Emperor Chōkei, Emperor Go-Kameyama

Emperor Chōkei

¶Emperor Chōkei's personal name was Yutanari. He was the first son of Emperor Go-Murakami (Note: following the Teiō Keizu). His mother is not recorded.

¶In the third month of the twenty-third year of Shōhei (1368), Emperor Go-Murakami died, and the emperor ascended the throne at the temporary palace, angū (Note: none of the sources record any entry of abdication, jōi, or accession. But when Emperor Go-Murakami died, it was the emperor who succeeded to the imperial line, and the matter is accordingly recorded here. There are other instances that likewise ought to have been recorded but were not, because, once the Southern Court had removed to the country south of Yoshino, its records were never kept in full, leaving no evidence by which such matters can now be established). His younger brother, Imperial Prince Hironari (the later Emperor Go-Kameyama), was made Kōtaitei, Crown Prince's younger-brother heir (Note: the Shin'yō Wakashū and the Kakimon-in Shū record that in the eighth month of the twenty-third year of Shōhei the Crown Prince and the cloistered empress exchanged poems. A poem exchanged in the Shin'yō Wakashū between the Kanpaku of Fukuonji and Emperor Go-Kameyama likewise touches upon the Crown Prince's child. From this it is known that Imperial Prince Hironari was indeed the Crown Prince's younger-brother heir, and this account is accordingly followed here).

¶In summer, in the fourth month, a comet appeared in the northeast. On the eleventh day of the fifth month, the day Kanoe-tatsu, hail fell at Iwashimizu (Note: following the Kyūrei Zōjiki). In autumn, in the seventh month, Nitta Yoshimune and Wakiya Yoshiharu raised troops in Echigo and Kōzuke and fought Uesugi Norimasa and others, but could not prevail. Yoshimune was killed in battle, and Yoshiharu fled in defeat to Dewa (Note: following the Kitsuregawa Keizu).

¶In the twenty-fourth year of Shōhei, the year Tsuchinoto-tori (1369), in spring, on the second day of the first month, the day Tsuchinoe-inu, Kusunoki Masanori submitted to Ashikaga Yoshimitsu (Note: following the Kaei Sandaiki). This month, hail fell at Iwashimizu (Note: following the Kōnendai Ryakuki). In the third month, members of the Kusunoki clan plotted to kill Masanori (Note: following the Gogumaiki and the Kaei Sandaiki). In summer, on the twelfth day of the fourth month, the day Hinoe-ne, Momonoi Tadatsune took Matsukura Castle by storm (Note: following the Kaei Sandaiki). In autumn, on the twenty-eighth day of the seventh month, the day Kanoe-saru, there was a great earthquake in the capital (Note: following the Gofukashin'in Kanpakuki, the Gogumaiki, and the Tōji Chōja Bunin). On the second day of the ninth month, the day Kinoe-uma, there was a great wind (Note: following the Gogumaiki). On the last day, the day Kanoto-tori, Momonoi Tadatsune was defeated in battle and withdrew to hold Matsukura Castle. In winter, on the tenth day of the tenth month, the day Kanoto-hitsuji, Akamatsu Sokuyū and Akamatsu Mitsunori attacked the Danjō Shōhitsu, Junior Assistant of the Board of Censors, Akamatsu Ujinori, at Nakajima in Settsu. Ujinori's forces were defeated and fled to Shitennōji temple (Note: following the Kaei Sandaiki). On the twenty-second day of the eleventh month, the day Mizunoto-ushi, there was thunder (Note: following the Gofukashin'in Kanpakuki). This year, Kōno Michinao recovered Iyo province (Note: following the Yoshōki).

¶In the first year of Kentoku, the year Kanoe-inu (1370), in spring, in the first month, Wakiya Yoshiharu and others sent troops into Musashi and Kōzuke and fought Uesugi Tomofusa and others, but could not prevail, and fled in defeat to Shinano (Note: following the Kitsuregawa Keizu). On the sixteenth day of the third month, the day Kinoto-mi, Momonoi Tadakazu advanced his forces in Etchū and fought Shiba Yoshiyuki at Nagasawa, where he was killed in battle, and his remaining troops scattered in rout (Note: following the Kaei Sandaiki). In autumn, on the twentieth day of the eighth month, the day Hinoe-ne, a great wind struck the provinces east of Suruga, damaging the rice crop. In Sagami province there was a flood, and more than three hundred houses at Iijima were swept away and submerged (Note: following the Gogumaiki). In winter, on the eighth day of the tenth month, the day Mizunoto-i, a reddish vapor appeared in the north. On the seventh day of the eleventh month, the day Mizunoe-tatsu, there was a vapor of white and black, and a light again appeared in the north (Note: following the Kyūrei Zōjiki). This month, members of the Wada clan attacked Kusunoki Masanori's castle (Note: following the Kaei Sandaiki). This year, the era name was changed (Note: following the Wakan Gōun).

