Emperor Go-Horikawa

Posthumous name
	Tsuigō:; Emperor Go-Horikawa (後堀河院 or 後堀河天皇)

Emperor Go-Horikawa
後堀河天皇
Emperor Go-Horikawa; 後堀河天皇
Emperor of Japan
Reign	July 29, 1221 – November 17, 1232
Enthronement	January 14, 1222
Predecessor	Chūkyō
Successor	Shijō
Shōgun	Kujō Yoritsune
Born	March 22, 1212
Died	August 31, 1234 (aged 22)
Burial	Kannon-ji no Misasagi (觀音寺陵) (Kyoto)
Spouse	; Fujiwara no Ariko (m. 1223) ; Fujiwara no Chōshi (m. 1226) ; Fujiwara no Shunshi (m. 1230; died 1233)
Issue; more...	Emperor Shijō
Posthumous name
Posthumous name
	Tsuigō:; Emperor Go-Horikawa (後堀河院 or 後堀河天皇)
House	Imperial House of Japan
Father	Prince Morisada

Emperor Go-Horikawa (後堀河天皇, Go-Horikawa-tennō) (March 22, 1212 – August 31, 1234) was the 86th emperor of Japan, according to the traditional order of succession. His reign spanned the years from 1221 through 1232.^[1]

This 13th-century sovereign was named after the 10th-century Emperor Horikawa and go- (後), translates literally as "later"; and thus, he is sometimes called the "Later Emperor Horikawa". The Japanese word go has also been translated to mean the "second one;" and in some older sources, this emperor may be identified as "Horikawa, the second," or as "Horikawa II."

^ Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). Annales des empereurs du Japon, pp. 238–241; Brown, Delmer et al. (1979). Gukanshō, pp. 344–345; Varley, H. Paul. (1980). Jinnō Shōtōki. pp. 226–227.

[1] Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). Annales des empereurs du Japon, pp. 238–241; Brown, Delmer et al. (1979). Gukanshō, pp. 344–345; Varley, H. Paul. (1980). Jinnō Shōtōki. pp. 226–227.

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