Southern Court
Legitimate emperors during the Nanboku-chō period of Japan (1336–1392) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Southern Court (南朝, Nanchō) were a set of four emperors (Emperor Go-Daigo and his line) whose claims to sovereignty during the Nanboku-chō period spanning from 1336 through 1392 were usurped by the Northern Court. This period ended with the Southern Court definitively losing the war, and they were forced to completely submit sovereignty to the Northern Court. This had the result that, while later Japanese sovereigns were descended from the Northern Court, posterity assigns sole legitimacy during this period to the Southern Court.
Southern Court 南朝 Nanchō | |||||||||||||
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1338–1392 | |||||||||||||
Capital | Yoshino, Yoshino Province | ||||||||||||
Common languages | Late Middle Japanese | ||||||||||||
Religion | Shinbutsu shūgō | ||||||||||||
Government | Absolute monarchy | ||||||||||||
Emperor | |||||||||||||
• 1336–1339 | Go-Daigo | ||||||||||||
• 1339–1368 | Go-Murakami | ||||||||||||
• 1368–1383 | Chōkei | ||||||||||||
• 1383–1392 | Go-Kameyama | ||||||||||||
History | |||||||||||||
• Fall of Kyoto | February 23 1338 | ||||||||||||
• Re-unification of Imperial courts | August 11 1392 | ||||||||||||
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The Southern descendants are also known as the "junior line" and the Daikakuji line (大覚寺統, Daikakuji-tō), Daikaku-ji being the cloistered home of Go-Uda, a Southern ruler.[1] Because it was based in Yoshino, Nara, it is also called the Yoshino court (吉野朝廷, Yoshino chōtei).[2]