Emperor Go-Komatsu

¶Emperor Go-Komatsu's personal name was Motohito.

Emperor Kōgon

¶Emperor Kōgon, the emperor's great-grandfather, had the personal name Kazuhito. He was the first son of Emperor Go-Fushimi. His mother was Kōgimon-in (Note: the foregoing follows the Kōin Shōunroku, the Zoku Jinnō Shōtōki, and the Kōnendai Ryakuki).

¶On the ninth day of the seventh month of the second year of Shōwa (1313), the day Kinoto-hitsuji, he was adopted as a son by Emperor Hanazono. In the eighth month he was made an imperial prince (Note: the Rekidai Kōki gives this as the ninth month).

¶When Emperor Go-Daigo ascended the throne, Kōgon was installed as Crown Prince, in the seventh month of the first year of Karyaku (1326).

¶On the twenty-eighth day of the twelfth month of the first year of Gentoku (1329), the day Kanoe-inu, he underwent his coming-of-age ceremony, genpuku (Note: following the Kōin Shōunroku and the Kōnendai Ryakuki).

¶In the autumn, eighth month, of the first year of Genkō (1331), Emperor Go-Daigo took up the three sacred regalia and made a progress to Mount Kasagi (Note: following the Taiheiki). On the twentieth day of the ninth month, the day Mizunoto-mi, the Crown Prince received the abdicated throne, senso, at Tsuchimikado-dono by edict of the Retired Emperor Hanazono (Note: following the Kōin Shōunroku and the Kōnendai Ryakuki. On consideration, the Taiheiki places the senso on the thirteenth day of the tenth month, but this is mistaken; the present work, together with the Rekidai Kōki and the Kugyō Bunin, is followed instead. The source text here names the Crown Prince as Motohito, but since Motohito is elsewhere given as the personal name of Emperor Go-Komatsu, this is corrected to Kazuhito). The ceremony followed the precedent of Emperor Go-Toba (Note: following the Kōnendai Ryakuki and the Kōdai Ryakki). For this reason the era name Gentoku continued in use (Note: following the Genkō Nikki Uragaki and the Shōgun Shikken Shidai). The Kanpaku, Chancellor, Fuyunori; the Sadaijin, Minister of the Left, Fujiwara-no-Mototsugu; the Udaijin, Minister of the Right, Minamoto-no-Nagamichi; the Naidaijin, Inner Minister, Fujiwara-no-Suehira; the Gon Dainagon, Provisional Major Counsellor, and concurrently Captain of the Left Palace Guards, Fujiwara-no-Tsunemichi; and the Gon Dainagon, Provisional Major Counsellor, and concurrently Captain of the Right Palace Guards, Fujiwara-no-Michinori, all remained in their posts (Note: following the Kugyō Bunin and the Rekidai Kōki). In winter, in the tenth month, Emperor Go-Daigo returned from Mount Kasagi (Note: following the Rekidai Kōki, the Kōnendai Ryakuki, the Kōin Shōunroku, and the surviving fragments of the Kōmyōji library collection). On the sixth day, the day Tsuchinoe-saru, the emperor received the sacred sword, jewel, and mirror from Emperor Go-Daigo (Note: following the Taiheiki; the date follows the Kenji Togyoki of the first year of Genkō, the Kōnendai Ryakuki, and the Kōin Shōunroku). On the twenty-fifth day, the day Hinoto-u, Yasuhito, son of the late Crown Prince Kuninaga, was made an imperial prince (Note: following the Rekidai Kōki). On this day, Imperial Princess Baishi was given the title Sūmeimon-in (Note: following the Nyoin Shōden and the Rekidai Kōki). On the eighth day of the eleventh month, the day Tsuchinoto-u, Imperial Prince Yasuhito was installed as Crown Prince (Note: following the Rekidai Kōki, the Kōnendai Ryakuki, and the Masukagami; the Genkō Nikki Uragaki gives the seventh day for the eighth, which is probably an error). The Udaijin Minamoto-no-Nagamichi was made Tōgū no Fu, Tutor to the Crown Prince (Note: following the Kugyō Bunin and the Masukagami).

¶On the seventh day of the third month of the first year of Shōkyō (1332), the day Hinoe-ne, Emperor Go-Daigo was exiled to the island of Oki (Note: following the Masukagami, the Taiheiki, and the Baishōron). On the twenty-second day, the day Kanoto-u, the emperor was enthroned at the Daijōkan-chō, the Hall of the Council of State. He was twenty years of age at the time (Note: following the Rekidai Kōki and the Kōnendai Ryakuki; the Taiheiki gives nineteen, but this is here corrected from this work's own statement that he was born in the seventh month of the second year of Shōwa). On the twenty-eighth day of the fourth month, the day Hinoto-u, the era name was changed (Note: following the Kugyō Bunin, the Masukagami, the Genpi Betsuroku, and the Tenshō manuscript of the Taiheiki). On the twentieth day of the fifth month, the day Tsuchinoe-ne, the empress consort was given the title of chūgū and called Reiseimon-in (Note: following the Nyoin Shōden and the Rekidai Kōki). On the thirteenth day of the seventh month, the day Kanoto-mi, the Udaijin and concurrently Tōgū no Fu, Minamoto-no-Nagamichi, resigned (Note: following the Kugyō Bunin). On the fourteenth day of the tenth month, the day Kanoe-inu, the Naidaijin Fujiwara-no-Suehira became Udaijin, and the Dainagon Fujiwara-no-Michiaki became Naidaijin (Note: following the Kugyō Bunin and the Rekidai Kōki). On the twenty-eighth day, the day Kinoe-ne, the purification rite, gokei, was performed (Note: following the Rekidai Kōki, the Kōin Shōunroku, and the Taiheiki). On the eighth day of the eleventh month, the day Kinoe-inu, the former Udaijin Fujiwara-no-Kanesue became Daijō Daijin, Chancellor of the Realm (Note: following the Kugyō Bunin and the Rekidai Kōki). On the thirteenth day, the day Tsuchinoto-u, the Daijōe, the Great Thanksgiving rite, was performed (Note: following the Rekidai Kōki, the Kōnendai Ryakuki, the Kōdai Ryakki, the Masukagami, and the Taiheiki).

