Emperor Go-Fukakusa

Emperor Go-Fukakusa
後深草天皇
Emperor of Japan
Reign16 February 1246 – 9 January 1260
Enthronement29 March 1246
PredecessorGo-Saga
SuccessorKameyama
ShōgunKujō Yoritsugu
Prince Munetaka
Born28 June 1243
Imadegawa-dono (今出川殿), Heian kyō (Japan)
Died17 August 1304(1304-08-17) (aged 61)
Nijo-Tominokoji-dono
(二条富小路殿), Heian kyō
Burial
Fukakusa no kita no Misasagi (深草北陵) (Kyoto)
SpouseFujiwara no Kimiko
Issue
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Posthumous name
Tsuigō:
Emperor Go-Fukakusa (後深草院 or 後深草天皇)
HouseImperial House of Japan
FatherEmperor Go-Saga
MotherFujiwara no Kitsushi
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Emperor Go-Fukakusa (後深草天皇, Go-Fukakusa-tennō, 28 June 1243 – 17 August 1304) was the 89th emperor of Japan, according to the traditional order of succession. This reign spanned the years 1246 through 1260.[1]

This 13th-century sovereign was named after the 9th-century Emperor Ninmyō[2] and go- (後), translates literally as "later", and thus he could be called the "Later Emperor Fukakusa". The Japanese word go has also been translated to mean the "second one"; and in some older sources, this emperor may be identified as "Fukakusa, the second", or as "Fukakusa II".

  1. ^ Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). Annales des empereurs du Japon, pp. 248–255; Varley, H. Paul. (1980). Jinnō Shōtōki. pp. 231–232.
  2. ^ Varley, p. 237; n.b., Fukakusa was an alternate name for Emperor Ninmyō.