Emperor Go-Murakami

Emperor Go-Murakami

¶Emperor Go-Murakami's personal name was Noriyoshi; his original name, written with a different character but likewise read Noriyoshi, had been given him earlier (Note: following the Jinnō Shōtōki). He was the eighth son of Emperor Go-Daigo (Note: following the Jinnō Shōtōki and the Taiheiki. On consideration, one account in this work, and the Tenshō manuscript, both give him as the seventh son, but this is mistaken).

¶His mother was Shin-Taikenmon-in, who is said to have conceived him after dreaming that she embraced the sun (Note: following the Jinnō Shōtōki). He was born in the third year of Karyaku (1328) (Note: none of the sources record the year of his birth. It is here calculated from the Genkō Nikki Uragaki, which states that he was twelve years of age at his accession in the fourth year of Engen, and from the Kyūrei Zōjiki, which states that he was forty-one years of age at his death in the twenty-third year of Shōhei).

¶In the tenth month of the third year of Genkō (1333), he was sent to garrison Mutsu and Dewa provinces. The Sangi, Councillor, and Mutsu no Kami, Governor of Mutsu, Minamoto-no-Akiie (Kitabatake Akiie), was made his aide (Note: following the Genkō Nikki Uragaki and the Jinnō Shōtōki).

¶In the summer of the first year of Kenmu (1334), he was made shinnō, an imperial prince (Note: following the Jinnō Shōtōki).

¶In the tenth month of the second year, Ashikaga Takauji rose in rebellion; an edict accordingly ordered troops raised to oppose him.

¶In the first month of the first year of Engen (1336), he led the troops of Mutsu and Dewa west in pursuit of Takauji (Note: following the Jinnō Shōtōki and the Taiheiki. On consideration, the Taiheiki contains no entries concerning the emperor; here, as elsewhere below, his deeds are accordingly reconstructed from the Jinnō Shōtōki). In the second month, he underwent his genpuku, coming-of-age ceremony, within the palace, was granted Third Rank of the imperial princes, and returned to Mutsu as its Taishu, Governor-General, to hold it in garrison (Note: following the Jinnō Shōtōki and the Genkō Nikki Uragaki).

¶In the first month of the second year, many of the kokujin, the local warriors of the province, turned against him. He therefore held out together with the Chinjufu Shōgun, General of the Pacification Headquarters, Minamoto-no-Akiie, at Ryōzen Castle (Note: following the Genkō Nikki Uragaki and the Taiheiki; the Hōryaku Kanki states instead that the rebels took Ryōzen and that Akiie fled to Utsunomiya). On hearing that the imperial carriage had made its progress to Yoshino, the kokujin once more submitted. In the eighth month, he set out from Mutsu at the head of Akiie's forces. In the twelfth month, he fought and defeated Ashikaga Yoshiakira at Kamakura.

¶In the third year, he set out for the capital, Kyoto, in the first month (Note: the Jinnō Shōtōki gives the second month). Reaching Aono-ga-hara, he fought the forces of Ashikaga Takauji and put them to flight (Note: following the Taiheiki). In the second month he advanced on Nara, but the fighting turned against him (Note: following the Genkō Nikki Uragaki and the Taiheiki), and he at length entered Yoshino (Note: following the Genkō Nikki Uragaki). In the intercalary seventh month he returned to his garrison headquarters in Mutsu (Note: following the Jinnō Shōtōki, the Genkō Nikki Uragaki, and the Taiheiki). A secret edict permitted him to become Crown Prince (Note: following the Jinnō Shōtōki and the Yoshino Shūi), and the former Major Counsellor Minamoto-no-Chikafusa (Kitabatake Chikafusa) was made his aide (Note: following the Genkō Nikki Uragaki and the Taiheiki). The Middle Captain of the Left Palace Guards, Minamoto-no-Akinobu, was made Chinjufu Shōgun and Mutsu no Suke, Assistant Governor of Mutsu, and the whole of the eastern provinces followed his command (Note: following the Jinnō Shōtōki). In the ninth month he reached Izu-no-saki (Note: following the Genkō Nikki Uragaki, the Jinnō Shōtōki, and the Sekijō-sho Uragaki; the Taiheiki and the Rikashū give Tenryūnada instead), when a great gale suddenly arose; all the ships were driven adrift, and the imperial vessel very nearly sank. But the wind soon shifted, and he was carried back to Shinojima in Ise (Note: following the Genkō Nikki Uragaki, the Jinnō Shōtōki, the Taiheiki, and the Sekijō-sho Uragaki; the name Shinojima follows the Shin'yō Wakashū, while the Taiheiki calls it Shinpū-hama). By imperial command the monk Raii was sent to convey comfort to him (Note: following the Shin'yō Wakashū).

¶In the third month of the fourth year, he returned to Yoshino (Note: following the Jinnō Shōtōki). He was installed as Crown Prince (Note: following the Shin'yō Wakashū; the day is not recorded, but to judge from a poem of the monk Raii's, it was probably this month). On the fifteenth day of the eighth month, the day Kanoto-ushi, the Crown Prince received the abdicated throne, jōi, at the residence of the Minister of the Left, Fujiwara-no-Tsunetada (Note: following the Genkō Nikki Uragaki, the Jinnō Shōtōki, the Sekijō-sho Uragaki, and the Yoshino Shūi; that it took place at Tsunetada's residence follows the Yoshino Shūi. The records of the time have been lost, and it can no longer be established who then held the posts of Regent or Chancellor, of the Three Ministers, or of Captain of the Guards). On the sixteenth day, the day Mizunoe-tora, Emperor Go-Daigo died (Note: following the Rekidai Kōki, the Sekijō-sho Uragaki, the Jinnō Shōtōki, the Genkō Nikki Uragaki, and the Tōji Chōja Bunin). This month, Emperor Go-Daigo was buried (Note: following the Taiheiki, and the Mōri-family and Tenshō manuscripts of the Taiheiki). In the ninth month, Ashikaga Takatsune took Somayama Castle, and the Assistant Captain of the Right Gate Guards, Wakiya Yoshisuke, fled in defeat to Mino. The castles of the northern provinces fell one after another, beginning with Neo Castle, but Hata Tokiyoshi held out at Takanosu Castle (Note: following the Taiheiki). On the fifth day of the winter, tenth month, the day Kanoe-tora, the emperor ascended the throne at the temporary palace, angū, at Yoshino. He was twelve years of age at the time (Note: following the Sekijō-sho Uragaki, taken together with the Genkō Nikki Uragaki). The Gon Chūnagon, Provisional Middle Counsellor, Fujiwara-no-Takasuke, and the Gon Dainagon, Provisional Major Counsellor, Fujiwara-no-Saneyo, together took charge of government (Note: following the Taiheiki). At that time, both military affairs and the governance of the realm were beset by many difficulties, and the temporary palace was too cramped for the various ceremonies to be performed (Note: following the Taiheiki and the Sekijō-sho Uragaki). He could do no more than send an envoy to Ise to present offerings to the Grand Shrine, announce his accession, and pay reverence to the sacred regalia. On the twenty-second day, the day Hinoto-hitsuji, Hata Tokiyoshi fought Ashikaga Takatsune at Mount Iji and was killed in battle. This month, Toki Yoritō and Toki Yoriyasu took Neo Castle, and Wakiya Yoshisuke fled in defeat to Yoshino. On the seventeenth day of the twelfth month, the day Kanoto-ushi (Note: the seventeenth follows a variant text), the late emperor's testamentary edict was proclaimed, urging loyal service to the throne. At this time Kusunoki Masatsura and Wada Masatomo together led troops in guarding the temporary palace. The Seitō Shōgun, General for the Pacification of the East, and Nakatsukasa-kyō, Minister of Central Affairs, Imperial Prince Muneyoshi, was in Tōtōmi province; the Seisei Taishōgun, Great General for the Pacification of the West, and Minister of Ceremonial, Imperial Prince Kaneyoshi, was in Tsukushi; the Chinjufu Shōgun, Minamoto-no-Akinobu, the Minor Captain of the Left Palace Guards, Nitta Yoshimune, the Assistant Captain of the Left Military Guards, Nitta Yoshioki, their kinsmen of the Eda and Ōdate houses, and the Doi, Tokunō, Kikuchi, Misumi, and Sakurayama houses, each held their own provinces and districts and worked toward the restoration of the throne. This year, Takayoshi, son of the former Seii Taishōgun, Great General for the Subjugation of the Barbarians, Imperial Prince Moriyoshi, was made Seii Taishōgun (Note: following the Taiheiki; the name Takayoshi follows the Saisai Yōki). This month, a rain of mercury fell on the capital (Note: following the Nyoze-in Nendaiki).