¶In the second year, the year Kanoto-i (1371), in spring, in the second month, the Higo no Kami, Governor of Higo, Kikuchi Takemitsu, raised troops in the name of the Seisei Taishōgun, Imperial Prince Kaneyoshi, seeking to recover Tsukushi. He fought Imagawa Sadayo (Ryōshun) in Chinzei (Note: following the Kaei Sandaiki and the Kikkawa Kaden, taken together). On the nineteenth day of the third month, the day Mizunoto-u, there was a great earthquake in the capital (Note: following the Kyūrei Zōjiki). On the twenty-third day, the day Hinoto-hitsuji, there was again a tremor (Note: following the Gogumaiki and the Gofukashin'in Kanpakuki). Go-Kōgon-in abdicated in favor of his son, Imperial Prince Ohito. This was Go-En'yū-in (Note: following the Gofukashin'in Kanpakuki, the Gogumaiki, the Kaei Sandaiki, the Rekidai Kōki, the Chinyōki, and the Kyūrei Zōjiki). In summer, on the sixth day of the fifth month, the day Tsuchinoe-uma, there was a great flood (Note: following the Gofukashin'in Kanpakuki). In autumn, in the seventh month, Momonoi Tadatsune fought in Etchū, but without advantage. In the eighth month, troops were sent out to strike Kusunoki Masanori. Hosokawa Yorimoto came to Masanori's aid (Note: following the Kaei Sandaiki). In the ninth month, a reddish vapor appeared (Note: following the Kyūrei Zōjiki). In winter, in the eleventh month, the forces of the court withdrew. More than a hundred members of the Yuasa clan were killed in battle (Note: following the Kaei Sandaiki).

¶In the first year of Bunchū, the year Mizunoe-ne (1372), in spring, on the twenty-sixth day of the first month, the day Kinoto-i, Keikoku, Mars, and Saisei, Jupiter, encroached upon one another (Note: following the Gogumaiki). In the second month, Kikuchi Takemasa fought Imagawa Sadayo in Higo and defeated him (Note: following the petition of Kikuchi Taketomo. This work records only "during the Bunchū era," without specifying month or year. Considering the Kaei Sandaiki, there were frequent disturbances in Kyūshū in the second month of this year, which probably refers to this same battle; it is accordingly placed here). In summer, on the twenty-eighth day of the fourth month, the day Kinoto-mi, an edict was sent to Amanosan Kongōbuji, directing prayers for the suppression of the disorder (Note: following the Amanosan Kongōji Monjo). On the twenty-seventh day of the sixth month, the day Mizunoto-u, there was an earthquake in the capital (Note: following the Gofukashin'in Kanpakuki). This year, the era name was changed (Note: following the Wakan Gōun).

¶In the second year, the year Mizunoto-ushi (1373), in spring, on the twenty-eighth day of the first month, the day Kanoto-hitsuji, there was thunder in the capital (Note: following the Gofukashin'in Kanpakuki). In the third month, Hosokawa Ujiharu attempted to attack the temporary palace (Note: following the Kaei Sandaiki). In summer, on the first day of the fourth month, the day Mizunoto-tori, there was a great earthquake (Note: following the Gofukashin'in Kanpakuki). On the eleventh day of the fifth month, the day Mizunoe-ne, hail fell in the capital (Note: following the Gofukashin'in Kanpakuki and the Wakan Gōun). That summer, an epidemic spread (Note: following the Daijōin Nendaiki). In autumn, on the second day of the eighth month, the day Kanoto-hitsuji, the emperor abdicated in favor of the Kōtaitei, left Yoshino (Note: following the Kaei Sandaiki), and removed to Tamagawa-no-miya (Note: following the Kohon Teiō Keizu and the Shomonzeki-fu). He was called Daijō Tennō, Retired Emperor.

