ( 藤原 勝 子 ) was a member of the Fujiwara clan . His proper name was Hironari ( 熙 成 ). It is not certain whether he had a wife and the existence of a son, Prince Tsuneatsu ( 恒 敦 ), is also not certain.
He was the last anti-emperor of the southern court of Yoshino (now in Nara Prefecture ).
After the abdication of his predecessor Emperor Chōkei in 1383, he became emperor.
After Shogun Ashikaga Yoshimitsu's offer of peace on October 15, Go-Kameyama went to Go-Komatsu in Saga, a suburb of Kyoto , where this counter-emperor of the northern court resided, on October 21, 1392 , and handed him the throne and the three imperial insignia .
The following peace treaty stipulated that Go-Komatsu would choose his successor from the Go-Kameyama line. This treaty was broken in 1412 and Go-Kameyama was removed from the list of Japanese emperors. With that, the Go-Kameyama's line finally lost the throne.
After losing the throne, he became a Buddhist monk and lived in Saga. In 1410 he returned to Yoshino.
Only Emperor Meiji (1911) decided to regard the emperors residing in Yoshino (of the southern court) as the authentic lineage and deleted his own ancestors from the list.
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| predecessor | Office | successor |
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| Chōkei |
Emperor of Japan 1383-1392 |
Go-Komatsu |
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| SURNAME | Go-Kameyama |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | 後 亀 山 天皇 (Japanese); Hironari (proper name); 熙 成 (proper name, Japanese) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | 99. Tennō of Japan |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1347 |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 10, 1424 |