¶In the spring, second month, of the first year of Kōkoku, the year Kanoe-tatsu (1340), Kō-no-Moroyasu took Ii Castle in Tōtōmi (Note: following the Tsuruoka Shamuki). In the third month, the Southern Court forces in Iyo petitioned for a commanding general to be sent to them, and, with the submission just at this time of Akura Nobutane of Bizen, the sea lanes of the Inland Sea were opened for the first time. The Gyōbu-kyō, Minister of Justice, Wakiya Yoshisuke, was sent to take overall command of the forces of Shikoku and the Nine Provinces (Kyūshū). In summer, on the twenty-third day of the fourth month, the day Hinoe-uma, Yoshisuke reached Iyo, and the forces of the court gained great momentum (Note: following the Taiheiki). On the twenty-eighth day, the day Kanoto-i, the era name was changed (Note: following the Genkō Nikki Uragaki; the Sekijō-sho Uragaki places the change of era beneath the entry for the accession of the fifth day of the tenth month, the day Kanoe-tora, of the fourth year of Engen, and the Wakan Gōun likewise assigns it to the fourth year of Engen). On the fifth day of the fifth month, the day Hinoto-mi, the Gyōbu-kyō Wakiya Yoshisuke died (Note: following the printed Sonpi Bunmyaku; the Taiheiki states that he fell ill on the fourth day of the fifth month and died seven days later). On the nineteenth day, the day Mizunoe-tora, the Chinjufu Shōgun Minamoto-no-Akinobu proceeded to his garrison headquarters (Note: following the Genkō Nikki Uragaki). On the twenty-seventh day, the day Kanoe-inu, Kō-no-Morofuyu took Koma Castle in Shimōsa (Note: following the Genkō Nikki Uragaki, the Tsuruoka Shamuki, and the Hōryaku Kanki). On the twenty-eighth day, the day Kanoto-i, Akinobu attacked Koma Castle and won a great victory over it; Morofuyu burned his camp and fled (Note: following the Yūki Monjo). This month, the Shuri Daibu, Director of Palace Repairs, Kanaya Tsuneuji, captured Tomo Castle by assault, and Hosokawa Yoriharu took Kawanoe Castle. Tsuneuji fought Yoriharu at Senchō-ga-hara and was defeated. In autumn, on the third day of the ninth month, the day Kinoto-ushi, Yoriharu took Seta Castle, and the Sama no Suke, Assistant Head of the Left Horse Bureau, Ōdate Ujiaki, was killed in battle (Note: following the Taiheiki).

¶In the spring, second month, of the second year, the year Kanoto-mi (1341), the Jun Daijin, Associate Minister, Minamoto-no-Chikafusa, composed and presented the Shokugenshō (Note: following the Sekijō-sho Uragaki). In summer, on the sixteenth day of the sixth month, the day Hinoe-tatsu, Kō-no-Morofuyu attacked Chikafusa and the Konoe Chūjō, Middle Captain of the Palace Guards, Minamoto-no-Akitoki, at Oda Castle (Note: following the Sekijō-sho, the Yūki Monjo, and the Hitachi Zaisho Monjo). On the twenty-third day, the day Kinoto-i, Chikafusa sent out troops, struck Morofuyu, and defeated him (Note: following the Yūki Monjo). This month, there was a great drought (Note: following the Zenrin Shoso-den). In winter, in the eleventh month, Oda Haruhisa surrendered to Morofuyu. Chikafusa fled to hold out at Seki Castle, and Akitoki fled to hold out at Daihō Castle; they asked the Gon Shuri Daibu, Provisional Director of Palace Repairs, Yūki Chikatomo, for reinforcements, but none came (Note: following the Yūki Monjo and the Sekijō-sho).

¶In the third year, the year Mizunoe-uma (1342), on the twentieth day of the third month of spring, the day Kanoto-u, Hosshōji temple burned down (Note: following the Taiheiki, the Wakan Gōun, the Tōji Chōja Bunin, the Kōfukuji Ryaku Nendaiki Shōshutsu, and the Kōnendai Ryakuki). In summer, on the seventh day of the fifth month, the day Hinoto-ushi, Eifukumon-in died (Note: following the Rekidai Kōki and the Nyoin Shōden; none of the sources record her funeral). On the nineteenth day of the sixth month, the day Tsuchinoto-mi, the Seisei Taishōgun, Imperial Prince Kaneyoshi, fought Shimazu Sadahisa in Satsuma and defeated him (Note: following the Aso-sha Monjo). This year, portents of Heaven and Earth appeared one after another, and smallpox raged (Note: following the Kōnendai Ryakuki, the Wakan Gōun, and the Kugyō Bunin).

¶In the fourth year, the year Mizunoto-hitsuji (1343), in the seventh month of autumn, there was a drought (Note: following the Gion Shugyō Nikki). This year, Seki Castle and Daihō Castle fell, and the Jun Daijin, Minamoto-no-Chikafusa, and the others fled in defeat all the way to Yoshino (Note: following the Beppu Monjo and the Hitachi Zaisho Monjo). Yūki Chikatomo surrendered to Ashikaga Takauji (Note: following the Yūki Monjo).

¶In the fifth year, the year Kinoe-saru (1344), in summer, in the fifth month, Kanshinji temple in Kawachi burned down (Note: following the Kanshinji Monjo). In autumn, on the first day of the ninth month, the day Hinoto-i, there was a solar eclipse. In winter, on the twentieth day of the eleventh month, the day Hinoe-uma, the Iwashimizu Shrine rumbled (Note: following the Entairyaku).

¶In the sixth year, the year Kinoto-tori (1345), in spring, the Mishima Shrine in Izu burned down, stones fell from the sky in Shimotsuke, a strange light was seen in Kamakura, and the Tsuruoka Shrine rumbled (Note: this work records neither month nor day, so the matter cannot now be established). In autumn, in the seventh month, a comet appeared in the northeast (Note: following the Entairyaku). On the seventeenth day of the eighth month, the day Tsuchinoe-tatsu, there was an earthquake in the capital (Note: following the Kōnendai Ryakuki). This year, Kojima Takanori and Ogino Tomotada welcomed the Shikibu Taifu, Senior Assistant Minister of Ceremonial, Wakiya Yoshiharu, to Kōzuke and raised troops there. Tomotada fought Yamana Tokiuji in Tanba and was defeated, and came forward to surrender. Yoshiharu and Takanori entered the capital and plotted to strike down Ashikaga Takauji, but the plot failed, and they fled in defeat to Shinano (Note: following the Taiheiki).

¶In the first year of Shōhei, the year Hinoe-inu (1346), on the fourth day of the eighth month of autumn, the day Kanoe-inu, swarms of winged ants appeared in the capital between Nakanomikado-Horikawa and Ōmiya Avenue. On the thirteenth day of the ninth month, the day Tsuchinoe-ne, a great wind blew in the capital and houses collapsed (Note: following the Entairyaku). This year, the era name was changed (Note: following the Taiheiki).

¶In the second year, the year Hinoto-i (1347), on the fifteenth day of the first month of spring, the day Tsuchinoe-uma, there was an earthquake in the capital. On the twentieth day, the day Mizunoto-i, the Shinsei (Mercury) and the Saisei (Jupiter) encroached upon one another (Note: following the Entairyaku. On consideration, this work states that on the second day of the second month, the day Kinoto-i, Taihaku, Venus, encroached upon a star, but this appears to contain an error or omission and is not followed here). In summer, on the sixth day of the fifth month, the day Tsuchinoe-saru, there was a great earthquake in the capital (Note: following the Entairyaku and the Kōnendai Ryakuki). In autumn, on the eighth day of the eighth month, the day Tsuchinoe-tora, Taihaku encroached upon the star Ken'en-joshu. On the ninth day, the day Tsuchinoto-u, it did so again. On the first day of the ninth month, the day Kanoe-ne, Taihaku encroached upon Taibi-u-shippō, and Keikoku, Mars, entered Yoki and encroached upon Sekishi. On the eleventh day, the day Kanoe-inu, Taihaku encroached upon Taibi-sa-shippō. On the thirteenth day, the day Mizunoe-ne, it again encroached upon Tōban-jōshō. On the fourteenth day, the day Mizunoto-ushi (Note: the source text's character for the stem is corrupt here; corrected by calculation from the sexagenary cycle), it did so again (Note: following the Entairyaku). On the seventeenth day, the day Hinoe-tatsu, the Kawachi no Kami, Governor of Kawachi, Kusunoki Masatsura, fought Hosokawa Akiuji at the Konda woods and defeated him (Note: the Taiheiki places the entry on the battle of Fujii-dera in the eighth month and that on the battle of Sumiyoshi in the ninth month of the following year, but the Imagawa-family, Mōri-family, and Tenshō manuscripts of the Taiheiki, the Entairyaku, and the Sasaki Keizu are followed here instead). In winter, on the twenty-sixth day of the eleventh month, the day Kinoe-ne, Masatsura met Yamana Tokiuji and Hosokawa Akiuji in battle at Uryūno and won a great victory over them (Note: following the Entairyaku and the Taiheiki).

¶In the third year, the year Tsuchinoe-ne (1348), on the fifth day of the first month of spring, the day Mizunoe-tora, Kō-no-Moronao and Kō-no-Moroyasu attacked. The Kawachi no Kami, Kusunoki Masatsura, together with Kusunoki Masatoki, Wada Masatomo, and Wada Katahide, fought defensively at Shijō-nawate and were killed in battle. The emperor, to avoid Moronao's army, made a progress to Anō (Note: following the Taiheiki; the date follows the Tenshō and Mōri-family manuscripts, and is also found in the Entairyaku. This work's placing of the entry on the Anō temporary palace under the following year is mistaken). On the twenty-fifth day, the day Mizunoe-inu, Moronao set fire to the temporary palace at Yoshino; the shrines and temples there were all burned to the ground (Note: following the Entairyaku and the Taiheiki; the date follows the Entairyaku). Kusunoki Masanori confronted Moroyasu at Ishikawa (Note: following the Taiheiki). In summer, in the fifth month, there was a drought (Note: following the Entairyaku). The forces of the court in Kii fought Ashikaga Tadafuyu and were defeated (Note: following the Entairyaku and the Taiheiki). In autumn, on the last day of the eighth month, the day Kinoe-uma, Taihaku encroached upon the second star of the Room, Bōshuku. On the second day of the ninth month, the day Hinoe-saru, it encroached upon the front star of the Heart, Shinshuku. On the third day, the day Hinoto-tori, it encroached upon the great star of the Heart (Note: following the Entairyaku). In winter, on the twenty-seventh day of the tenth month, the day Kanoe-tora, Kōmyō-in abdicated in favor of the Crown Prince, Okihito. This was Sukō-in (Note: following the Entairyaku, the Kugyō Bunin, the Kōin Shōunroku, and the Kōnendai Ryakuki). On the fourth day of the eleventh month, the day Hinoto-tori, there was thunder in the capital (Note: following the Entairyaku). On the eleventh day, the day Kinoe-tatsu, Emperor Hanazono died (Note: following the Entairyaku, the Kugyō Bunin, the Kōin Shōunroku, and the Jōrakuki).

