Emperor Go-Saga

Emperor Go-Saga
後嵯峨天皇
Emperor of Japan
ReignFebruary 21, 1242 – February 16, 1246
EnthronementApril 19, 1242
PredecessorShijō
SuccessorGo-Fukakusa
ShōgunKujō Yoritsune
Kujō Yoritsugu
BornApril 1, 1220
Died17 March 1272(1272-03-17) (aged 51)
Daikaku-ji (大覚寺), Heian-kyō
Burial
Saga no minami no Misasagi (嵯峨南陵) (Kyoto)
Spouse
(m. 1242)
Issue
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Posthumous name
Tsuigō:
Emperor Go-Saga (後嵯峨院 or 後嵯峨天皇)
HouseImperial House of Japan
FatherEmperor Tsuchimikado
MotherMinamoto no Michiko [ja]

Emperor Go-Saga (後嵯峨天皇, Go-Saga-tennō, April 1, 1220 – March 17, 1272) was the 88th emperor of Japan, according to the traditional order of succession. This reign spanned the years 1242 through 1246.[1]

This 13th-century sovereign was named after the 8th-century Emperor Saga and go- (後), translates literally as "later"; and thus, he is sometimes called the "Later Emperor Saga". The Japanese word go has also been translated to mean the "second one;" and in some older sources, this emperor may be identified as "Saga, the second", or as "Saga II".

  1. ^ Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). Annales des empereurs du japon, pp. 245–247; Varley, H. Paul. (1980). Jinnō Shōtōki. pp. 228–231.