¶In the second year, on the twenty-eighth day of the intercalary second month, the day Kanoto-u, Emperor Go-Daigo made a progress to Mount Senjō in Hōki (Note: following an imperial letter bestowed on Nawa Nagatoshi by Emperor Go-Daigo). On the twelfth day of the third month, the day Kinoto-mi, Akamatsu Norimura attacked Rokuhara; the defending commanders Hōjō Tokimasu and Hōjō Nakatoki resisted him, but without success. The emperor, the Crown Prince, and the two retired emperors Go-Fushimi and Hanazono made a progress to Rokuhara, and the emperor himself went to encourage the troops. In the fifth month the forces of Rokuhara fought Ashikaga Takauji and others and were defeated. On the seventh day, the day Kinoto-i, Hōjō Tokimasu and Hōjō Nakatoki, bearing the emperor, the two retired emperors, and the Crown Prince, together with the sacred sword and jewel and the treasures handed down through successive reigns, set out eastward (Note: following the Taiheiki). The court ladies bore the sacred mirror and placed it at the Kitayama residence of the Gon Dainagon Fujiwara-no-Kinmune (Note: following the Kōnendai Ryakuki; the Taiheiki states that the emperor went east together with all three of the sacred regalia, but this is mistaken). Hōjō Tokimasu was shot dead by an enemy arrow, and a stray arrow also struck the emperor's left elbow. On the ninth day, the day Kanoto-ushi, when the party reached Banba in Ōmi, Imperial Prince Moriyoshi sent out troops to intercept the procession, and Hōjō Nakatoki and all the soldiers in his following took their own lives. The emperor, together with the two retired emperors and the Crown Prince, entered Taihei Gokokuji temple, and there handed over the sacred sword and jewel and the several treasures to Imperial Prince Moriyoshi (Note: compiled from the Kōnendai Ryakki, the Kōdai Ryakki, the Jinnō Shōtōki, the Kōin Shōunroku, the Taiheiki, and the Baishōron). On the twenty-second day, the day Kinoe-tora, Hōjō Takatoki fought Nitta Yoshisada at Kamakura and was killed in defeat (Note: following the Masukagami, the Taiheiki, and the Baishōron). On the twenty-fifth day, the day Hinoto-mi, the emperor abdicated (Note: following the Rekidai Kōki). On the twenty-eighth day, the day Kanoe-saru, the emperor, together with the two retired emperors and the Crown Prince, returned from Taiheiji temple to the capital, where troops were stationed to guard them (Note: following the Kōnendai Ryakuki). The Retired Emperor Go-Fushimi urged the emperor to take the tonsure, but the emperor did not presume to follow this command (Note: following the Masukagami). On the fifth day of the sixth month, the day Hinoto-u, Emperor Go-Daigo returned to the palace in the capital (Note: following the Kōin Shōunroku and the Kugyō Bunin). On the tenth day of the twelfth month, the day Kanoe-uma, he was honored with the title of Daijō Tennō, Retired Emperor (Note: following the Rekidai Kōki and the Kōin Shōunroku).

¶On the sixth day of the fourth month of the first year of Engen (1336), the day Mizunoe-uma, the Retired Emperor Go-Fushimi died (Note: following the Kōin Shōunroku, the Teiō Hennenki, and the Jinnō Shōtōki). Earlier, Ashikaga Takauji had risen in rebellion, and his forces, defeated, had fled west. This month, Takauji led troops east from Tsukushi. On the twenty-seventh day, the day Mizunoe-saru, Emperor Go-Daigo made a progress to Enryakuji, and sent the Kebiishi, Officer of the Imperial Police, Ōta Zenshoku, to receive the emperor, the Cloistered Retired Emperor Hanazono, and Imperial Prince Toyohito. The emperor reached Kitashirakawa but fell ill, and his carriage halted there for some time. When Ashikaga Takauji's troops arrived to receive them, the emperor, together with the Cloistered Retired Emperor and Imperial Prince Toyohito, returned to the Rokujō Palace (Note: following the Taiheiki). On the third day of the sixth month, the day Hinoto-ushi, he made a progress to Otokoyama. On the fourteenth day, the day Tsuchinoe-ne, he made a progress to Ashikaga Takauji's encampment at Tōji temple (Note: following the Kōnendai Ryakuki and various manuscripts of the Taiheiki; the current printed Taiheiki states that the emperor of his own accord moved his residence to Tōji, but this is mistaken). In the eighth month, the Crown Prince's younger brother, Imperial Prince Toyohito, received the abdicated throne, senso, and the emperor took overall charge of the business of state, moving his residence to Jimyōin (Note: compiled from the Jinnō Shōtōki, the Kōin Shōunroku, the Rekidai Kōki, the Kōnendai Ryakuki, and the Tenshō manuscript of the Taiheiki; the current printed Taiheiki states that Emperor Kōgon returned to the throne a second time, chōso, but this is mistaken). When the Retired Emperor Sukō ascended the throne, Imperial Prince Toyohito was known as the Retired Emperor Kōmyō, and called Shin'in, the New Retired Emperor (Note: following the Kōdaiki and the Zoku Jinnō Shōtōki). The emperor thereupon took the title Ichi no In, the Senior Retired Emperor, and continued to oversee the business of government as before (Note: following the Mōri-family, Imagawa-family, and Tenshō manuscripts of the Taiheiki).

¶In the eighth month of the seventh year of Shōhei (1352), the Retired Emperor, while at Anō, took the tonsure (Note: following the Kugyō Bunin and the Entairyaku). His Buddhist name was Shōkōchi. In the eleventh year (1356), he dropped the character "Shō" and was known simply as Kōchi. That year he went to the temporary palace at Amano. The following year (1357) he returned to the capital and took up residence at the Fushimi Palace (Note: following the Kōin Shōunroku and the Kōnendai Ryakuki). Under the monk Sōseki, Musō Soseki, he penetrated the deeper mysteries of Zen, and from this time grew ever more weary of worldly affairs. He no longer wished to have dealings with others, and withdrew to live at the foot of Mount Ogura. Before long he returned again to Fushimi, and lived at the Kōgon-in palace. Because this lay so near the capital, visits of condolence from his retainers never ceased. He therefore dismissed all his attendants, keeping by him only the monk Junkaku (Note: "Jun" is given as "Dō" in one text), and wandered the four directions like a cloud or a stream of water, so that people of the time at first did not recognize him. He made his way through the lands that had once been battlefields, and was moved to deep repentance for the sins visited upon all living things, feeling shame and regret at many a scene he passed. When he came to the Kii River, he found a perilous bridge not easily crossed, and hesitated there for some time. Several armed men then came up from behind, reviled him, and pushed him into the water. Junkaku threw himself in and pulled him out, but his robes were soaked through and his limbs were injured. Junkaku wiped away his tears, helped him into a roadside hut, and had him change his clothes. From there they went on to Mount Kōya. There two monks caught up with them, knelt, begged forgiveness, and asked to be allowed to serve him in atonement for their fault — for these were the very men who had pushed him into the water. The Retired Emperor admonished them and sent them away, but the two insisted and would not leave. That night, he sent the two men off to draw water, and in the interval slipped away with Junkaku and hurried back toward Fushimi. On the way they passed by the temporary palace at Anō, where he had an audience with Emperor Go-Murakami; as they talked together the conversation turned to the wars, and Emperor Go-Murakami wept with sorrow. When he took his leave, he was offered a horse from the stables, but declined it. On returning to the capital, he again took up residence at the Kōgon-in palace. Visitors still came often to call on him there, and so he went out to Yamaguni in Tanba province, where he built a hermitage and lived. On the day Tsuchinoto-mi in the seventh month of the third year of Jōji (1364), he died, at the age of fifty-two, and was buried on that same spot (Note: following the Taiheiki; his age of fifty-two follows the Kōin Shōunroku and the Kōnendai Ryakuki). His remains were interred at Kongōin temple, and his portrait was enshrined at Daikōmyōji temple (Note: following the Gofukashin'in Kanpakuki). By his own testament he was called the Cloistered Emperor Kōgon-in (Note: following the Kōin Shōunroku and the Kōnendai Ryakuki; none of the sources record the day of his burial).