¶In the fourth year, the year Tsuchinoto-ushi (1349), a kakusei, a guest star, appeared in the spring, first month. On the twenty-sixth day of the second month, the day Hinoto-i, the Shōgun-zuka mound rumbled, and the sound of soldiers and horses was heard in the sky (Note: following the Taiheiki). On the twenty-seventh day, the day Tsuchinoe-ne, Kiyomizudera temple burned down (Note: following the Entairyaku, the Nyoze-in Nendaiki, and the Kōnendai Ryakuki). In summer, on the nineteenth day of the sixth month, the day Tsuchinoto-u (Note: the source text's character for the stem is corrupt here; corrected by calculation from the sexagenary cycle), there was an earthquake in the capital (Note: following the Kōnendai Ryakuki). On the twenty-sixth day, the day Hinoe-inu, Taihaku, Saisei, and Shinsei encroached upon one another (Note: the Taiheiki gives the tenth day). On the twenty-eighth day, the day Tsuchinoe-ne, the Moon, Taihaku, Saisei, and Shinsei all gathered in Tōsei (Note: following the Entairyaku). On the third day of the intercalary month, the day Mizunoe-tatsu, the Iwashimizu Shrine rumbled, and the sound of a whistling arrow was heard flying through the sky from the north side of the shrine (Note: following the Entairyaku and the Mōri-family manuscript of the Taiheiki; the current text of the Taiheiki places this in the sixth month, but this is mistaken), and there was a light that flashed and clashed with itself like lightning (Note: following the Entairyaku; the Taiheiki gives the fifth day, and the Mōri-family manuscript of the Taiheiki the twenty-fifth day). This year, Hatakeyama Kunikiyo took the place of Kō-no-Moroyasu, encamping at Ishikawa and confronting Kusunoki Masanori (Note: following the Taiheiki).

¶In the fifth year, the year Kanoe-tora (1350), on the sixteenth day of the first month of spring, the day Mizunoe-saru, there was thunder, rain, and hail in the capital (Note: following the Gion Shigyō Nikki). On the twenty-third day of the second month, the day Tsuchinoe-saru, something fell on the capital like rain, shaped like baishi, cowrie shells, and red in color (Note: following the Entairyaku). In summer, on the twentieth day of the fifth month, the day Kinoe-inu, there was a great earthquake in the capital (Note: following the Tenshō manuscript of the Taiheiki). On the twenty-third day, the day Hinoto-ushi, there was a great earthquake in the capital (Note: following the Daigo Zatsuroku and the Gion Shigyō Nikki). On the twenty-fifth day, the day Tsuchinoto-u, there was again a great earthquake. On the twenty-eighth day, the day Mizunoe-uma, there was a great flood in the capital (Note: following the Gion Shigyō Nikki). On the last day, the day Mizunoto-hitsuji, there was an earthquake in the capital (Note: following the Gion Shigyō Nikki and the Kōnendai Ryakuki). On the tenth day of the sixth month, the day Mizunoto-mi, there was again a tremor. On the eleventh day, the day Kinoe-uma, there was again a tremor. On the twentieth day, the day Mizunoto-u, there was again a tremor. On the twenty-second day, the day Kinoto-mi, there was again a great earthquake. On the twenty-fifth day, the day Tsuchinoe-saru, there was again a tremor (Note: following the Gion Shigyō Nikki). In autumn, on the second day of the seventh month, the day Kinoto-u, there was again a tremor, and the Shōgun-zuka mound rumbled (Note: following the Kōnendai Ryakuki). On the eighth day, the day Kanoto-tori, there was a great wind in the capital. On the eleventh day of the eighth month, the day Kinoe-uma, there was a fire in the capital (Note: following the Gion Shigyō Nikki). On the seventeenth day, the day Kanoe-ne, flowers of gold and silver formed on the pillars of the shrine halls of the Kasuga Shrine and the Wakamiya (Note: following the Entairyaku). In winter, on the sixth day of the eleventh month, the day Hinoto-mi, there was thunder in the capital (Note: following the Gion Shigyō Nikki). On the ninth day of the twelfth month, the day Kanoe-tora, Ashikaga Tadayoshi submitted to the court, and from this many of his captains and men likewise submitted (Note: following the Taiheiki). On the thirteenth day, the day Kinoe-uma, an edict ordered the Sama no Kami, Head of the Left Horse Bureau, Ashikaga Tadayoshi, to subdue Ashikaga Takauji (Note: following the Taiheiki, the Daigo Zatsuroku, and the Yoshino Kotogaki-an). Hatakeyama Kunikiyo lifted his siege of Ishikawa and withdrew, and Momonoi Naotsune raised troops in Ecchū; both acted in concert with this move (Note: following the Taiheiki and the Entairyaku). This month, there was an earthquake in the capital (Note: following the Kōnendai Ryakuki).

¶In the sixth year, the year Kanoto-u (1351), on the seventh day of the first month of spring, the day Hinoto-mi, the Sama no Kami, Ashikaga Tadayoshi, and others led troops forward to hold Otokoyama. Momonoi Naotsune, in secret league with Tadayoshi, led the troops of the northern provinces to Enryakuji and pressed Ashikaga Takauji in the capital. On the thirteenth day, the day Mizunoto-i, Uesugi Tomosada responded to Tadayoshi's call (Note: the name Tomosada follows the Entairyaku), and with the troops of Bingo, Bitchū, Aki, and Suō fought Kō-no-Moroyasu at Mount Sei in Bitchū, but was defeated (Note: following the Taiheiki). On the fifteenth day, the day Kinoto-ushi, Ashikaga Yoshiakira fled the capital. Momonoi Naotsune entered the capital; Yoshiakira returned together with Ashikaga Takauji and attacked Naotsune, who fled in defeat. On the sixteenth day, the day Hinoe-tora, Takauji's army collapsed, and he at last fled west together with Yoshiakira (Note: following the Entairyaku, the Taiheiki, and the Tōji Chōja Bunin). Momonoi Naotsune returned to the capital and held it. On the seventeenth day, the day Hinoto-u, Uesugi Yoshinori raised troops in Kōzuke and, in distant response to the forces of the court, attacked Kō-no-Morofuyu in Kai and killed him (Note: the seventeenth follows the Jōrakuki). In the second month, on the fourth day, the day Kinoe-saru, Ishidō Yorifusa and others encamped at Kōmyōji temple. When Takauji came to attack, Yorifusa and the others fought a series of engagements and defeated him. Ashikaga Tadayoshi sent Ishidō Yoshimoto, Hatakeyama Kunikiyo, and others to relieve Yorifusa. On the seventeenth day, the day Hinoto-tori, Yorifusa and Kunikiyo fought Takauji at Mikage-hama and defeated him (Note: following the Taiheiki). On the nineteenth day, the day Tsuchinoto-i, there was a great earthquake in the capital, and the Shōgun-zuka mound rumbled (Note: following the Kōnendai Ryakuki). On the last day, the day Tsuchinoto-tori, Ashikaga Tadayoshi and Hatakeyama Kunikiyo once again turned against the court (Note: following the Entairyaku, the Taiheiki, and the Tōji Chōja Bunin). On the seventeenth day of the third month, the day Hinoe-tora, there was an earthquake in the capital. In summer, on the eleventh day of the fourth month, the day Kanoe-tora, there was again a tremor (Note: following the Kōnendai Ryakuki). On the first day of the fifth month, the day Tsuchinoto-tori, a solar eclipse had been predicted, but it could not be seen because of rain and overcast skies. On the sixth day of the sixth month, the day Mizunoto-hitsuji, it was as cold as winter. In autumn, in the seventh month, the pine trees at the Grand Shrine of Ise fell without apparent cause, and several thousand pines at the Kamo Shrine likewise withered (Note: following the Entairyaku). Akamatsu Sokuyū submitted to the court and petitioned to raise troops under the banner of the Seii Taishōgun, Imperial Prince Takayoshi, to strike down Ashikaga Takauji; this petition was granted (Note: following the Taiheiki). In the eighth month, the outer shrine at Ise rumbled, and a sound like the jingling of a horse's bit was heard in the sky; the sound of whistling arrows was heard at the outer shrine and at the Aramatsuri Shrine (Note: following the Zoku Jinnō Shōtōki). Ashikaga Takauji requested to surrender, but this was not granted (Note: following the Entairyaku). On the seventh day of the ninth month, the day Mizunoto-ushi, the Kamo-mioya Shrine shook, and the sound of whistling arrows was heard. In winter, in the tenth month, Takauji and Yoshiakira again requested to surrender, and this was permitted. On the twenty-fourth day, the day Kanoe-ne, an edict ordered Takauji to subdue Ashikaga Tadayoshi (Note: following the Entairyaku and the Taiheiki; the twenty-fourth follows the rinji, imperial rescript, recorded in the Entairyaku; the Tōji Chōja Bunin gives the twenty-fifth, and a variant Taiheiki text the twenty-third). On the fourth day of the eleventh month, the day Kanoe-inu, Takauji led troops to the Kantō (Note: following the Entairyaku and the Tōji Chōja Bunin; the current text of the Taiheiki gives the fourteenth, and a variant text the twenty-fourth). Yoshiakira, left in charge of the capital, requested that the imperial carriage be returned to the capital, and an edict granted this (Note: following the Taiheiki). On the seventh day, the day Mizunoto-ushi, Ashikaga Yoshiakira deposed Sukō-in and the Crown Prince's younger brother and heir, Naohito. The era name Kan'ō was abolished and the era name Shōhei adopted in its place (Note: following the Kugyō Bunin, the Rekidai Kōki, the Kōnendai Ryakuki, the Tōji Chōja Bunin, and the Zoku Jinnō Shōtōki). On the ninth day, the day Kinoto-u, Tōnomine burned down (Note: following the Entairyaku). On the thirteenth day, the day Tsuchinoto-hitsuji — earlier, Fujiwara-no-Kinkata had served Sukō-in and had once been Daijō Daijin, Chancellor. On this day he was appointed Minister of the Left (Note: following the Kugyō Bunin). On the nineteenth day, the day Kinoto-ushi, there were repeated earthquakes in the capital, and on the twenty-fourth day, the day Kanoe-uma, it was decided, in accordance with the rule of katatagae, directional taboo, observed that year, to wait until the following spring before returning the imperial carriage to the capital. This month, Fujiwara-no-Noritada held concurrently the post of Captain of the Left Palace Guards, and the Chūnagon, Middle Counsellor, Minamoto-no-Akiyoshi, held concurrently that of Captain of the Right Palace Guards (Note: following the Entairyaku; Akiyoshi's substantive office follows the Yoshino Shūi and the Gion Shigyō Nikki, while Noritada's substantive office is missing from the text and cannot now be established). On the twenty-third day of the twelfth month, the day Tsuchinoe-inu, the Middle Captain of the Left Palace Guards, Minamoto-no-Tomotada, was commanded by edict to take charge of the new sword, jewel, and mirror and convey them to the temporary palace (Note: following the Entairyaku, the Kōnendai Ryakuki, and the Kōin Shōunroku; the Taiheiki places this on the twenty-third day of the intercalary second month of the following year, and the Kugyō Bunin on the twenty-fifth day, but both are mistaken). On the twenty-sixth day, the day Kanoto-ushi, the Special Festival of Hie was held (Note: on consideration, ever since the emperor's accession, both military affairs and the governance of the realm had been beset with difficulties, so that the regular rites and ceremonies of the court had all been suspended and left unperformed. By this time the recovery of the capital was close at hand, and the various ceremonies at last began to be performed again. It is not this work's usual practice to record such things, but they are specially noted here; the same holds true below). On the twenty-eighth day, the day Mizunoto-u, the rites of the Naishidokoro, the Place of the Palace Attendants, were performed (Note: following the Entairyaku). The Jusangū, Fujiwara-no-Kadoko, was given the title Shin-Taikenmon-in (Note: following the Entairyaku, the Nyoin Shōden, and the Taiheiki). Kōgon-in and Sukō-in were both given the title Daijō Tennō, Retired Emperor (Note: following the Rekidai Kōki and the Kōnendai Ryakuki). The former Minister of the Left, Fujiwara-no-Moromoto, was made Kanpaku (Note: following the Entairyaku and the Kugyō Bunin), Minamoto-no-Chikafusa was made Jusangū, and the assembled vassals who had accompanied the imperial carriage were awarded rewards according to rank (Note: following the Taiheiki). This month, the Kanpaku Fujiwara-no-Yoshimoto, who had served under Sukō-in, and the court nobles and officials under him, all came to pay homage at the temporary palace (Note: following the Taiheiki and the Kugyō Bunin). An edict ordered their court ranks and offices each reduced by one grade (Note: following the Taiheiki). This year, an epidemic raged (Note: following the Entairyaku).