¶In the second year of Genchū (1385), he wrote a ganmon, prayer text, in his own hand, and presented it in prayer at Mount Kōya (Note: following the Kōyasan Shozō Monjo).

¶In the following year, he still issued inzen, decrees of the retired sovereign, commanding the officers and soldiers of Kii province (Note: following the Yoshino Futami-shi Shozō Monjo). He took the tonsure, taking the Buddhist name Kakuri, and was called the Cloistered Emperor Chōkei-in (Note: following the Kōin Shōunroku). The place of his death is not known.

Emperor Go-Kameyama

¶Emperor Go-Kameyama's personal name was Hironari. He was the second son of Emperor Go-Murakami (Note: following the Kōin Shōunroku). His mother was Kakimon-in (Note: considering the Kakimon-in Shū and the Shin'yō Wakashū, Emperor Go-Kameyama exchanged several poems with Kakimon-in in which the affection between parent and child is evident — in one he wished her long life, invoking the image of the mountain of the immortals, and in another he likened Emperor Go-Murakami's death to the full moon losing half its light. From this there is no doubt that Kakimon-in was his mother).

¶In his childhood, while watching a hawking party at the Natsumi River, he noticed a great boulder with a pine tree growing upon it. Turning to an attendant, he said, "Bring that back to the palace and have it presented to me." But when he asked after it once he had returned to the palace, and it had not been brought, he would not stop weeping. The attendant thereupon took a small stone, fastened a pine branch to it, and presented it to him with great show of effort, as though it were very heavy. The young prince said, "This is not the one." The attendant answered with a fabrication: "When I tried just now to carry that boulder, the road proved too narrow to pass. A shugenja, mountain ascetic, happening by, cast a spell upon it, and the boulder at once grew small. When I asked him to restore it to its former size, he told me that the road ahead was narrower still, and that it could never be brought through at its original size; I agreed with him, and so I have brought it as it is." The prince's expression softened, and he said, "What a pity — I wish I had called that ascetic back once more. This story of his shrinking you by a spell is most likely an invention." All who heard of this marveled at his perceptiveness, and said to one another that he would surely achieve great virtue in time (Note: following the Yoshino Shūi).

¶When Emperor Chōkei ascended the throne, he was made Kōtaitei, Crown Prince's younger-brother heir (Note: following the Kakimon-in Shū and the Shin'yō Wakashū).

¶In the second year of Bunchū, the year Mizunoto-ushi (1373), on the second day of the eighth month, the day Kanoto-hitsuji, the Kōtaitei received the abdicated throne at the temporary palace (Note: following the Kaei Sandaiki). Emperor Chōkei was honored as Daijō Tennō, Retired Emperor (Note: following the ganmon of Emperor Chōkei preserved at Mount Kōya). His younger brother, the Dazai no Sochi, Governor-General of the Dazaifu, Imperial Prince Yasunari, was made Kōtaitei (Note: the colophon to the Senshu Waka, Thousand Poems, of Imperial Prince Munenaga states that in the second year of Tenju the emperor's Crown Prince composed a thousand poems, and the Teiō Keizu gives Yasunari as that Crown Prince; this is accordingly followed here). On the tenth day, the day Tsuchinoto-u, the Naidaijin, Inner Minister, Fujiwara-no-Takatoshi, who was stationed at Amano, attacked Hosokawa Ujiharu's camp by night, but could not prevail, and was killed in battle (Note: following the Kaei Sandaiki; the office of Naidaijin follows the Shin'yō Wakashū). On the second day of the ninth month, the day Kanoe-ne, a great wind arose and houses collapsed (Note: following the Gofukashin'in Kanpakuki, the Rekidai Kōki, and the Kōnendai Ryakuki; the Kaei Sandaiki gives the second day of the tenth month). In winter, on the fifth day of the tenth month, the day Mizunoto-tori, the Kamo-Nara Shrine burned down (Note: following the Daijōin Nendaiki). On the sixth day, the day Kinoe-inu, the Mishima Shrine in Izu burned down (Note: following the Kaei Sandaiki). On the twenty-second day of the intercalary month, the day Tsuchinoto-hitsuji, there was an earthquake in the capital (Note: following the Gofukashin'in Kanpakuki and the Daijōin Nendaiki). On the morning of the day Hinoto-u in the eleventh month, it was the winter solstice (Note: following the Gofukashin'in Kanpakuki, the Gogumaiki, and the Kōnendai Ryakuki). On the third day, the day Kanoe-ne, the Kamo Jingūji burned (Note: following the Daijōin Nendaiki). This year, Ōdate Ujikiyo fought Niki Yoshinaga at Suzuka and defeated him, killing Niki Yoshinobu (Note: following the Sekioka-ke Shimatsu).