Emperor Kōmyō

¶Emperor Kōmyō's personal name was Toyohito. He was Emperor Kōgon's younger brother by the same mother.

¶He was born on the twenty-third day of the twelfth month of the first year of Genkō (1321), the day Mizunoe-inu. In the second month of the second year, he was made an imperial prince (Note: following the Kōin Shōunroku, the Rekidai Kōki, and the Kōnendai Ryakuki).

¶On the fifteenth day of the eighth month of the first year of Engen (1336), the day Tsuchinoe-ne, he underwent his coming-of-age ceremony, genpuku, and received the abdicated throne, senso, at the Oshikōji residence of the Gon Dainagon, Provisional Major Counsellor, Fujiwara-no-Yoshimoto (Note: following the Kōnendai Ryakuki and the Tenshō manuscript of the Taiheiki). The era name Engen was discarded, and Kenmu 3 was used in its place (Note: following the Kugyō Bunin and the Kōnendai Ryakuki). The Sadaijin, Minister of the Left, Fujiwara-no-Tsunetada, was made Kanpaku, Chancellor, and the Udaijin, Minister of the Right, Fujiwara-no-Kinkata; the Naidaijin, Inner Minister, Fujiwara-no-Tsunemichi; the Gon Dainagon and concurrently Captain of the Left Palace Guards, Fujiwara-no-Michinori; and the Gon Dainagon and concurrently Captain of the Right Palace Guards, Fujiwara-no-Morohira, all remained in their posts (Note: following the Rekidai Kōki and the Kugyō Bunin). On the twenty-second day, the day Kinoto-hitsuji, the emperor made a progress to Ashikaga Takauji's encampment at Tōji. On the second day of the eleventh month, the day Kinoe-tatsu, the emperor received the sacred sword, jewel, and mirror from Emperor Go-Daigo. Emperor Go-Daigo was honored with a title and called Daijō Tennō, Retired Emperor (Note: following the Kōin Shōunroku and the Kōnendai Ryakuki). On the fourteenth day, the day Hinoe-tatsu, the Retired Emperor's seventh son, Imperial Prince Nariyoshi, was installed as Crown Prince (Note: following the Kōnendai Ryakuki and the Rekidai Kōki). The Naidaijin Fujiwara-no-Tsunemichi was made Tōgū no Fu, Tutor to the Crown Prince (Note: following the Kugyō Bunin). On the tenth day of the twelfth month, the day Mizunoe-uma, the emperor made a progress to Fujiwara-no-Tsunemichi's Muromachi residence. On the twenty-first day, the day Mizunoto-mi, the Retired Emperor Go-Daigo departed for Yoshino (Note: following the Kōin Shōunroku and the Kōnendai Ryakuki). Soon afterward the Crown Prince was deposed (Note: following the Rekidai Kōki and the Kōnendai Ryakuki). On the sixteenth day of the first month of the fourth year, the day Tsuchinoe-uma, Imperial Princess Shunshi was given the title Shin-Muromachi-in. On the seventh day of the second month, the day Tsuchinoe-tora, Imperial Princess Jushi was given the title Kian-mon'in (Note: following the Kijoshō and the Nyoin Shōden). On the fifth day of the fourth month, the day Kinoto-i, the Kanpaku Tsunetada went to the temporary palace at Yoshino. On the sixteenth day, the day Hinoe-inu, the former Sadaijin Mototsugu was made Kanpaku. On the twelfth day of the seventh month, the day Kanoe-inu, the Naidaijin Fujiwara-no-Tsunemichi moved up to Sadaijin, the Udaijin Fujiwara-no-Kinkata resigned, the Gon Dainagon and concurrently Captain of the Left Palace Guards Fujiwara-no-Michinori became Udaijin, and the Gon Dainagon and concurrently Captain of the Right Palace Guards Fujiwara-no-Morohira became Naidaijin (Note: following the Kugyō Bunin and the Rekidai Kōki). On the twenty-eighth day of the twelfth month, the day Kinoe-uma, the emperor was enthroned at the Daijōkan-chō. He was seventeen years of age at the time (Note: following the Zoku Jinnō Shōtōki, the Kōnendai Ryakuki, and the Bishamondō Shozōki).

¶On the last day of the fourth month of the first year of Ryakuō (1338), the day Kinoe-uma, the Jun Sangū, Associate to the Three Empresses, Fujiwara-no-Saneko, was given the title Senkōmon-in (Note: following the Nyoin Shōden; the Rekidai Kōki and the Kijoshō give the twenty-eighth day). On the nineteenth day of the fifth month, the day Mizunoto-ushi, the Kanpaku Mototsugu resigned. The Sadaijin Fujiwara-no-Tsunemichi was made Kanpaku (Note: following the Kugyō Bunin and the Rekidai Kōki). On the sixth day of the seventh month, the day Tsuchinoe-inu, the Iwashimizu Shrine burned down (Note: following the Iwashimizu Kairokuki and the entry for the fourth year of Ōan in the Gogumaiki). On the seventeenth day, the day Kanoe-inu, because of the fire at the Iwashimizu Shrine, the business of the court was suspended for five days (Note: following the Iwashimizu Kairokuki). On the twenty-eighth day of the intercalary month, the day Kanoe-tora, the fire at the Iwashimizu Shrine was divined in the corridor hall. On the eleventh day of the eighth month, the day Mizunoto-tori, an envoy was sent to Iwashimizu (Note: following the entry for the fourth year of Ōan in the Gogumaiki). The Seitō Shōgun and Gon Dainagon, Ashikaga Takauji, was made Seii Taishōgun, Great General for the Subjugation of the Barbarians (Note: following the Kugyō Bunin and the Kitsuregawa Keizu). On the thirteenth day, the day Kinoto-i, the emperor's nephew, Imperial Prince Masuhito, was installed as Crown Prince (Note: following the Rekidai Kōki, the Kōnendai Ryakuki, and the Kōin Shōunroku). The Udaijin Fujiwara-no-Michinori was made Tōgū no Fu (Note: following the Kugyō Bunin and the Rekidai Kōki). On the twenty-eighth day, the day Kanoe-tora, the era name was changed (Note: following the Kōnendai Ryakuki, the Kōdaiki, and the Kugyō Bunin). On the last day, the day Mizunoe-tatsu, the Udaijin Fujiwara-no-Michinori resigned as Captain of the Left Palace Guards (Note: following the Kugyō Bunin). On the nineteenth day of the tenth month, the day Kanoe-inu, the Naidaijin Fujiwara-no-Morohira resigned as Captain of the Right Palace Guards, and the Gon Dainagon Fujiwara-no-Yoshimoto took up the post of Captain of the Left Palace Guards concurrently, while the Dainagon Minamoto-no-Tomochika took up the post of Captain of the Right Palace Guards concurrently (Note: following the Kugyō Bunin and the Rekidai Kōki). On the twenty-eighth day, the day Tsuchinoto-hitsuji, the purification rite, gokei, was performed (Note: following the Rekidai Kōki and the Kōnendai Ryakuki). On the nineteenth day of the eleventh month, the day Tsuchinoto-u, the Daijōe, the Great Thanksgiving rite, was performed (Note: following the Kugyō Bunin, the Rekidai Kōki, and the Kōnendai Ryakuki). On the sixteenth day of the first month of the second year, the day Hinoe-ne, the former Udaijin Fujiwara-no-Kanesue died (Note: following the Sonpi Bunmyaku and the Entairyaku). On the sixteenth day of the eighth month, the day Mizunoe-tora, Emperor Go-Daigo died at the temporary palace at Yoshino (Note: following the Jinnō Shōtōki, the Kōin Shōunroku, the Jōrakuki, and the Genkō Nikki Uragaki). On the fifth day of the tenth month, the day Kanoe-tora, Emperor Go-Murakami ascended the throne at the temporary palace at Yoshino (Note: following the Sekijō-sho Uragaki). On the twenty-seventh day of the twelfth month, the day Kanoto-i, the Kanpaku Tsunemichi resigned as Sadaijin, the Udaijin Fujiwara-no-Michinori moved up to Sadaijin, the Naidaijin Fujiwara-no-Morohira moved to Udaijin, and the Dainagon Minamoto-no-Tomochika became Naidaijin. This winter, because the sacred tree of Kasuga was moved in procession to Chōkōdō temple, the autumn appointments of capital officials were suspended (Note: following the Entairyaku). On the eighth day of the seventh month of the third year, the day Tsuchinoto-hitsuji (Note: the source text gives an invalid character for the stem here; corrected by calculation from the sexagenary cycle), the Naidaijin and concurrently Captain of the Right Palace Guards, Minamoto-no-Tomochika, resigned. On the nineteenth day, the day Kanoe-uma, the Gon Dainagon and concurrently Captain of the Left Palace Guards, Fujiwara-no-Yoshimoto, became Naidaijin, and the Dainagon Fujiwara-no-Sanetada took up the post of Captain of the Right Palace Guards concurrently (Note: following the Kugyō Bunin and the Rekidai Kōki). On the sixth day of the tenth month, the day Hinoe-inu, Sasaki Takauji set a fire that burned down Myōhōin temple, and had the Hosshinnō, Imperial Prince and Monk, Sukehito, flogged (Note: following the Taiheiki; the sixth day of the tenth month follows the Konshōin manuscript). On the twenty-seventh day of the twelfth month, the day Hinoe-uma, the former Udaijin Minamoto-no-Nagamichi became Daijō Daijin, Chancellor of the Realm (Note: following the Kugyō Bunin and the Rekidai Kōki). On the twenty-fifth day of the fourth month of the fourth year, the day Mizunoe-tora, Sasaki Takauji was exiled to Kazusa (Note: following the Taiheiki). On the nineteenth day of the eighth month, the day Kinoe-ne, the sacred tree of Kasuga returned to its proper place.