¶In the seventh year, the year Mizunoe-tatsu (1352), on the first day of the first month of spring, the day Hinoe-uma, the Shihōhai, Worship of the Four Directions, was performed (Note: following the Taiheiki and the Entairyaku). There was an earthquake in the capital. On the fifth day, the day Kanoe-inu, the conferral of court rank was carried out (Note: following the Entairyaku). On the eighth day, the day Mizunoto-ushi, rites were performed at the Shingon-in (Note: following the Taiheiki). On the fifteenth day, the day Kanoe-saru, there was an earthquake in the capital (Note: following the Entairyaku). Ashikaga Yoshiakira presented three thousand ryō of gold and ten horses, and bestowed gold brocade and horses upon the rear palace and the assembled officials, each according to rank (Note: following the Taiheiki). In the second month, on the morning of the day Kanoto-i, Chōrakumon-in died (Note: following the Nyoin Shōden). On the fifth day, the day Kinoto-u, the Ōharano Festival was held. On the thirteenth day, the day Hinoto-i, the Sekiten, the Confucian rite, was performed in the capital. On the twenty-third day, the day Hinoto-tori, an edict suspended the collection of the jishisen, land tax, in the capital (Note: following the Entairyaku). On the twenty-third day, the day Kanoe-ne, the imperial carriage set out from Anō and reached Tōjō, the assembled officials all donning military dress (Note: following the Entairyaku and the Taiheiki). Earlier, Anau had been renamed Anō (Note: following the Entairyaku). On the twenty-eighth day, the day Mizunoe-tora, the carriage reached Sumiyoshi and entered the residence of the shrine priest Tsumori-no-Kuninatsu (Note: following the Entairyaku and the Taiheiki; the Taiheiki gives the twenty-seventh day). The Saemon no Jō, Lieutenant of the Left Gate Guards, Kusunoki Masanori, and Wada Masatada, together with the Makino, Miwa, Yuasa, and Yamamoto houses, the Eight Shōji of Kumano, and more than seven thousand troops from the eighteen districts of Yoshino, stood guard (Note: Masanori's office of Saemon no Jō follows the Entairyaku). On the last day, the day Kinoe-tatsu, offerings and horses were presented to the Sumiyoshi Shrine. A pine tree before the shrine snapped without apparent cause. This month, Yura Shin'a and Kojima Takanori both carried a secret command to the eastern provinces, seeking to have the Minor Captain of the Left Palace Guards, Nitta Yoshimune, the Assistant Captain of the Left Military Guards, Nitta Yoshioki, and the Shikibu Taifu, Wakiya Yoshiharu, raise troops to strike down Ashikaga Takauji (Note: following the Taiheiki). On the fifteenth day of the intercalary month, the day Tsuchinoto-hitsuji, he made a progress to Shitennōji temple (Note: following the Gion Shigyō Nikki and the Taiheiki; the Entairyaku gives the sixteenth day). The Captain of the Right Palace Guards, Minamoto-no-Akiyoshi, led the troops of Iga and Ise to the temporary residence (Note: following the Taiheiki and the Entairyaku). Nitta Yoshimune, Nitta Yoshioki, and Wakiya Yoshiharu raised troops and advanced through Kōzuke and Musashi, and officers and men responded to their call (Note: following the Taiheiki; the date follows the Entairyaku, while this work gives the eighth day). On the nineteenth day, the day Mizunoto-i, the imperial carriage reached Otokoyama (Note: following the Entairyaku, the Taiheiki, and the Gion Shigyō Nikki). The forces of the Hōin, Dharma Seal, Jōsei, blocked the Akai-no-Ōwatari crossing with troops (Note: following the Taiheiki, the Entairyaku, the Gion Shigyō Nikki, and the Godanbō Ryakki-shō; the name Jōsei follows the Tenshō manuscript of the Taiheiki, while the Zenhōji Monjo gives the fifteenth day). On the twentieth day, the day Kinoe-ne, Minamoto-no-Akiyoshi from Toba, the Minor Captain of the Palace Guards, Minamoto-no-Akitsune, from Karato-goe, and the commanders Kusunoki Masanori and Wada Masatada by way of the Katsura River, all entered the capital together, fought Hosokawa Akiuji and Hosokawa Yoriharu, and defeated them, killing Yoriharu. Ashikaga Yoshiakira fled in defeat to Ōmi (Note: the date follows the Imagawa-family, Hōjō-family, Mōri-family, Konshō-in, and Saigen-in manuscripts of the Taiheiki, as well as the Entairyaku, the Tōji Chōja Bunin, the Gion Shugyō Nikki, the Jōrakuki, and the Godanbō Ryakki-shō; this work gives the twenty-seventh day, and the Tenshō manuscript of the Taiheiki the twenty-second day). The Jun Sangū, Minamoto-no-Chikafusa, and Minamoto-no-Akiyoshi were commanded by edict to take overall charge of the administration of the capital. The Seitō Shōgun, Imperial Prince Muneyoshi, raised troops in Shinano, joined forces with Nitta Yoshioki, Nitta Yoshimune, and Wakiya Yoshiharu, fought Ashikaga Takauji at Kanaihara in Musashi, and won a great victory over him (Note: the place name Kanaihara follows the Tsuruoka Shamuki and the Kitsuregawa Keizu; this work gives Kotesashihara). On the twenty-first day, the day Kinoto-ushi, Minamoto-no-Akiyoshi and the Uemon Gon-no-Suke, Provisional Assistant Captain of the Right Gate Guards, Fujiwara-no-Mitsusuke, were sent, and the Minister of the Left, Fujiwara-no-Kinkata, was commanded by edict to receive Kōgon-in, Kōmyō-in, Sukō-in, and Imperial Prince Naohito, and bring them to the temporary palace at Otokoyama (Note: the twenty-first day follows the Entairyaku, the Tōji Chōja Bunin, the Gion Shigyō Nikki, and the Godanbō Ryakki-shō; this work gives the twenty-seventh day, and the Chinyōki and the Kōdai Ryakki the twentieth day). On the twenty-third day, the day Hinoto-u, Nitta Yoshioki and Wakiya Yoshiharu attacked Kamakura and put Ashikaga Motouji to flight (Note: the twenty-third follows the Hōjō-family and Nanto manuscripts). On the twenty-eighth day, the day Mizunoe-saru, Ashikaga Takauji attacked Imperial Prince Muneyoshi and Nitta Yoshimune at Fuefukimine (Note: following the Taiheiki). Muneyoshi and Yoshimune met the attack at Kotesashihara, but were defeated (Note: following the Taiheiki and the Shin'yō Wakashū). This month, the Mutsu Kokushi, Provincial Governor of Mutsu, Minamoto-no-Morichika, led troops to Shirakawa (Note: following the Entairyaku; his name follows the Shin'yō Wakashū and the Yūki Monjo). On the third day of the third month, the day Hinoe-ne, Kōgon-in, Kōmyō-in, Sukō-in, and Imperial Prince Naohito were moved to Tōjō (Note: following the Entairyaku and the Kōnendai Ryakuki; the Kōdaiki and the Tōji Chōja Bunin give the fourth day for the third, and the Taiheiki gives Anō in place of Tōjō). On the fourth day, the day Hinoto-ushi, Nitta Yoshioki and Wakiya Yoshiharu abandoned Kamakura and held out at Kawamura Castle (Note: following the Taiheiki). On the fifteenth day, the day Tsuchinoe-ne, Ashikaga Yoshiakira encamped at Higashiyama and pressed upon Otokoyama; Minamoto-no-Akiyoshi withdrew his forces to the Yodo River, removed the bridges, and held the line there (Note: following the Taiheiki, taken together with the Kōdaiki, the Tōji Chōja Bunin, the Godanbō Ryakki-shō, and the Tenshō manuscript of the Taiheiki). On the twenty-first day, the day Kinoe-uma, Ashikaga Yoshiakira occupied Tōji temple, and Minamoto-no-Akiyoshi withdrew his forces to Otokoyama. Akamatsu Sokuyū turned against Yoshiakira and surrendered to the court (Note: following the Taiheiki; the date follows the Gion Shigyō Nikki, while this work gives the seventeenth day). On the twenty-fourth day, the day Hinoto-tori, Shiba Ujitsune, Shiba Ujiyori, and Shiba Akitsune blocked the Tōjō road and pressed upon Otokoyama (Note: following the Mōri-family and Tenshō manuscripts of the Taiheiki). On the twenty-seventh day, the day Kanoe-ne, Kusunoki Masanori and Wada Masatada fought Hosokawa Kiyouji, Hosokawa Akiuji, and Toki Yasusada at Mount Arasaka. Masatada killed Yasusada, and at length withdrew his forces to hold Otokoyama (Note: following the Taiheiki). This spring, there was a famine (Note: following the Entairyaku). In summer, on the twenty-first day of the fourth month, the day Mizunoto-i, the Hyōe no Kami, Captain of the Left Military Guards, Fujiwara-no-Yasunaga, fought Yamana Moroji at the Yodo River, but with no advantage (Note: the date follows the Entairyaku). On the twenty-fifth day, the day Hinoto-u, Ashikaga Yoshiakira attacked Otokoyama. Minamoto-no-Akiyoshi, Kusunoki Masanori, and Wada Masatada fought defensively at Sonodono-guchi and Sarashina (Note: following the Taiheiki). The enemy set fire to private houses, and the forces of the court withdrew (Note: following the Entairyaku and the Taiheiki). On the twenty-seventh day, the day Tsuchinoto-mi, Imperial Prince Muneyoshi from Shinano, Nitta Yoshimune from Echigo, Momonoi Naotsune from Ecchū, Kira Mitsusada and Ishidō Yoshifusa from Suruga, and Doi Tokunō from Iyo, each led troops in loyal service to the throne (Note: following the Taiheiki). On the twenty-ninth day, the day Kanoto-hitsuji, many of the trees on Mount Kasuga withered (Note: following the Entairyaku). On the fourth day of the fifth month, the day Hinoe-ne, Fujiwara-no-Yasunaga attacked Hosokawa Akiuji's camp by night and defeated it. Kusunoki Masanori and Wada Masatada returned to Kawachi and sought to gather troops to drive off the enemy at Otokoyama. Wada Masatada died (Note: this work gives no date, but the event is provisionally placed here). On the tenth day, the day Mizunoe-uma, a certain Yano and Yukawa-no-Shōji and more than two hundred others (Note: the Gion Shigyō Nikki identifies Yukawa-no-Shōji as the lay monk Yuasa) turned against Ashikaga Yoshiakira and submitted to the court (Note: following the Entairyaku and the Taiheiki; the name of the Yano follows the Taiheiki, and the number two hundred the Entairyaku, while the Taiheiki itself gives three hundred). On the night of the eleventh day, the day Mizunoto-hitsuji, the emperor, clad in armor and mounted on horseback, broke through the siege and made a progress to Nara. The enemy closed in from front and rear, and the Gon Dainagon, Provisional Major Counsellor, Fujiwara-no-Takasuke, and more than three hundred others were killed in battle (Note: following the Entairyaku and the Taiheiki. The Taiheiki states that a certain prince, the Dainagon of En'myō-in, and the Chūnagon of Sanjō, Masakata, likewise all died, but a letter of Fujiwara-no-Kinyasu quoted in the Entairyaku states that, apart from Takasuke, no one else lost his life; according to this, the Taiheiki's account is probably mistaken). Ichinomiya Aritane pressed close upon the emperor, but Fujiwara-no-Yasunaga struck him down. On reaching the Kizu River, the enemy again surrounded them and loosed arrows; an arrow struck the emperor's armor, but Yasunaga, alone on horseback, fought them off. Presently more than a hundred soldiers came to his relief and struck the enemy, who then fled in defeat (Note: following the Taiheiki). On the twelfth day, the day Kinoe-saru, he passed by way of Tōshōdaiji temple and returned to the temporary palace at Anō (Note: following the Entairyaku, the Taiheiki, and the Saisai Yōki). This month, Imperial Prince Muneyoshi, Nitta Yoshimune, and the others, hearing that Otokoyama had fallen, withdrew their troops and returned (Note: following the Taiheiki). On the second day of the sixth month, the day Mizunoto-u, Kōgon-in, Kōmyō-in, Sukō-in, and Imperial Prince Naohito were confined at a detached residence at Anō (Note: following the Entairyaku and the Taiheiki; the Yoshino Shūi places this in the spring). In autumn, on the twelfth day of the eighth month, the day Mizunoe-ne, Shiyūki, a form of comet, appeared in the west (Note: following the Entairyaku). On the seventeenth day, the day Hinoto-mi, Ashikaga Yoshiakira had Kōgon-in's son, Imperial Prince Iyahito, proclaimed sovereign in the capital. This was Go-Kōgon-in (Note: following the Entairyaku, the Kōin Shōunroku, and the Imagawa-family and Mōri-family manuscripts of the Taiheiki; the Taiheiki gives the twenty-seventh day, but this is mistaken). In the ninth month, Yamana Tokiuji and Yamana Moroyoshi raised troops in Hōki and brought Izumo, Inaba, and Oki to submission (Note: following the Taiheiki). In winter, in the eleventh month, Kusunoki Masanori, Kira Mitsusada, and Ishidō Yorifusa struck a certain Settsu shugodai, Deputy Military Governor of Settsu, and put him to flight. Ashikaga Tadafuyu submitted to the court (Note: following the Entairyaku; the Taiheiki places this in the ninth year of Shōhei).