¶In the third year, the year Kinoe-tora (1374), in spring, on the twenty-fifth day of the first month, the day Kanoto-u, a comet appeared (Note: following the Daijōin Nendaiki; the Gofukashin'in Kanpakuki gives the last day of the month). This month, smallpox spread (Note: following the Kōnendai Ryakuki). In summer, on the twenty-sixth day of the fifth month, the day Kanoto-u, Kikuchi Takemasa died (Note: following the Kaei Sandaiki).

¶In the first year of Tenju, the year Kinoto-u (1375), in spring, on the ninth day of the second month, the day Tsuchinoto-i, Enryakuji burned down (Note: following the Rekidai Kōki). In summer, on the twenty-first day of the sixth month, the day Kanoe-inu, Taihaku, Venus, and Saisei, Jupiter, encroached upon one another. On the twenty-sixth day, the day Kinoto-u, the statue of Daishokukan, Fujiwara-no-Kamatari, burst apart. In autumn, on the first day of the seventh month, the day Tsuchinoto-hitsuji, there was a solar eclipse (Note: following the Gofukashin'in Kanpakuki). In the eighth month, the defending commander of Dokyū Castle in Izumi, the Kunai Shōyū, Junior Assistant of the Ministry of the Imperial Household, Hashimoto Masatada, submitted to Ashikaga Yoshimitsu and attacked Kii. On the twenty-fifth day of the ninth month, the day Mizunoe-uma, Hashimoto Masatada reduced the several castles of Kii (Note: following the Kaei Sandaiki). This year, an utaawase, poetry contest, was held at the temporary palace (Note: following the Shin'yō Wakashū). The era name was changed (Note: following the Wakan Gōun).

¶In the second year, the year Hinoe-tatsu (1376), in spring, on the eleventh day of the third month, the day Kinoto-ushi, he made a progress to Nyoirinji temple and held a Buddhist service there, praying for the repose of Emperor Go-Murakami (Note: following the Shin'yō Wakashū and the Kakimon-in Shū). In summer, on the twenty-third day of the sixth month, the day Hinoe-uma, a comet appeared in the northeast (Note: following the Kaei Sandaiki and the Kyūrei Zōjiki). This year, Kikuchi Taketomo fought Imagawa Sadayo in Chinzei (Note: following the Kikkawa Kaden and the Aso-sha Monjo).

¶In the third year, the year Hinoto-mi (1377) (Note: the source text gives a corrupt character here for the branch; it is corrected to Hinoto-mi by calculation from the sexagenary cycle), in spring, on the eighteenth day of the second month, the day Hinoe-tora, the Goryō Shrine burned down (Note: following the Gogumaiki Bekki). In autumn, on the seventh day of the seventh month, the day Mizunoto-hitsuji, a banquet was held for the Tanabata festival (Note: following the Shin'yō Wakashū and the Kakimon-in Shū). On the sixth day of the eighth month, the day Mizunoe-ne, there was a fire in the capital (Note: following the Gogumaiki Bekki and the Kaei Sandaiki). On the twelfth day, the day Tsuchinoe-uma, the Seisei Taishōgun, Imperial Prince Kaneyoshi, fought Ōuchi Yoshihiro in Chinzei and was defeated. More than a hundred members of the Kikuchi clan were killed in battle. On the twentieth day, the day Hinoe-tora, a great wind blew and houses collapsed (Note: following the Gogumaiki Bekki).

