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the two Ashikaga. The war started with most samurai convinced that Takauji was the man they needed to have their grievances redressed, and most peasants were persuaded that they had been better off under the shogunate. The campaign was therefore enormously successful for the Ashikaga, with huge numbers of samurai rushing to join the two brothers. By February 23 of the following year Nitta Yoshisada and the Emperor had lost, and Kyoto itself had fallen. On February 25, 1336, Ashikaga Takauji entered the capital and the Kenmu Restoration ended.
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with is unclear, but he surely had no intention of sharing power with the samurai class. However serious the land ownership problem, Go-Daigo and his advisers made no serious effort to solve it, partly because it was samurai from the manors in the western provinces that had defeated the shogunate for
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When Emperor Go-Daigo ascended the throne in 1318, he immediately manifested his intention to rule without interference from the military in Kamakura. Historical documents show that, disregarding evidence to the contrary, he and his advisers believed that a revival of the Imperial House was possible,
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was rushing there to help it resist the attack. On November 17, 1335, Tadayoshi issued a message in his brother's name asking all samurai to join the Ashikaga and destroy Nitta Yoshisada. The Court, meanwhile, had done the opposite, ordering samurai from all provinces to join Yoshisada and destroy
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He did not understand the importance to him of the warrior class either, because he never properly rewarded his minor samurai supporters, as he could have done using lands from the confiscated Hōjō lands, indulging instead in favoritism. These errors are the key to understanding the events of the
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Prince Morinaga, with his prestige and his devotion to the civilian government cause, was Takauji's natural enemy and could count therefore on the support of his adversaries, among them Nitta Yoshisada, whom Takauji had offended. Tension between the Emperor and the Ashikaga gradually grew, until
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or senior line—to alternate on the throne. The method worked for several successions until a member of the Southern Court ascended to the throne as Emperor Go-Daigo. Go-Daigo wanted to overthrow the shogunate and openly defied Kamakura by naming his own son his heir. In 1331 the shogunate exiled
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so that he could quell the revolt and help his brother. When his request was denied, Takauji organized his forces and returned to Kamakura without the Emperor's permission, defeating the Hōjō. He then installed himself in Kamakura's
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next few decades. After rewarding religious institutions, he prepared to redistribute Hōjō lands, and samurai came to him in great numbers to lay their claims. The biggest rewards were given to samurai, among them
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member to the post of Constable of Kōzuke, Nitta Yoshisada's native province. By late 1335 several thousand of the emperor's men were ready to go to Kamakura, while a great army at the command of
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with himself as a deputy and de facto ruler. The appointment of a warrior to an important post was intended to show the Emperor that the samurai class was not ready for a purely civilian rule.
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neighborhood. When invited to return to Kyoto, he let it be known through his brother Tadayoshi that he felt safer where he was, and started to build himself a mansion in
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went to nobles and court bureaucrats, leaving no spoils for the warriors. By the end of 1335 the Emperor and the nobility had lost all support of the warrior class.
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without an order from the Emperor escorted another of his sons, eleven-year-old Nariyoshi (a.k.a. Narinaga) to Kamakura, where he installed him as Governor of the
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The Emperor reclaimed the property of some manors his family had previously lost control of, rewarding them with, among others, Buddhist temples like
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in the hope to obtain their support. He however failed to protect the rights of tenants and workers, whose complaints poured into the monasteries.
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Sansom says Ashikaga was staying at a temple called Eifuku-ji. This is an error, because Takauji in 1335 is known to have stayed at the
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Another situation that begged for a solution was the land-ownership problem posed by the manors and their lands (see the article
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era, as time was reckoned by the Southern Court; and it is concurrently said to have spanned the years 1334 through 1338 before
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states that Tokiyuki was killed on September 8, 1335 by Ashikaga forces entering Kamakura. This is also certainly an error.
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Kyoto by then was aware that Takauji had assumed wide powers without imperial permission, for example nominating an
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there, as this was seen as still too dangerous. As a compromise, he sent his six-year-old son Prince Norinaga to
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him. In such a situation, any effort to regulate the manors was bound to cause resentment among key allies.
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who had turned against Kamakura when dispatched to put down Go-Daigo's rebellion. At roughly the same time,
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supporters and most Japanese people. The Kenmu Restoration was ultimately overthrown when Takauji became
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in 1333. The Imperial House was restored to power but Go-Daigo's policies failed to satisfy his major
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Go-Daigo wanted to re-establish his rule in Kamakura and the east of the country without sending a
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Unlike every other source consulted Goble, on page 38 of his "History of Japan" (see references),
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era, and it is understood to have spanned the years 1334 through 1336 before the beginning of the
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also records that, although Takauji and Yoshisada were richly rewarded, the offices of
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and that the Kamakura's shogunate was the greatest and most obvious of the obstacles.
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era is in the anomalous condition of having two different durations. Because
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in 1331 against the Kamakura Shogunate but was defeated and forced to
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Takauji had Morinaga arrested on a pretext and first confined him in
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together with his brother Norinaga, a move that immediately aroused
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in the north) and nominated him Governor-General of the Mutsu and
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from 1333 to 1336. The Kenmu Restoration was an effort made by
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Hall, John Whitney; Duus, Peter (1990). Yamamura Kozo (ed.).
2162:(in Japanese). Kamakura: Kamakura Shunshūsha. p. 97. 1445:, ever closer to Kamakura. The city was finally reached, 1524:, the man who had destroyed the Kamakura shogunate, and 2199:
Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain and Ireland.
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Fukaku Aruku - Kamakura Shiseki Sansaku Vol. 1 & 2
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states that Prince Morinaga was not in fact appointed
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Index

Kemmu Restoration
Flag of Kenmu Restoration
Imperial Seal of Kenmu Restoration
Imperial Seal
Heian-kyō
Late Middle Japanese
Shinbutsu-shūgō
Absolute monarchy
Emperor
Go-Daigo
Shōgun
Moriyoshi
Narinaga
Genkō War
Siege of Kamakura
Ashikaga Takauji
Kyoto
Ryō
Kamakura shogunate
Imperial Court in Kyoto
Ashikaga shogunate
Northern Court
Southern Court
a series
History of Japan

Emperor Go-Daigo
Ogata Gekkō
Paleolithic
Jōmon

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