¶In the eighth year, the year Mizunoto-mi (1353), on the twenty-third day of the third month of spring, the day Kanoto-u, Kira Mitsusada and Ishidō Yorifusa fought Toki Yoriyasu at Suita, but with no advantage. This month, the commanders of Chinzei (Kyūshū) responded to the call of the Uhyōe no Suke, Assistant Captain of the Right Military Guards, Ashikaga Tadafuyu, and his military strength grew greatly. The Izu no Kami, Governor of Izu, Yamana Tokiuji, brought Mimasaka under his control (Note: following the Entairyaku). In summer, on the fifth day of the fourth month, the day Mizunoe-tora, there was a great wind in the capital, and the Shingon-in was destroyed (Note: following the Tōji Chōja Bunin). On the seventh day of the fifth month, the day Mizunoto-tori, Yamana Tokiuji and the others set out from Hōki. The Dainagon, Major Counsellor, Fujiwara-no-Noritada, the Dainagon Fujiwara-no-Takatoshi, the Hyōe no Kami, Captain of the Left Military Guards, Fujiwara-no-Yasunaga, the Sama no Kami, Kusunoki Masanori, the Izumi no Kami, Governor of Izumi, Wada Masatake, and the Danjō Shōhitsu, Junior Assistant of the Board of Censors, Akamatsu Ujinori, were commanded by edict to lead the troops of Izumi, Kawachi, Yamato, and Kii to join forces with Tokiuji (Note: following the Taiheiki; Noritada's office follows the Entairyaku). On the ninth day of the sixth month, the day Kinoto-mi, the commanders fought Ashikaga Yoshiakira at Kaguraoka, defeated him, and put him to flight. The forces of the court recovered the capital (Note: following the Entairyaku, the Taiheiki, the Tōji Chōja Bunin, and the Jōrakuki; the Kōnendai Ryakuki gives the sixth day, the Imagawa-family, Hōjō-family, and Nanto manuscripts of the Taiheiki the seventh day, and the Zoku Jinnō Shōtōki the second day). On the thirteenth day, the day Tsuchinoto-tori, the Kamon no Suke, Assistant Director of the Bureau of Palace Cleaning, Horiguchi Sadasuke, met Ashikaga Yoshiakira in battle at Manoura (Note: following the Taiheiki), killing his commander Sasaki Hidetsuna (Note: following the Entairyaku and the Taiheiki). On the seventeenth day, the day Mizunoto-ushi, an edict declared: "Let the court nobles who, on the occasion of Go-Kōgon-in's accession, fled east in his company all be stripped of office and have their residences confiscated." The Chūnagon, Middle Counsellor, Fujiwara-no-Munefusa, and the former Ōkura-kyō, Minister of the Treasury, Morotsugu (his surname is missing from the text), were sent to carry out the inspection of this matter (Note: following the Entairyaku). In autumn, on the twenty-fourth day of the seventh month, the day Tsuchinoto-ushi (Note: the text's character for the stem is corrupt here; corrected by calculation from the sexagenary cycle), Ashikaga Yoshiakira and Akamatsu Sokuyū advanced upon and pressed the capital (Note: following the Entairyaku and the Taiheiki; the twenty-fourth follows the Entairyaku). Yamana Tokiuji withdrew his troops and returned to Hōki (Note: following the Taiheiki), and all the forces of the court withdrew as well (Note: following the Entairyaku, the Taiheiki, and the Tōji Chōja Bunin; the Kōnendai Ryakuki gives the twenty-fifth day). On the twenty-sixth day, the day Kanoto-u, Ashikaga Yoshiakira entered the capital (Note: following the Entairyaku). On the twenty-first day of the ninth month, the day Kinoto-tori, Ashikaga Takauji escorted Go-Kōgon-in into the capital (Note: following the Tōji Chōja Bunin, the Rekidai Kōki, the Kōnendai Ryakuki, and the Entairyaku). On the twenty-fourth day, the day Tsuchinoe-ne, swarms of winged ants appeared at the Iwashimizu Shrine. This month, the Uhyōe no Suke Ashikaga Tadafuyu was made Sō Tsuibushi, Chief Pursuit and Capture Commissioner. This year, there was drought, prolonged rain, and flood (Note: following the Entairyaku).