¶On the twenty-sixth day of the first month of the first year of Kōei (1342), the day Tsuchinoe-inu, the Kanpaku Tsunemichi resigned. On the twenty-seventh day, the day Tsuchinoto-i, the Sadaijin Fujiwara-no-Michinori became Kanpaku. On the twenty-ninth day of the third month, the day Kanoe-ne, the Daijō Daijin Nagamichi resigned (Note: the Rekidai Kōki gives this as the nineteenth day of the second month). On the last day, the day Kanoto-ushi, the Kanpaku Michinori resigned as Tōgū no Fu. The Naidaijin Fujiwara-no-Yoshimoto was made Tōgū no Fu (Note: following the Kugyō Bunin). On the twenty-seventh day of the fourth month, the day Tsuchinoe-tatsu, the era name was changed (Note: following the Kugyō Bunin, the Kōdaiki, and the Bishamondō Shozōki). On the third day of the ninth month, the day Mizunoe-saru, the Retired Emperor Kōgon made a progress to the Fushimi Palace and performed rites for the repose of Emperor Fushimi. Toki Yoritō, drunk with wine, violated the imperial procession. On the first day of the tenth month, the day Tsuchinoto-i, Toki Yoritō submitted to execution (Note: following the Taiheiki; the first day of the month follows the Jōrakuki). On the first day of the eleventh month, the day Tsuchinoto-mi (Note: the source text gives an invalid character for the stem here; corrected by calculation from the sexagenary cycle), the Kanpaku Michinori resigned as Sadaijin. On the twelfth day, the day Kanoe-tatsu, the Kanpaku Michinori resigned (Note: the Rekidai Kōki gives the thirteenth day for both his resignation as Kanpaku and as Sadaijin). On the eighteenth day, the day Hinoe-inu, the Udaijin Fujiwara-no-Morohira became Kanpaku. On the twenty-first day of the twelfth month, the day Tsuchinoto-hitsuji, the Naidaijin Fujiwara-no-Yoshimoto resigned as Captain of the Left Palace Guards. On the nineteenth day of the third month of the second year, the day Kinoto-tori, the Dainagon and concurrently Captain of the Right Palace Guards, Fujiwara-no-Sanetada, resigned. On the twenty-seventh day, the day Mizunoto-mi (Note: the source text gives an invalid character for the branch here; corrected by calculation from the sexagenary cycle), the Kanpaku Morohira resigned as Udaijin. On the tenth day of the fourth month, the day Kinoto-mi, the former Udaijin Fujiwara-no-Kinkata became Sadaijin, the Naidaijin Fujiwara-no-Yoshimoto moved to Udaijin, the former Dainagon Fujiwara-no-Sanetada became Naidaijin, the Dainagon Fujiwara-no-Fuyunobu took up the post of Captain of the Left Palace Guards concurrently, and the Dainagon Fujiwara-no-Kinkiyo took up the post of Captain of the Right Palace Guards concurrently (Note: following the Kugyō Bunin and the Rekidai Kōki; the Rekidai Kōki gives the nineteenth day of the third month for Fuyunobu's and Kinkiyo's concurrent appointment as captains, but the Kugyō Bunin is followed here instead). On the fifteenth day of the eighth month of the third year, the day Mizunoe-saru, the palanquin of the Hachiman Shrine of Tōdaiji entered the capital. On the twentieth day, the day Hinoto-ushi, because the palanquin remained in the capital, the banquet and the privy session following the Sekiten were cancelled. On the twenty-third day of the tenth month, the day Tsuchinoto-u, the emperor visited the Retired Emperor Kōgon at Jimyōin. On the twenty-sixth day, the day Mizunoe-uma, he returned to the palace.