¶In the fourth year, the year Tsuchinoe-uma (1378), in autumn, in the seventh month, an epidemic spread. On the thirteenth day of the eighth month, the day Mizunoto-ushi, a great wind blew and trees were broken (Note: following the Gogumaiki). In the ninth month, the Seisei Taishōgun, Imperial Prince Kaneyoshi, together with Kikuchi Taketomo and the Sakon'e Shōgen, Lieutenant of the Left Palace Guards, Kiyohara-no-Chikayoshi, fought Imagawa Sadayo at Takumabaru and defeated him (Note: following the petition of Kikuchi Taketomo and the petition of Kiyohara Kannon, taken together). In winter, on the second day of the eleventh month, the day Kanoto-hitsuji, the Minbu Taifu, Senior Assistant Minister of Popular Affairs, Hashimoto Masataka, raised troops in Kii (Note: the name Masataka follows the Amano Kongōji Monjo) and struck Hosokawa Narihide. On the seventh day, the day Hinoe-ne, Ashikaga Yoshimitsu sent officers and soldiers to relieve Narihide (Note: following the Kaei Sandaiki). Ōdate Ujikiyo raised troops in answer to Masataka's call, fought Akamatsu Yoshinori, and defeated him (Note: following the Sekioka-ke Shimatsu; this work gives no date). On the seventeenth day, the day Hinoe-inu, the forces of the court were defeated and withdrew (Note: following the Kaei Sandaiki).

¶In the fifth year, the year Tsuchinoto-hitsuji (1379) (Note: the source text gives a corrupt character here for the stem; it is corrected to Tsuchinoto-hitsuji by calculation from the sexagenary cycle), in spring, on the twenty-second day of the first month, the day Kanoe-tora, Yamana Yoshimasa, Yamana Ujikiyo, and Yamana Tokiyoshi attacked Tsuchimaru Castle. On the twenty-third day, the day Kanoto-u, the castle fell. On the ninth day of the second month, the day Hinoto-hitsuji, Yoshimasa and the others entered Kii and reduced Fujinami Castle. On the eleventh day, the day Tsuchinoto-tori, they reduced Ishigaki Castle as well (Note: following the Kaei Sandaiki). On the twenty-first day of the third month, the day Tsuchinoe-ne, Hioki-no-shō in Awa was donated to Kumano Shingū, praying for the suppression of the disorder (Note: following the Kumano-san Shingū Monjo). In winter, on the sixth day of the eleventh month, the day Tsuchinoto-i, Kōno Michinao fought Hosokawa Yoriyuki in Iyo and was killed in defeat (Note: following the Yoshōki). On the fourth day of the twelfth month, the day Hinoto-u, the Saiin, Western Cloister, of Tōji temple burned down (Note: following the Gofukashin'in Kanpakuki, the Tōji Chōja Bunin, and the Kōnendai Ryakuki). This year, a comet appeared, and there was great famine throughout the realm (Note: following the Wakan Gōun).

¶In the sixth year, the year Kanoe-saru (1380), in summer, on the fifth day of the fifth month, the day Hinoe-saru, Oyama Yoshimasa, a man of Shimotsuke, raised troops (Note: following the Kamakura Ōzōshi). On the sixteenth day, the day Hinoto-hitsuji, Yoshimasa fought Utsunomiya Mototsuna at Mohara and killed him (Note: following the Kaei Sandaiki and the Kamakura Ōzōshi). On the thirteenth day of the sixth month, the day Mizunoe-saru, the forces of the court fought a certain Toki and a certain Hara in Ise and defeated them. In autumn, on the seventeenth day of the seventh month, the day Kinoto-mi, the Minbu Taifu Hashimoto Masataka attacked Yamana Ujikiyo, but could not prevail, and was killed in battle. On the twenty-third day of the eighth month, the day Kanoto-mi, the Kōya Mandokoro (Note: his personal name is missing from the text) and a certain Suda fought Yamana Ujikiyo in Kii, but were defeated and fled. On the seventh day of the ninth month, the day Kinoe-uma, Yamana Ujikiyo reduced Onji Castle (Note: following the Kaei Sandaiki. On consideration, the Shin'yō Wakashū states that in the winter of this year the emperor was at the temporary palace of Sakiyama, but the circumstances are not clear, and no other source offers any basis for establishing the matter).