¶In the ninth year, the year Kinoe-uma (1354), in summer, on the seventeenth day of the fourth month, the day Tsuchinoto-tori, the Jun Sangū, Minamoto-no-Chikafusa, died (Note: following the Jōrakuki). In winter, on the first day of the eleventh month, the day Tsuchinoe-ne, it was the winter solstice (Note: following the Entairyaku and the Kugyō Bunin). On the fourth day, the day Kanoto-u, Taihaku encroached upon Kokusei (Note: following the Entairyaku). On the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, the day Kanoe-uma, the Uhyōe no Suke Ashikaga Tadafuyu and the Izu no Kami Yamana Tokiuji set out with the troops of Hōki, intending to strike down Ashikaga Takauji. Ashikaga Takatsune, together with the Harima no Kami, Governor of Harima, Momonoi Naotsune, led the troops of the northern provinces and responded to Tadafuyu's call. On the twenty-fourth day, the day Kanoto-mi, Tadafuyu and the others advanced as far as Tanba. Ashikaga Takauji escorted Go-Kōgon-in and fled in defeat to Ōmi (Note: following the Taiheiki; the twenty-fourth follows the Rekidai Kōki, the Kōnendai Ryakuki, the Tōji Chōja Bunin, and the Mōri-family and Tenshō manuscripts of the Taiheiki; this work places it instead on the twelfth day of the first month of the following year).

¶In the tenth year, the year Kinoto-hitsuji (1355), on the tenth day of the first month of spring, the day Hinoto-tori, the Harima no Kami Momonoi Naotsune reached the capital (Note: following the Entairyaku; the Taiheiki gives the thirteenth day, and the Tenshō manuscript of the Taiheiki and the Tōji Chōja Bunin the sixteenth day). On the sixteenth day, the day Mizunoto-u, the Owari no Kami, Governor of Owari, Ashikaga Takatsune, reached the capital (Note: following the Tenshō manuscript of the Taiheiki). On the twenty-second day, the day Tsuchinoto-tori, the Uhyōe no Suke Ashikaga Tadafuyu and the Izu no Kami Yamana Tokiuji reached the capital (Note: following the Entairyaku and the Tōji Chōja Bunin; the name Tokiuji follows the Mōri-family manuscript of the Taiheiki; the current text of the Taiheiki places this in the ninth year, but this is mistaken). Ashikaga Takauji held out at Enryakuji (Note: following the Tōji Chōja Bunin; the Taiheiki places this on the fourth day of the second month). On the fourth day of the second month, the day Kanoto-tori, Tadafuyu, Takatsune, and Naotsune held Tōji temple. The Dainagon Fujiwara-no-Takatoshi and the Hyōe no Kami Fujiwara-no-Yasunaga were sent to hold Otokoyama. Yamana Tokiuji and the Uemon no Suke, Assistant Captain of the Right Gate Guards, Yamana Moroji, fought Ashikaga Yoshiakira at Mount Kōnan, but were defeated. This month, Takatsune, Naotsune, and the others fought repeatedly in the capital. On the twelfth day of the third month, the day Tsuchinoe-inu, the forces of the court fought a great battle against Ashikaga Takauji at Shichijō, but were defeated (Note: following the Taiheiki; the twelfth day follows the Entairyaku, the Tōji Chōja Bunin, and the Hōjō-family, Saigen-in, Nanto, and Tenshō manuscripts of the Taiheiki; this work gives the thirteenth day). On the thirteenth day, the day Tsuchinoto-i, Ashikaga Tadafuyu and the other commanders withdrew to hold Sumiyoshi, Shitennōji, and Sakai-no-ura, but at length each withdrew his forces (Note: following the Entairyaku, the Tōji Chōja Bunin, and the Taiheiki). On the twenty-second day, the day Tsuchinoe-saru, Ashikaga Takauji and Ashikaga Yoshiakira entered the capital. This month, swarms of winged ants appeared at the golden hall of Kōfukuji temple. In summer, on the nineteenth day of the sixth month, the day Tsuchinoto-tori, there was a great wind in the capital, and houses collapsed. This month, the pond of the Shinsen'en garden ran dry (Note: following the Entairyaku). In autumn, on the eighth day of the eighth month, the day Kanoto-tori, Kōmyō-in was permitted to return to the capital (Note: following the Entairyaku and the Kōnendai Ryakuki). This month, the Seitō Shōgun, Imperial Prince Muneyoshi, raised troops in Shinano, and a certain Suwa-no-Hafuri and a certain Nishina responded to his call (Note: following the Entairyaku).

¶In the eleventh year, the year Hinoe-saru (1356), on the ninth day of the first month of spring, the day Kanoe-tora, there was a great wind and thunder in the capital. Ashikaga Takatsune turned against the court and surrendered to Ashikaga Takauji (Note: following the Entairyaku). On the seventeenth day of the second month, the day Tsuchinoe-tatsu, lightning struck Kōfukuji temple, and the eastern golden hall and pagoda burned (Note: following the Entairyaku and the Kōfukuji Ryaku Nendaiki). In autumn, on the third day of the seventh month, the day Kanoto-mi, there was a great earthquake in the capital (Note: following the Entairyaku). On the fourteenth day of the eighth month, the day Mizunoe-inu, there was a great wind in the capital (Note: following the Kōnendai Ryakuki and the Kōfukuji Ryaku Nendaiki), and there was a flood. The gate of the Daijōkan government hall collapsed, and the Uji Bridge was destroyed (Note: following the Entairyaku and the Tōji Chōja Bunin). This year, there were many robbers in the capital (Note: following the Entairyaku).

¶In the twelfth year, the year Hinoto-tori (1357), on the eighteenth day of the second month of spring, the day Mizunoto-i, Kōgon-in, Sukō-in, and Imperial Prince Naohito were permitted to return to the capital (Note: following the Entairyaku, the Taiheiki, the Kōnendai Ryakuki, and the Kōin Shōunroku). In autumn, on the twenty-second day of the intercalary seventh month, the day Kinoe-uma, Kōgimon-in died (Note: following the Rekidai Kōki and the Jōrakuki; the Kōkyū-den gives the twenty-first day; none of the sources record the date of her funeral). In winter, on the twenty-second day of the eleventh month, the day Mizunoe-inu, Taihaku encroached upon Kokusei. On the twenty-fifth day, the day Kinoto-ushi, Keikoku encroached upon the second star of Tenkō. On the twenty-ninth day, the day Tsuchinoto-mi, it encroached upon it once more. On the eighth day of the twelfth month, the day Tsuchinoe-tora, Taihaku and Saisei encroached upon one another (Note: following the Entairyaku). This month, he took refuge from the directional taboo at the residence of the former Kanpaku, Fujiwara-no-Moromoto (Note: following the Shin'yō Wakashū).

¶In the thirteenth year, the year Tsuchinoe-inu (1358), in spring, the Hizen no Kami, Governor of Hizen, Kikuchi Takemitsu, fought Isshiki Naouji and others and put them to flight (Note: following the Taiheiki). On the twenty-fourth day of the fifth month, the day Mizunoe-inu, there was a great earthquake in the capital (Note: following the Rekidai Kōki). On the first day of the sixth month, the day Tsuchinoe-tatsu, a solar eclipse had been predicted, but it could not be seen because of cloudy skies (Note: following the Entairyaku and the Tōji Chōja Bunin). In autumn, on the nineteenth day of the eighth month, the day Kinoto-tori, the Minister of the Left, Fujiwara-no-Saneyo, died (Note: on consideration, Fujiwara-no-Kinkata was appointed Minister of the Left in the seventh year of Shōhei, and the date on which Saneyo succeeded him in that post cannot now be established). On the fourth day of the ninth month, the day Kanoe-ne, there was a great earthquake in the capital (Note: following the Entairyaku). In winter, on the tenth day of the tenth month, the day Kinoto-i, the Assistant Captain of the Left Military Guards, Nitta Yoshioki, was lured out by Ashikaga Motouji and killed (Note: following the Taiheiki and the Ii Keizu).

