Emperor Go-Toba

Emperor Go-Toba
後鳥羽天皇
Portrait by Fujiwara no Nobuzane, 1221
Emperor of Japan
ReignSeptember 8, 1183 – February 18, 1198
EnthronementSeptember 4, 1184
PredecessorAntoku
SuccessorTsuchimikado
ShōgunMinamoto no Yoritomo
BornAugust 6, 1180
Gojō-machi no Tei (五条町の亭), Heian-kyō
DiedMarch 28, 1239(1239-03-28) (aged 58)
Karita Gosho (苅田御所), Oki Islands, Kamakura shogunate
Burial
Ōhara no Misasagi (大原陵) (Kyōto)
Spouse
(m. 1190)
Issue
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Posthumous name
Tsuigō:
Emperor Go-Toba (後鳥羽院 or 後鳥羽天皇)
HouseImperial House of Japan
FatherEmperor Takakura
MotherFujiwara no Shokushi (Shichijō-in) [ja]

Emperor Go-Toba (後鳥羽天皇, Go-Toba-tennō, August 6, 1180 – March 28, 1239) was the 82nd emperor of Japan, according to the traditional order of succession. His reign spanned the years from 1183 through 1198.[1]

This 12th-century sovereign was named after Emperor Toba, and go- (後), translates literally as "later"; and thus, he is sometimes called the "Later Emperor Toba". The Japanese word go has also been translated to mean the "second one"; and in some older sources, this emperor may be identified as "Toba the Second" or as "Toba II".

  1. ^ Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). Annales des empereurs du Japon, pp. 207–221; Brown, Delmer et al. (1979). Gukanshō, pp. 334–339; Varley, H. Paul. (1980). Jinnō Shōtōki. pp. 215–220.