¶In the first year of Kōwa, the year Kanoto-tori (1381), in winter, on the first day of the tenth month, the day Mizunoe-ne, there was a solar eclipse (Note: following the Gogumaiki). On the third day of the twelfth month, the day Kinoe-tora (Note: the source text gives a corrupt character here for "day"; it is corrected accordingly), the Nakatsukasa-kyō, Minister of Central Affairs, Imperial Prince Munenaga, presented the Shin'yō Wakashū (Note: following the preface to the Shin'yō Wakashū). This year, the era name was changed (Note: following the Wakan Gōun).

¶In the second year, the year Mizunoe-inu (1382), in spring, on the twenty-fourth day of the first month, the day Kinoe-tatsu — earlier, Kusunoki Masanori had submitted to the north, but by this time he fought Yamana Ujikiyo at Hirao in Kawachi, and was defeated (Note: following the Kawachi Tsūhōji Monjo, the Mitoya Monjo, and the Wakan Gōun Reki, taken together). On the twenty-third day of the intercalary month, the day Mizunoto-tori, the Kasuga Shrine burned down (Note: following the Kōnendai Ryakuki and the Wakan Gōfu). In summer, on the eleventh day of the fourth month, the day Kanoe-tora, Go-En'yū-in abdicated in favor of the Crown Prince, Motohito. This was Emperor Go-Komatsu (Note: following the Rekidai Kōki, the Kōin Shōunroku, and the Kōnendai Ryakuki). On the thirteenth day, the day Mizunoe-tatsu, Oyama Yoshimasa fought the forces of Ashikaga Ujimitsu and was killed in defeat (Note: following the Kamakura Ōzōshi). This year, Kikuchi Taketomo struck down members of his own clan who had risen in revolt, at Moriyama, and suppressed them (Note: following the petition of Kikuchi Taketomo).

¶In the third year, the year Mizunoto-i (1383), in summer, on the nineteenth day of the fourth month, the day Mizunoe-tatsu, there was an earthquake in the capital. On the twenty-fourth day, the day Hinoto-tori, there was a great earthquake. On the twenty-sixth day, the day Tsuchinoto-i (Note: the source text gives a corrupt character here for the stem; it is corrected by calculation from the sexagenary cycle), there was again a tremor. On the twenty-eighth day, the day Kanoto-ushi, there was again a great earthquake (Note: following the Gogumaiki).

¶In the first year of Genchū, the year Kinoe-ne (1384), the era name was changed (Note: following the Wakan Gōun).

¶In the third year, the year Hinoe-tora (1386), in summer, in the sixth month, Oyama Wakainumaru and the Tamura Shōji, Tamura Noriyoshi, raised troops and each held out in his own castle. In autumn, in the seventh month, Oyama Wakainumaru and Tamura Noriyoshi fought Ashikaga Ujimitsu at Koga in Shimōsa and were killed in defeat (Note: following the Kitsuregawa Keizu). On the second day of the ninth month, the day Kinoto-u, Akamatsu Ujinori fought the forces of Ashikaga Yoshimitsu at Shimizu in Harima and was defeated. Ujinori, together with his sons Ujiharu, Ienori, Sukeharu, and Suenori, took their own lives (Note: following the Akamatsu Keizu).

¶In the fourth year, the year Hinoto-u (1387), in spring, in the third month, Oda Gorō raised troops in Hitachi and held Nantai Castle at Shishido (Note: following the Kitsuregawa Keizu). This year, an epidemic spread (Note: following the Wakan Gōun).

¶In the fifth year, the year Tsuchinoe-tatsu (1388), in summer, in the fifth month, Uesugi Tomomune attacked and reduced Nantai Castle, and Oda Gorō was killed in battle (Note: following the Kitsuregawa Keizu).

¶In the seventh year, the year Kanoe-uma (1390), in autumn, in the seventh month, heavy rain fell continuously for a full month without stopping. This year, an epidemic spread (Note: following the Wakan Gōun).

¶In the eighth year, the year Kanoto-hitsuji (1391), in winter, on the sixteenth day of the tenth month, the day Tsuchinoto-mi, there was a great earthquake in the capital (Note: following the Meitokuki). This year, there was a great famine, and an epidemic spread (Note: following the Jōrakuki and the Wakan Gōfu, taken together).