¶On the first day of the first month of the first year of Jōwa (1345), the day Hinoe-inu, the New Year's audience, gan'e, was held. On the seventh day, the day Mizunoe-tatsu, the Blue Horse Banquet, aouma no sechie, was held. On the sixteenth day, the day Kanoto-ushi, the Stamping Dance, tōka, was performed; music was omitted on each occasion. On the second day of the second month, the day Hinoto-mi, the banquet and privy session following the Sekiten were cancelled. On the fifth day, the day Kanoe-saru, thieves broke into the Crown Prince's quarters and made off with robes belonging to the Naishi-no-Tsubone, the Handmaids' Office. On the eleventh day, the day Hinoe-tora, the Daigaku no Kami, Director of the University, Ki-no-Yukichika, was wounded by thieves and died (Note: his surname follows the Kōei Utaawase). On the seventh day of the third month, the day Kanoto-u, the shrine hall of the Shirachi Shrine in Nara collapsed. On the twenty-ninth day, the day Mizunoto-ushi, he moved to the New Hall to avoid an unlucky direction. On the last day, the day Kinoe-tora, he returned to the palace. On the twelfth day of the fourth month, the day Hinoe-tora, the eternal lamp, jōmyōtō, at the central hall of Enryakuji went out for no apparent reason, and this was divined (Note: following the Entairyaku and the Kōnendai Ryakuki). In the seventh month a comet appeared in the northeast. On the twenty-sixth day, the day Tsuchinoe-saru, the Ninnōgyō and Hannyagyō sutras were chanted throughout the Five Home Provinces and Seven Circuits to avert the calamity of the comet. On the morning of the day Mizunoe-ne in the eighth month, Ashikaga Seiō died, and the business of the court was suspended for seven days. On the eighth day, the day Tsuchinoto-hitsuji, envoys were sent out to the five mausolea of Kanegahara, Jōkongōin, Fukakusa, and others, to avert the calamity of the comet (Note: following the Entairyaku; Seiō's personal name follows the Jōrakuki). This month, Tenryūji temple, founded by Ashikaga Takauji, was completed. The emperor issued an edict placing it on a level with the temples under imperial vow, chokuganji, but because the monks of Enryakuji protested, this command was withdrawn (Note: following the Entairyaku and the Taiheiki). On the eighth day of the ninth month, the day Tsuchinoto-ushi, the Naidaijin Fujiwara-no-Sanetada resigned, and the Dainagon and concurrently Captain of the Left Palace Guards, Fujiwara-no-Fuyunobu, became Naidaijin (Note: following the Kugyō Bunin and the Rekidai Kōki). On the twenty-first day of the tenth month, the day Kanoto-hitsuji, the era name was changed (Note: following the Kugyō Bunin, the Entairyaku, and the Kōdaiki). On the first day of the first month of the second year, the day Kanoto-mi, the Lesser New Year's Obeisance, kochōhai, was omitted, and the flute music of the Kuzu-no-Sō performance was dispensed with. On the seventh day, the day Hinoto-i, the flute music of the Blue Horse Banquet was dispensed with. On the twenty-first day, the day Kanoto-ushi, the palanquin of the Hachiman Shrine of Tōdaiji returned to its proper place (Note: following the Entairyaku). On the eighteenth day of the second month, the day Hinoto-u, the Naidaijin and concurrently Captain of the Left Palace Guards, Fujiwara-no-Fuyunobu, resigned, and the Dainagon Fujiwara-no-Kinkiyo became Naidaijin. On the twenty-ninth day, the day Tsuchinoe-tora, the Kanpaku Morohira resigned, and the Udaijin Fujiwara-no-Yoshimoto became Kanpaku (Note: following the Kugyō Bunin and the Rekidai Kōki). On the twenty-fifth day of the fifth month, the day Mizunoto-u, the former Udaijin Fujiwara-no-Suehira died (Note: following the Entairyaku). On the eleventh day of the sixth month, the day Tsuchinoe-uma, the Sadaijin Fujiwara-no-Kinkata resigned (Note: following the Kugyō Bunin). On the fourteenth day of the intercalary ninth month, the day Tsuchinoto-hitsuji, he made a progress to Jimyōin. On the fifteenth day, the day Kanoe-saru, he made a progress to the new hall of Kōgimon-in. On the sixteenth day, the day Kanoto-tori, he returned to the palace (Note: following the Entairyaku). On the sixteenth day of the tenth month, the day Kanoe-tora, the Naidaijin Fujiwara-no-Kinkiyo resigned as Captain of the Right Palace Guards, and the Gon Dainagon Fujiwara-no-Tsunenori took up the post of Captain of the Left Palace Guards concurrently, while the Gon Dainagon Fujiwara-no-Michitsugu took up the post of Captain of the Right Palace Guards concurrently (Note: following the Kugyō Bunin, the Rekidai Kōki, and the Entairyaku). On the fourth day of the first month of the third year, the day Hinoto-hitsuji, the former Naidaijin Fujiwara-no-Sanetada died (Note: following the Sonpi Bunmyaku and the Kugyō Bunin). On the thirteenth day of the second month, the day Hinoe-inu, he moved to Jimyōin to avoid an unlucky direction. On the last day of the fifth month, the day Kanoto-hitsuji, he moved to Chōkōdō temple to avoid an unlucky direction (Note: following the Entairyaku). On the sixteenth day of the eighth month, the day Hinoe-inu, the Naidaijin Fujiwara-no-Kinkiyo resigned. On the sixteenth day of the ninth month, the day Kinoto-u, the Kanpaku and Udaijin Yoshimoto moved to Sadaijin, the Gon Dainagon and concurrently Captain of the Left Palace Guards, Fujiwara-no-Tsunenori, became Udaijin, and the Gon Dainagon and concurrently Captain of the Right Palace Guards, Fujiwara-no-Michitsugu, became Naidaijin. On the twenty-eighth day of the third month of the fourth year, the day Kinoto-ushi, the Udaijin Fujiwara-no-Tsunenori resigned as Captain of the Left Palace Guards. On the twenty-eighth day of the fourth month, the day Kinoe-uma, the Naidaijin and concurrently Captain of the Right Palace Guards, Fujiwara-no-Michitsugu, moved to Captain of the Left Palace Guards, and the Dainagon Fujiwara-no-Kinshige took up the post of Captain of the Right Palace Guards concurrently (Note: following the Kugyō Bunin and the Rekidai Kōki). On the seventeenth day of the fifth month, the day Mizunoto-ushi, offerings, heihaku, were presented at the various shrines in prayer for rain. On the twenty-eighth day, the day Kinoe-ne, heavy rain brought flooding. On the eighth day of the seventh month, the day Mizunoto-u, the monks of Kōfukuji protested the repair of the corridor of the Kasuga Shrine, and the sacred tree was moved to the relocation hall (Note: following the Entairyaku). On the twelfth day of the eighth month, the day Hinoe-ne, the Naidaijin Fujiwara-no-Michitsugu resigned as Captain of the Left Palace Guards (Note: following the Kugyō Bunin). On the nineteenth day of the ninth month, the day Mizunoto-ushi, he moved to Jimyōin to avoid an unlucky direction. On the twentieth day, the day Kinoe-tora, he returned to the palace (Note: following the Entairyaku). On the seventh day of the tenth month, the day Kanoe-uma, the Dainagon and concurrently Captain of the Right Palace Guards, Fujiwara-no-Kinshige, moved to Captain of the Left Palace Guards, and the Gon Dainagon Fujiwara-no-Nagasada took up the post of Captain of the Right Palace Guards concurrently. On the twenty-second day, the day Kinoto-tori, the former Sadaijin Fujiwara-no-Kinkata became Daijō Daijin, Chancellor of the Realm (Note: following the Kugyō Bunin and the Rekidai Kōki). On the twenty-seventh day, the day Kanoe-tora, the emperor abdicated in favor of the Crown Prince and moved his residence to Tsuchimikado-dono (Note: following the Entairyaku, the Kōin Shōunroku, the Kugyō Bunin, the Rekidai Kōki, the Taiheiki, the Kōnendai Ryakuki, and the Kōdai Ryakki; the residence at Tsuchimikado-dono follows the Entairyaku). In the eleventh month he was honored with a title and called Daijō Tennō, Retired Emperor (Note: following the Entairyaku, the Kōin Shōunroku, the Rekidai Kōki, the Kōnendai Ryakuki, and the Kōdai Ryakki).