¶In the fourteenth year, the year Tsuchinoto-i (1359), on the tenth day of the first month of spring, the day Kinoe-tatsu, there was thunder in the capital (Note: following the Entairyaku). In the third month, Kikuchi Takemitsu struck Hatakeyama Kunihisa and took the two castles of Mitsumata and Mutsukasa. When Shōni Yorihisa and the Aso Daigūji, Chief Priest of Aso, Uji Koretoki, turned against him, Takemitsu stormed and took their nine forts (Note: following the Taiheiki; the month and year follow the Imagawa-family, Mōri-family, Hōjō-family, Konshō-in, Saigen-in, and Nanto manuscripts; this work places the event in the eleventh month of the thirteenth year, which is probably mistaken). In summer, on the twenty-ninth day of the fourth month, the day Kanoto-u, Shin-Taikenmon-in died (Note: following Minamoto-no-Michifuyu's dedicatory prayer text and the Nyoin Shōden; the Taiheiki places this on the eighteenth day of the fourth month of the preceding year; none of the sources record the date of her funeral). The emperor entered three years of ryōan, mourning for a parent (Note: following the Shin'yō Wakashū). In the sixth month, the ground before the torii of the Kasuga Shrine sank in by about fifteen jō, and blood flowed from the left side of a Buddhist image at Kōfukuji temple. In autumn, on the twenty-third day of the seventh month, the day Kinoe-tora, the river at Makishima ran dry. On the twenty-fourth day, the day Kinoto-u, it returned to normal (Note: following the Entairyaku). This month, the Seisei Taishōgun, Imperial Prince Kaneyoshi, led Kikuchi Takemitsu and the others to strike down Shōni Yorihisa. On the sixteenth day of the eighth month, the day Hinoe-ne, a great battle was fought at Ōhara. The Gon Dainagon, Provisional Major Counsellor, Fujiwara-no-Chikahiro, and many other ministers, nobles, and officers and men besides, were killed in battle. Kikuchi Takemitsu fought with all his strength and at last won a great victory over the enemy. Yorihisa fled to hold out at Mount Hōman (Note: following the Taiheiki). In winter, in the eleventh month, Hatakeyama Kunikiyo led the troops of the Kantō into the capital (Note: the month follows the Entairyaku). In the twelfth month, Ashikaga Yoshiakira raised troops and advanced south together with Kunikiyo to invade. That winter, because rebels sought to press upon the temporary palace (Note: following the Entairyaku and the Taiheiki), the imperial carriage moved from Amano, entered Mount Kongō, and took up residence at Kanshinji temple (Note: following the Taiheiki; on consideration, the year and month in which the court had earlier moved from Anō to Amano cannot now be established in any of the sources).

¶In the fifteenth year, the year Kanoe-ne (1360), in spring, the first month, the Sama no Kami Kusunoki Masanori and the Izumi no Kami Wada Masatake built a castle at Akasaka; a certain Fukutsuka and a certain Kawabe built a castle at Hiraishi; a certain Makino and a certain Sakabe built a castle at Yao; the troops of Yamato and Kawachi built a castle at Ryūsenmine; and the Dainagon Fujiwara-no-Takatoshi held Saishomine in Kii. On the thirteenth day of the second month, the day Kanoto-hitsuji, Hatakeyama Kunikiyo advanced his forces to Tsutsuyama and encamped there, and the Tange, Matano, Konda, Sakawa, Mizuhaya, Yuasa, and Shiki houses all turned against the court and surrendered to Kunikiyo. In summer, on the fifth day of the fourth month, the day Kanoto-tori, Fujiwara-no-Takatoshi fought Hatakeyama Yoshifuka at Mount Ryūmon and won a great victory over him; the Kii Shugodai, Deputy Military Governor of Kii, the Ise no Kami, Governor of Ise, a certain Shionoya, was killed in battle. On the eleventh day, the day Hinoto-u, Takatoshi again fought Hatakeyama Yoshihiro and the others at Mount Ryūmon, but was defeated and withdrew to hold out at Asegawa Castle. On the twelfth day, the day Tsuchinoe-tatsu, the Sumiyoshi Shrine rumbled, and a camphor tree before the shrine snapped without apparent cause. The gods of Sumiyoshi and Hie were enshrined at the temporary palace, and rites were performed over a hundred days to exorcise this. The Seii Taishōgun, Imperial Prince Takayoshi, was commanded by edict to lead the Danjō Shōhitsu Akamatsu Ujinori and others to strike down Hatakeyama Kunikiyo (Note: this work gives no date for the entry beginning "an edict," but as it appears following the account of Takatoshi's defeat, it is placed here). On the twenty-fifth day, the day Kanoto-mi, Imperial Prince Takayoshi rose in revolt and burned the temporary palace at Anō and the residences of the court nobles. On the twenty-sixth day, the day Mizunoe-uma, the former Kanpaku, Fujiwara-no-Moromoto, was sent to subdue him. Takayoshi and Akamatsu Ujinori fled in defeat. On the last day of the intercalary month, the day Kinoto-u, Toki Naouji, Hosokawa Kiyouji, and Akamatsu Norizane took Ryūsen Castle, and Imagawa Noriuji, Sasaki Ujiyori, and Sasaki Nobuaki took Hiraishi Castle; the defending commander at Yao, a certain Makino, and the others abandoned the castle and fled. On the third day of the fifth month, the day Tsuchinoe-uma, Hatakeyama Kunikiyo and the others combined their forces to attack Akasaka Castle. On the eighth day, the day Mizunoto-i, Wada Masatake attacked the enemy camp by night, but with no advantage; Masatake and Kusunoki Masanori withdrew to hold Mount Kongō. In autumn, in the seventh month, Kusunoki Masanori attacked and took Mizuhaya Castle, held by a certain Sugihara. A certain Onji and a certain Niekawa attacked the monk-soldiers of Negoro at Kasugayama Castle and defeated them. Asegawa Jōbutsu, a certain Yamamoto, and a certain Tanabe Bettō struck Yukawa-no-Shōji at Kase-Kaburazaka and put him to flight. The Izu no Kami Yamana Tokiuji attacked Akamatsu Sadanori and took six of his castles. Niki Yoshinaga submitted to the court (Note: following the Taiheiki). In the ninth month, he made a progress to the Sumiyoshi Shrine (Note: following the Shin'yō Wakashū and the Rikashū). An edict commanded the Seitō Shōgun, Imperial Prince Muneyoshi, to lead troops and strike down the enemy, but because the roads of the northern provinces were frozen, this was not carried out (Note: following the Rikashū). The Gyōbu-kyō Ishidō Yorifusa and Niki Yoshizumi led the troops of Iga and Ise and struck Sasaki Ujiyori in Ōmi, but were defeated; Yoshizumi turned against the court and surrendered to Ashikaga Yoshiakira. This year, there was drought and famine, and an epidemic raged, so that those who starved to death on the roads followed one upon another (Note: following the Taiheiki).