¶In the ninth year, the year Mizunoe-saru (1392), in winter, on the second day of the intercalary tenth month, the day Tsuchinoto-u — earlier, Ashikaga Yoshimitsu had been negotiating terms of peace, seeking to receive the emperor into the capital. By this time the emperor set out from the temporary palace mounted in a yōyo, a palanquin, with the Kanpaku and all his officials in attendance, and most of the assembled vassals wearing military dress (Note: following the Zoku Jinnō Shōtōki. On consideration, the Kōnendai Ryakuki states that he rode in a hōren, a phoenix palanquin, instead, but which account is correct cannot now be determined). The imperial carriage reached Daikakuji temple (Note: following the Zoku Jinnō Shōtōki and the Rekidai Kōki). On the fifth day, the day Mizunoe-uma, the emperor transmitted the three sacred regalia to Emperor Go-Komatsu (Note: following the Zoku Jinnō Shōtōki, the Rekidai Kōki, the Kōnendai Ryakuki, and the Tōji Chōja Bunin).

¶In the second month of the first year of Ōei (1394), he was presented with the honorific title and made Daijō Tennō, Retired Emperor (Note: following the Kōnendai Ryakuki). He took the tonsure and received the Buddhist name Kongōshin (Note: following the Kohon Teiō Keizu).

¶In the thirty-first year (1424), on the twelfth day of the fourth month, the day Hinoto-mi (Note: the source text gives a corrupt character here for the branch; it is corrected by calculation from the sexagenary cycle), the Cloistered Emperor died. He was called the Cloistered Emperor Go-Kameyama-in (Note: following the Wakan Gōun; the place of his burial cannot now be established).

¶In the ninth month of the third year of Kakitsu (1443), the former Gon Dainagon, Provisional Major Counsellor, Fujiwara-no-Arimitsu, and others raised troops, forced their way into the palace, and seized the shinji, sacred jewel, and the sacred sword. They set up a certain Kinzōsu, a prince and a monk of Manjuji temple, and held out with him at Enryakuji. Kinzōsu and Arimitsu were defeated and killed, and the sacred sword was abandoned near Kiyomizudera temple (Note: following the Tenchi Kongen Rekidaizu, the Zoku Jinnō Shōtōki, and the Goshōin Monjo, taken together). The remaining loyalists of Yoshino took up the sacred jewel, set up two princes, and held out at Yoshino. The monk En'in of Enman'in temple likewise returned to lay life, changed his name to Yoshiari (Note: the name Yoshiari follows the entry for the eighth day of the eighth month of the ninth year of Eikyō in the Sakkaiki), and raised troops in Kii.

¶In the twelfth month of the first year of Chōroku (1457), a retainer of the Akamatsu house is said to have feigned surrender to Yoshino, then killed the two princes, seized the sacred jewel, and carried it back to the capital (Note: following the Shomonzeki-fu, the Kōzuki-ki, the Akamatsu Ryakufu, and the Ōnin Gaiki, taken together. On consideration, the names and the exact relationship of the two princes can no longer now be established. At Kōhōzan Fukugenji temple in Yoshino there survives an old memorial tablet inscribed: "The First Prince, Jiten Shinnō; the Second Prince, Chūgi Daizenjōmon." A document preserved by the Irokawa family of Kii reads: "Irokawa-gō is the former domain of the late emperor; its ryūson, imperial scion, has already made his progress to the temporary palace at Ōkōchi, and will shortly proceed beneath the brocade standard. The sixth day of the eighth month, the year Kinoto-i. Chūgi." A document preserved at Nachisan Jippōin likewise reads: "The eighteenth day of the seventh month, the year Kinoto-i. Chūgi." This Chūgi is probably the Second Prince spoken of above. But the year Kinoto-i corresponds to the first year of Kōshō (1455), and since the change of era had not yet reached Yoshino, it may be that the document was recorded instead under the era name reckoned from the year Kinoe-ne. In any case the matter is not clear. The entry for Masamichi in the Kusunoki-shi Keizu likewise states: "The Southern Sovereign of that time was the fourth-generation grandson of Emperor Go-Daigo. After the Akamatsu rose in revolt and seized the regalia, the imperial residence at Totsukawa was overrun, and he died at Kōfukuji temple, above Kitayama-Kōya." Whether the Southern Sovereign spoken of here refers to the First Prince is uncertain. This genealogy has many gaps and omissions, and is not sufficient to serve as firm evidence. It is for now appended here, to await verification at a later date).