¶In the twelfth month of the second year of Kannō (1351), he took the tonsure. His Buddhist name was Shinjōe (Note: following the Chinyōki, the Entairyaku, the Kōin Shōunroku, the Kōnendai Ryakuki, and the Kōdai Ryakki; the Buddhist name follows the Kōin Shōunroku and the two following works).

¶In the first year of Bunna (1352), he was removed to Anō together with the Retired Emperor Sukō. As he was setting out, the Retired Emperor said to the Captain of the Right Palace Guards, Minamoto-no-Akiyoshi: "I never truly wished to take the throne; I was only compelled to it by men of arms. Once I had stepped down from it, I wished to leave the capital at once and follow far in the footsteps of the Cloistered Emperor Kazan (Note: the source text here identifies this figure as the Cloistered Emperor Uda, but the original text names only Kazan, a different sovereign; Kazan, renowned for his wandering pilgrimages as a monk after renouncing the throne, is followed here as the more probable reference), yet even this I have not been able to accomplish. Now, just as the state is being restored anew, and all things are coming at last to fulfill their proper nature, I ask only that I might receive some special grace, don the ink-black robes of a monk, and end my days in some remote and humble place. I beg you to submit this plea on my behalf." Akiyoshi did not presume to carry out this command. Afterward, when Emperor Go-Murakami heard of it, he was moved to sorrow (Note: following the Taiheiki). In the eighth month of the fourth year (1355), the Retired Emperor put on monk's robes and changed his Buddhist name to Shin'e. He went to the temporary palace at Amano. Before long he returned to the capital and took up residence at the Fushimi Palace, where he studied deeply into the mysteries of the Buddhist teaching. He later moved his residence to Daikōmyōji and Hōanji temples, then removed to Kongōjuin temple in Fukakusa, and afterward lived at Hasedera temple.

¶In the sixth month of the second year of Kōryaku (1380), he died, at the age of sixty. By his own testament he was called Kōmyō-in (Note: compiled from the Kōin Shōunroku, the Kōnendai Ryakuki, the Kōdai Ryakki, the Entairyaku, the Chinyōki, and the Taiheiki. The Taiheiki and the Chinyōki state that he returned to the capital together with the Retired Emperor Kōgon, but this is mistaken. None of the sources record the place of his burial).

Emperor Sukō

¶Emperor Sukō's personal name was Okihito; his original name had been Masuhito. He was Emperor Kōgon's eldest son. His mother was Yōrokumon-in.

¶He was born on the twenty-second day of the fourth month of the first year of Kenmu (1334), the day Tsuchinoto-u. When Emperor Kōmyō ascended the throne, he was made an imperial prince in the eighth month of the first year of Ryakuō (1338). On the thirteenth day, the day Kinoe-uma, he was installed as Crown Prince (Note: following the Kōin Shōunroku, the Rekidai Kōki, and the Kōnendai Ryakuki; the Gogumaiki gives the fifteenth day for his installation as Crown Prince).

¶On the twenty-seventh day of the tenth month of the fourth year of Jōwa (1348), the day Kanoe-tora, the Crown Prince received the abdicated throne, senso, at the Oshikōji residence of the Kanpaku and Sadaijin, Yoshimoto (Note: following the Entairyaku, the Kugyō Bunin, the Kōnendai Ryakuki, and the Kōdai Ryakki). The Kanpaku and Sadaijin Yoshimoto, the Daijō Daijin Kinkata, the Udaijin Fujiwara-no-Tsunenori, the Naidaijin Fujiwara-no-Michitsugu, the Dainagon and concurrently Captain of the Left Palace Guards, Fujiwara-no-Kinshige, and the Gon Dainagon and concurrently Captain of the Right Palace Guards, Fujiwara-no-Nagasada, all remained in their posts (Note: following the Kugyō Bunin and the Rekidai Kōki). The Retired Emperor Hanazono's son, Imperial Prince Naohito, was installed as Kōtaitei, Crown Prince's younger-brother heir (Note: following the Rekidai Kōki, the Kōnendai Ryakuki, and the Entairyaku). The Naidaijin Fujiwara-no-Michitsugu was made Tōgū no Fu, Tutor to the Crown Prince (Note: following the Kugyō Bunin). On the eleventh day of the eleventh month, the day Kinoe-tatsu, the Cloistered Retired Emperor Hanazono died (Note: following the Entairyaku, the Kōin Shōunroku, the Kōnendai Ryakuki, the Kōdai Ryakki, and the Jōrakuki). On the thirteenth day, the day Hinoe-uma, Emperor Hanazono was buried (Note: following the Entairyaku). On the twenty-fifth day, the day Tsuchinoe-uma, Emperor Kōmyō was honored with a title and called Daijō Tennō, Retired Emperor (Note: following the Entairyaku, the Kōnendai Ryakuki, and the Kōin Shōunroku; the Rekidai Kōki gives the twenty-eighth day). On the morning of the day Mizunoto-mi in the first month of the fifth year, because the sacred tree of Kasuga was at the relocation hall, the emperor did not go in state to the hall even for the New Year's audience. On the ninth day, the day Kanoto-ushi, he moved to Jimyōin to avoid an unlucky direction. On the tenth day, the day Mizunoe-tora, he returned to the palace (Note: following the Entairyaku). On the sixth day of the seventh month, the day Kinoto-ushi, the former Kanpaku Michinori died (Note: following the Kugyō Bunin). On the thirteenth day of the ninth month, the day Kanoto-hitsuji, the Kanpaku Yoshimoto resigned as Sadaijin, the Udaijin Fujiwara-no-Tsunenori moved to Sadaijin, the Naidaijin Fujiwara-no-Michitsugu became Udaijin, and the Dainagon and concurrently Captain of the Left Palace Guards, Fujiwara-no-Kinshige, became Naidaijin (Note: following the Kugyō Bunin and the Rekidai Kōki). On the twenty-sixth day of the twelfth month, the day Mizunoe-ne, the emperor was enthroned at the Daijōkan-chō. He was sixteen years of age at the time. This year corresponded to the fourth year of Shōhei (1349) in Emperor Go-Murakami's reign (Note: following the Rekidai Kōki, the Kōnendai Ryakuki, and the Taiheiki; the Kugyō Bunin gives the twenty-seventh day).