¶In the sixteenth year, the year Kanoto-ushi (1361), on the last day of the third month of spring, the day Kanoe-tatsu, there was a fire in the capital (Note: following the Taiheiki). In summer, on the first day of the fourth month, the day Kanoto-mi, a solar eclipse had been predicted, but it could not be seen because of cloudy skies (Note: following the Go-Gumaiki). On the twentieth day of the sixth month, the day Tsuchinoto-i, there was a great earthquake (Note: following the Go-Gumaiki and the Kōnendai Ryakuki; the Taiheiki gives the eighteenth day). At Yuki-no-Minato in Awa the sea overflowed, and more than seventeen hundred houses of the inhabitants were swept away and submerged (Note: following the Taiheiki). On the twenty-first day, the day Kanoe-ne, there was a great earthquake in the capital (Note: following the Go-Gumaiki). On the twenty-second day, the day Kanoto-ushi, snow fell in the capital, and people and livestock froze to death (Note: following the Taiheiki). On the twenty-fourth day, the day Mizunoto-u, there was a great earthquake in the capital. On the twenty-fifth day, the day Kinoe-tatsu, there was again a tremor (Note: following the Go-Gumaiki). On the twenty-seventh day, the day Hinoe-uma, there was once more a great earthquake, and the golden hall of Shitennōji temple, together with many temple halls in Nara, collapsed (Note: following the Nyoze-in Nendaiki, the Rekidai Kōki, and the Kōnendai Ryakuki; the date follows the Go-Gumaiki). In autumn, on the third day of the seventh month, the day Mizunoe-ne, there was again a great earthquake. On the twenty-fourth day, the day Mizunoto-tori, there was again a great earthquake (Note: following the Go-Gumaiki). The sea overflowed at Naniwa-no-ura, and several hundred people died. At Naruto in Awa, the tide ran dry, and something like a great drum appeared upon the rocks. This month, the Izu no Kami Yamana Tokiuji reduced eight castles in Mimasaka, and Osa Nobutsuna and Abo Shinzen, men of Tajima, responded to Tokiuji's call, so that his military strength once more flourished (Note: following the Taiheiki). In the eighth month, on the first day, the day Tsuchinoto-u, there was an earthquake in the capital (Note: following the Go-Gumaiki). On the sixth day, the day Kinoe-saru, the Hizen no Kami Kikuchi Takemitsu fought the Matsura League at Mount Iimori, defeated it, and put it to flight. On the seventh day, the day Kinoto-tori, Takemitsu attacked the camp at Kashii, and Ōtomo Ujitoki and Shōni Yorihisa were routed (Note: following the Taiheiki). On the nineteenth day, the day Hinoto-tori, there was a great wind in the capital (Note: following the Rekidai Kōki; the Hōjō-family and Nanto manuscripts of the Taiheiki give the seventeenth day). On the twenty-fourth day, the day Mizunoe-tora, there was a great earthquake. The ground split open in Kii, and many temple halls throughout the provinces collapsed. The golden hall of Shitennōji was repaired (Note: on consideration, this work states that two dragons flew into Shitennōji and caused the golden hall to collapse, whereupon an edict ordered rites performed to exorcise this, but this account is not followed here; according to the Go-Gumaiki, moreover, the month and day on which the golden hall collapsed likewise differ). On the twenty-eighth day of the ninth month, the day Hinoe-ne, the Sama no Kami Kusunoki Masanori and the Izumi no Kami Wada Masatake struck Sasaki Hideaki and Sasaki Ujiaki in Settsu and beheaded them (Note: following the Taiheiki). In winter, in the tenth month, Hosokawa Kiyouji submitted to the court (Note: following the Go-Gumaiki and the Taiheiki; "winter, tenth month" follows the Go-Gumaiki). Hosokawa Ujiharu made the rounds of Awaji, and a certain Matsuyama held Kashita Castle in Settsu and responded to the forces of the court. On the fourth day of the eleventh month, the day Kanoto-i, Yamana Tokiuji took Kurakake Castle by assault (Note: following the Taiheiki). On the fourteenth day, the day Kanoto-tori, there was a great earthquake in the capital, and the Moon encroached upon Hisshuku (Note: following the Go-Gumaiki). The former Kanpaku Fujiwara-no-Moromoto, the Dainagon Fujiwara-no-Takatoshi, the Chūnagon Fujiwara-no-Kunimitsu, the Gyōbu-kyō Ishidō Yorifusa, the Sagami no Kami, Governor of Sagami, Hosokawa Kiyouji, Kusunoki Masanori, and Wada Masatake, among others, were commanded by edict to muster a great force and strike down Ashikaga Yoshiakira. On the third day of the twelfth month, the day Kanoe-tatsu, Hosokawa Ujiharu led the troops of Awaji and reached Sakai-no-ura. Earlier, Akamatsu Norizane had submitted to the court, and now he too led troops to join the forces of the court (Note: the name Fujiwara-no-Kunimitsu follows the Mōri-family and Tenshō manuscripts of the Taiheiki). On the eighth day, the day Kinoe-saru, the commanders all advanced together. Sasaki Takahide, Imagawa Sadayo, and the others, hearing rumors, fled (Note: following the Taiheiki). Ashikaga Yoshiakira escorted Go-Kōgon-in and fled in defeat to Ōmi (Note: following the Taiheiki, the Kōnendai Ryakuki, and the Tōji Chōja Bunin). The forces of the court entered the capital (Note: the Tōji Chōja Bunin gives the seventh day) and burned Yoshiakira's residence. The Ukyō no Daibu, Director of the Right Capital Office, Niki Yoshinaga, fought Toki Yoriyasu in Ise, and the Nakatsukasa Shōyū, Junior Assistant Minister of Central Affairs, Niki Yorinatsu, attacked Niki Yoshizumi in Tanba, but both were repulsed. Yamana Tokiuji withdrew his forces from Mimasaka and returned to Hōki. Akamatsu Norizane again turned against the court and returned to Harima, so that the roads east and west were blocked and the commanders could no longer come to the relief of the capital. Ashikaga Yoshiakira's forces once more grew strong. On the twenty-sixth day, the day Mizunoto-u, Yoshiakira reached Seta, and, as Akamatsu Ujinori sought to assail the temporary palace by the waterways, the former Kanpaku Moromoto led the commanders and withdrew his forces. On the twenty-ninth day, the day Hinoe-uma, Ashikaga Yoshiakira entered the capital (Note: following the Taiheiki).

¶In the seventeenth year, the year Mizunoe-tora (1362), on the thirteenth day of the first month of spring, the day Kanoe-saru, Tōdaiji temple burned down after being struck by lightning (Note: following the Kōfukuji Nendaiki). On the fourteenth day, the day Kanoto-tori, the Sagami no Kami Hosokawa Kiyouji reached Awa and made the rounds of Iyo, Tosa, and Sanuki. In the second month, a comet and a guest star appeared together. In summer, in the sixth month, the Izu no Kami Yamana Tokiuji divided his forces and made the rounds of Bizen and Bitchū, and Kō-no-Morohide fled in rout. Tokiuji had Tomita Naosada attack Bingo (Note: the Imagawa-family manuscript gives his name as Masasada). The Uhyōe no Suke Ashikaga Tadafuyu led troops to support him, and fought Miya Kanenobu at Miyauchi, but was put to flight. Naosada withdrew his forces and returned. The Uemon no Suke Yamana Moroyoshi confronted the troops of Tanba and Tajima, but, his provisions growing scarce, withdrew. The Harima no Kami Momonoi Naotsune made the rounds of Ecchū, but was put to flight. In autumn, on the twenty-fourth day of the seventh month, the day Hinoto-u, the Sagami no Kami Hosokawa Kiyouji fought Hosokawa Yoriyuki at Shiramine in Sanuki and was killed in defeat. Iyo, Tosa, Awa, and Sanuki were once again lost. On the seventeenth day of the eighth month, the day Kanoe-tora, the Sama no Kami Kusunoki Masanori and the Izumi no Kami Wada Masatake fought the troops of Sasaki Takauji at Kanzaki, defeated them, and put them to flight. On the sixteenth day of the ninth month, the day Tsuchinoto-ushi, Masanori, Masatake, and the Gyōbu-kyō Ishidō Yorifusa attacked Akamatsu Mitsunori's Tadabe Castle, set fire to Hyōgo, and withdrew. On the twenty-seventh day, the day Kanoe-ne, Kikuchi Takeyoshi fought Shiba Ujitsune at Chōjabaru, defeated him, and put him to flight, and at length advanced together with Kikuchi Takemitsu as far as Bungo, where they besieged Ōtomo Ujitoki and Shōni Yorihisa. This year, there was a great drought. In winter, in the eleventh month, the lake of Ōmi (Lake Biwa) ran dry (Note: on consideration, the Tenshō manuscript states that it fell by four or five shaku, while this work gives more than three jō; it cannot be determined which is correct). There was a great famine throughout the provinces (Note: following the Taiheiki).

¶In the eighteenth year, the year Mizunoto-u (1363), on the sixteenth day of the eighth month of autumn, the day Mizunoe-ne, the Hokke Hakkō, the Eight Lectures on the Lotus Sutra, was performed at Shōgon Jōdoji temple (Note: following the Shin'yō Wakashū). This year, Kōno Michinao submitted to the court (Note: following the Yoshōki).

¶In the nineteenth year, the year Kinoe-tatsu (1364), in spring, in the third month, he made a progress to the Sumiyoshi Shrine (Note: following the Shin'yō Wakashū). This spring, Ōuchi Hiroyo turned against the court with Suō and Nagato provinces and surrendered to Ashikaga Yoshimitsu, and the Hizen no Kami Kikuchi Takemitsu and a certain Kōtō fought Hiroyo in Bungo and defeated him. This year, Yamana Tokiuji, Yamana Moroyoshi, Niki Yoshinaga, Ishidō Yorifusa, and Uesugi Noriaki all turned against the court one after another (Note: following the Taiheiki; the names Yorifusa and Noriaki follow the Mōri-family and Tenshō manuscripts. Both of these state that Momonoi Naotsune likewise surrendered, but this is not followed here; the matter is discussed in his own biography).

¶In the twentieth year, the year Kinoto-mi (1365), on the twenty-sixth day of the first month of spring, the day Kinoto-tori, the former Kanpaku Moromoto died. This month, there were repeated fires in the capital, and smallpox raged (Note: following the Daijōin Nendaiki). In summer, on the twenty-fourth day of the fifth month, the day Mizunoe-uma, the completion of the golden hall of Shitennōji was celebrated (Note: following the Shin'yō Wakashū; the Kōdaiki places this in the preceding year). In autumn, on the seventeenth day of the eighth month, the day Mizunoto-u, there was a fire at the temporary palace. In winter, in the eleventh month, an epidemic raged (Note: following the Daijōin Nendaiki).

¶In the twenty-first year, the year Hinoe-uma (1366), on the seventeenth day of the second month of spring, the day Tsuchinoto-mi, the Hokke Hakkō was performed at Shōgon Jōdoji temple (Note: following the Shin'yō Wakashū). In summer, on the thirteenth day of the sixth month, the day Kinoe-ne, there was a great wind in the capital, and the Shingon-in was destroyed (Note: following the Kōdaiki and the Daijōin Nendaiki). This month, there was famine and pestilence in the capital, and the dead filled the streets (Note: following the Daijōin Nendaiki).

¶In the twenty-second year, the year Hinoto-hitsuji (1367), on the third day of the third month of spring, the day Tsuchinoto-u, the Kitano Shrine burned down (Note: following the Nyoze-in Nendaiki).

¶In the twenty-third year, the year Tsuchinoe-saru (1368), on the eleventh day of the third month of spring, the day Kanoto-mi, the emperor died at the Sumiyoshi Palace (Note: following the Kaei Sandaiki and the Kyūrei Zōjiki; on consideration, the year and month in which he moved to the Sumiyoshi Palace cannot now be established). He was forty-one years of age. He was buried at Kanshinji temple and styled Go-Murakami-in (Note: following the Kyūrei Zōjiki; this work does not record the place of burial, but according to the Byōryōki, his mausoleum at Kanshinji survives to this day).

¶From his youth the emperor governed the garrison provinces of the east, and in time succeeded to the throne. Though he remained settled in a corner of Yoshino, he nonetheless maintained, in the main, the ceremonies and rites of old, and never ceased to set his heart upon the recovery of the former capital. He himself endured hardship and danger, while his commanders and men exerted their utmost strength to hold a formidable enemy at bay; in his thirty years upon the throne, it may fairly be said that scarcely a day passed without war (Note: taken from the general sense of the various sources).