Emperor Go-Sai

Emperor Go-Sai
後西天皇
Go-Sai by Prince Kōben
Emperor of Japan
ReignJanuary 5, 1655 – March 5, 1663
EnthronementFebruary 17, 1656
PredecessorGo-Kōmyō
SuccessorReigen
ShōgunsTokugawa Ietsuna
BornNagahito (良仁)
January 1, 1638
Kyoto, Kyoto Prefecture, Tokugawa shogunate
DiedMarch 26, 1685(1685-03-26) (aged 47)
Tokugawa shogunate
(Japan)
Burial
SpouseAkiko
IssueSee below
Posthumous name
Tsuigō:
Emperor Go-Sai (後西院 or 後西天皇)
HouseImperial House of Japan
FatherEmperor Go-Mizunoo
MotherKushige (Fujiwara) Takako [ja]

Nagahito (Japanese: 良仁), posthumously honored as Emperor Go-Sai (後西天皇, Go-Sai-tennō, January 1, 1638 – March 22, 1685), also known as Emperor Go-Saiin (後西院天皇, Go-Saiin-tennō), was the 111th emperor of Japan,[1] according to the traditional order of succession.[2]

Go-Sai's reign spanned the years from 1655 through 1663.[3]

This 17th-century sovereign was named after the 9th-century Emperor Junna and go- (後), translates as later, and thus, he could have been called the "Later Emperor Junna". Emperor Go-Sai could not pass the throne onto his descendants. For this reason, he was known as the Go-Saiin emperor, after an alternate name of Emperor Junna, who had confronted and reached an accommodation with similar issues. This emperor was also called "Emperor of the Western Palace" (西院の帝, Saiin no mikado). The Japanese word go has also been translated to mean the second one, and thus, this emperor might be identified as "Junna II". During the Meiji era, the name became just Go-Sai.

  1. ^ "-天皇陵-後西天皇 月輪陵(ごさいてんのう つきのわのみささぎ))". www.kunaicho.go.jp. Retrieved 2023-04-27.
  2. ^ Ponsonby-Fane, Richard. (1959). The Imperial House of Japan, pp. 116.
  3. ^ Rin-siyo, Siyun-zai (1834). Nipon o daï itsi ran; ou, Annales des empereurs du Japon (in French). Oriental Translation Fund. p. 413.