¶On the twenty-seventh day of the second month of the first year of Kannō (1350), the day Mizunoe-ne, the era name was changed (Note: following the Entairyaku, the Kugyō Bunin, and the Kōnendai Ryakuki). On the eighteenth day of the third month, the day Mizunoto-tori, the Daijō Daijin Kinkata resigned (Note: following the Kugyō Bunin and the Entairyaku). On the sixteenth day of the fifth month, the day Kanoe-uma, thieves killed the Sangi, Councillor, Sugawara-no-Aritō (Note: following the Kugyō Bunin, the Gion Shigyō Nikki Shō, the Taiheiki, the Sugawara Keizu, and the Jōrakuki). On the twenty-seventh day of the eighth month, the day Kanoe-inu, the Sama no Kami, Head of the Left Horse Bureau, Ashikaga Yoshiakira, attacked Toki Yoriaki in Mino and killed him (Note: following the Entairyaku and the Gion Shigyō Nikki Shō). On the eighth day of the eleventh month, the day Tsuchinoto-hitsuji (Note: the source text gives an invalid character for the stem here; corrected by calculation from the sexagenary cycle), the Naidaijin Fujiwara-no-Kinshige resigned as Captain of the Left Palace Guards (Note: following the Kugyō Bunin). On the ninth day of the twelfth month, the day Kanoe-tora, Ashikaga Tadayoshi submitted to the temporary palace at Yoshino (Note: following the Taiheiki). On the twenty-third day, the day Kinoe-tatsu, because Ashikaga Tadayoshi's troops were on the point of entering the capital, the emperor made a progress to Tsuchimikado-dono. On the twenty-eighth day, the day Tsuchinoto-tori (Note: the source text gives an invalid character for the stem here; corrected by calculation from the sexagenary cycle), he returned to the palace. On the first day of the first month of the second year, the day Kanoto-i, the emperor did not go in state to the hall for the New Year's audience, and the Kuzu-no-Sō performance, the Lesser New Year's Obeisance, and the other rites that followed it were all omitted. On the fourteenth day, the day Tsuchinoe-ne, he made a progress to Jimyōin, to avoid Ashikaga Tadayoshi's troops. On the sixteenth day, the day Hinoe-tora, the sacred tree of Kasuga returned to its proper place (Note: following the Entairyaku). On the twenty-seventh day of the second month, the day Hinoto-tori, the Seii Taishōgun Ashikaga Takauji put to death Kō-no-Moronao and Kō-no-Moroyasu (Note: following the Tōji Chōja Bunin and the Chōrakuki; the Entairyaku gives the twenty-fifth day, and the Taiheiki the twenty-sixth). On the tenth day of the fourth month, the day Tsuchinoto-ushi, the Naidaijin Fujiwara-no-Kinshige resigned (Note: following the Kugyō Bunin and the Rekidai Kōki). On the sixteenth day, the day Kinoto-hitsuji, the Gon Dainagon Fujiwara-no-Fuyumichi took up the post of Captain of the Left Palace Guards concurrently (Note: following the Kugyō Bunin). On the twenty-sixth day of the sixth month, the day Mizunoto-u, the Dainagon and concurrently Captain of the Right Palace Guards, Fujiwara-no-Nagasada, became Naidaijin. On the nineteenth day of the ninth month, the day Kinoto-ushi, the Naidaijin and concurrently Captain of the Right Palace Guards, Fujiwara-no-Nagasada, resigned (Note: following the Kugyō Bunin and the Rekidai Kōki). On the seventh day of the eleventh month, the day Ushi (Note: the source text's character for the stem is corrupt here and cannot be reliably determined), the Sakon'e Chūjō, Middle Captain of the Left Palace Guards, Ashikaga Yoshiakira, deposed the emperor and the Kōtaitei Naohito, and the era name Shōhei was adopted in their place (Note: compiled from the Kōin Shōunroku and the Kōnendai Ryakuki). On the twenty-third day of the twelfth month, the day Tsuchinoe-inu, the emperor presented the sacred sword, jewel, and mirror to Emperor Go-Murakami (Note: following the Entairyaku). On the twenty-eighth day, the day Mizunoto-u, Emperor Go-Murakami honored the emperor with a title and called him Daijō Tennō, Retired Emperor (Note: following the Kōin Shōunroku, the Kōnendai Ryakuki, and the Chinyōki). The following year (1352), the emperor, together with the two retired emperors Kōgon and Kōmyō and Imperial Prince Naohito, all proceeded together to the temporary encampment at Otokoyama (Note: following the Kōnendai Ryakuki, the Chinyōki, the Entairyaku, and the Tōji Chōja Bunin). Since this had come about so suddenly, there was no proper palanquin for them to ride in. The former Daijō Daijin Kinkata offered up a single carriage, and all four rode together in it. Among the close attendants who followed in formal escort there were no more than three men. They reached Tōji by night, and when morning came no meal had yet been prepared; a lady-in-waiting at length found some rice and served it to them. They remained at Otokoyama, and after a month's time made a progress to Tōjō in Kawachi; before long they were removed to Anō, where they were confined within a ruined dwelling hedged about with thorns. Soldiers were stationed to guard them strictly, and only a single waiting-woman and a single concubine were allotted to each of them to see to their needs (Note: following the Entairyaku, taken together with the Chinyōki, the Yoshino Shūi, the Tōji Chōja Bunin, and the Taiheiki).

¶In the second month of the second year of Enbun (1357), the emperor returned to the Fushimi Palace (Note: following the Kōin Shōunroku, the Kōnendai Ryakuki, the Chinyōki, the Entairyaku, and the Zoku Jinnō Shōtōki).

¶In the eleventh month of the third year of Meitoku (1392), he took the tonsure. His Buddhist name was Shōenshin.

¶On the thirteenth day of the first month of the fifth year of Ōei (1398), the day Kanoto-tori, he died at the Fushimi Palace, at the age of sixty-five (Note: following the Kōin Shōunroku and the Kōnendai Ryakuki). By his own testament he was called Sukō-in (Note: following the Kōnendai Ryakuki and the Chinyōki; none of the sources record the place of his burial). Throughout his reign the realm was beset by disorder, and the rites of the purification ceremony and the Great Thanksgiving were in the end never performed (Note: following the Kōnendai Ryakuki and the Zoku Jinnō Shōtōki).

Emperor Go-Kōgon

¶Emperor Go-Kōgon's personal name was Iyahito. He was Emperor Sukō's younger brother by the same mother.

¶He was born on the second day of the third month of the first year of Ryakuō (1338), the day Hinoto-tori (Note: following the Kōin Shōunroku, the Kōnendai Ryakuki, and the Kōdaiki).

¶In the second month of the second year of Jōwa (1346), the ceremony of first wearing the hakama, chakko, was performed (Note: following the Entairyaku).

¶In the second year of Kannō (1351), Emperor Sukō was deposed. His maternal grandmother, of the Fujiwara, wished to have him made a monk so that he might withdraw from the world. Kōgimon-in ordered the monk Jissan of the Hokutodō to divine the matter, and the sign that came forth was that he would become Son of Heaven. He was therefore hidden away and raised in the household of the Udaiben, Major Controller of the Right, Fujiwara-no-Tokimitsu (Note: following the Taiheiki).

¶On the twenty-sixth day of the second month of the first year of Bunna (1352), the day Kanoe-ne, Ashikaga Takauji killed his younger brother Tadayoshi (Note: following the Kōnendai Ryakuki, the Jōrakuki, and the Taiheiki). On the twentieth day of the intercalary month, the day Kinoe-ne, the Udaijin Fujiwara-no-Michitsugu resigned as Tōgū no Fu (Note: following the Kugyō Bunin). On the twenty-first day, the day Kinoto-ushi, the three sovereigns Kōgon, Kōmyō, and Sukō, together with Imperial Prince Naohito, were taken to Anō. The emperor ought by rights to have gone together with them, but in the event this did not come to pass. In the eighth month — earlier, because the capital had no ruler, Ashikaga Takauji had petitioned Kōgimon-in to have the emperor raised to the throne. The assembled courtiers held this to be difficult, since the sacred regalia had not been transmitted to him and no command of abdication had come from any reigning sovereign. Takauji would not listen to this objection. The former Daijō Daijin Kinkata argued that the precedent of Emperor Keitai ought to be followed, and his view was adopted. On the seventeenth day, the day Hinoto-mi, Kōgimon-in made the emperor an imperial prince and had the rite of his coming-of-age ceremony, genpuku, performed (Note: following the Entairyaku). He received the abdicated throne, senso, at Tsuchimikado-dono (Note: following the Entairyaku, the Bishamondō Shozōki, the Kugyō Bunin, the Kōin Shōunroku, and the Kōnendai Ryakuki). The Kanpaku Yoshimoto, the Sadaijin Fujiwara-no-Tsunenori, the Udaijin Fujiwara-no-Michitsugu, and the Gon Dainagon and concurrently Captain of the Left Palace Guards, Fujiwara-no-Fuyumichi, all remained in their posts (Note: following the Kugyō Bunin and the Rekidai Kōki). On the twenty-seventh day of the ninth month, the day Hinoto-tori, the era name was changed (Note: following the Kugyō Bunin, the Kōnendai Ryakuki, the Kōdai Ryakki, the Entairyaku, and the Zoku Jinnō Shōtōki). On the twenty-ninth day of the tenth month, the day Tsuchinoto-mi, the Jun Sangū Fujiwara-no-Shūshi was given the title Yōrokumon-in (Note: following the Entairyaku and the Nyoin Shōden; the Kijoshō gives the twenty-seventh day). On the twenty-seventh day of the eleventh month, the day Hinoto-tori, the former Gon Dainagon Fujiwara-no-Kinhide became Naidaijin (Note: following the Kugyō Bunin, the Rekidai Kōki, and the Entairyaku). On the fourth day of the second month of the second year, the day Mizunoe-tora, Jimyōin burned down (Note: following the Kōnendai Ryakuki, the Entairyaku, and the Taiheiki). In the third month, a nun in the capital was discovered to have murdered several dozen small children; she was arrested and executed (Note: following the Entairyaku). On the fifth day of the fourth month, the day Mizunoe-tora, a great wind blew and the Shingon-in hall fell down (Note: following the Tōji Chōja Bunin). On the ninth day of the sixth month, the day Kinoto-mi, Ashikaga Yoshiakira fought Yamana Tokiuji and was defeated. Yoshiakira, bearing the emperor, made a progress to Higashi-Sakamoto. On the thirteenth day, the day Tsuchinoto-tori, they reached Mino (Note: following the Entairyaku and the Taiheiki). On the second day of the seventh month, the day Hinoto-u, the Naidaijin Fujiwara-no-Kinhide abandoned his office and became a monk. On the sixth day of the eighth month, the day Kinoto-ushi, the former Kanpaku Morohira died. On the twenty-seventh day, the day Mizunoe-inu, the former Daijō Daijin Nagamichi died (Note: following the Kugyō Bunin). On the twenty-first day of the ninth month, the day Kinoto-tori, the emperor returned from Mino and entered Tsuchimikado-dono (Note: following the Entairyaku, the Kōnendai Ryakuki, and the Kōdaiki). On the eleventh day of the twelfth month, the day Kinoe-tatsu, thieves killed the former Sangi Fujiwara-no-Saneyasu (Note: following the Kugyō Bunin). On the twenty-seventh day, the day Kanoto-tori, the emperor was enthroned at the Daijōkan-chō. He was sixteen years of age at the time (Note: following the Kōnendai Ryakuki and the Kōdaiki). On the eighth day of the fourth month of the third year, the day Kanoe-ne, the former Kanpaku Mototsugu died (Note: following the Kugyō Bunin). On the fifteenth day, the day Hinoto-hitsuji, the Gon Dainagon Minamoto-no-Michisuke took up the post of Captain of the Right Palace Guards concurrently (Note: following the Kugyō Bunin and the Rekidai Kōki). On the twenty-eighth day of the intercalary tenth month, the day Hinoe-inu, the purification rite, gokei, was performed. On the sixteenth day of the eleventh month, the day Mizunoto-u, the Daijōe, the Great Thanksgiving rite, was performed (Note: following the Kōnendai Ryakuki and the Kōdaiki). On the twenty-fourth day of the twelfth month, the day Kanoto-mi (Note: the source text gives an invalid character for the branch here; corrected by calculation from the sexagenary cycle), the emperor moved to Musa-dera in Ōmi, to avoid Ashikaga Tadafuyu's troops (Note: following the Kōnendai Ryakuki, the Kōdaiki, and the Mōri-family and Tenshō manuscripts of the Taiheiki). On the eighth day of the second month of the fourth year, the day Kinoto-ushi, he made a progress to Enryakuji. On the twenty-eighth day of the third month, the day Kinoe-tora, he returned to the capital and entered Tsuchimikado-dono (Note: following the Kōnendai Ryakuki, the Kōdaiki, and the Entairyaku). An edict decreed: "The fiefs of those court nobles who remained in the capital yet accepted office from Yoshino are to be confiscated." On the twenty-sixth day of the seventh month, the day Kanoe-inu, thieves broke into the rear palace and stole clothing (Note: following the Entairyaku). On the eighth day of the eighth month, the day Kanoto-tori, the Retired Emperor Kōmyō arrived in the capital from Anō (Note: following the Kōnendai Ryakuki, the Kōdaiki, and the Entairyaku). This month, at the request of the Sakon'e Chūjō Ashikaga Yoshiakira, the fiefs of the court nobles were restored. On the fifth day of the ninth month, the day Hinoto-i, the sacred tree of Kasuga was moved in procession to the relocation hall.

¶On the first day of the first month of the first year of Enbun (1356), the day Mizunoe-uma, the New Year's audience, gan'e, was held. Because the sacred tree was away in procession, the Lesser New Year's Obeisance was omitted, and the music of the Kuzu-no-Sō performance was dispensed with. On the thirteenth day, the day Kinoe-uma, the sacred tree of Kasuga returned to its proper place (Note: following the Entairyaku). On the twenty-eighth day of the third month, the day Tsuchinoto-tori, the era name was changed (Note: following the Kugyō Bunin, the Rekidai Kōki, the Kōnendai Ryakuki, and the Entairyaku). On the thirteenth day of the seventh month, the day Kanoto-u, Kōfukuji protested the matter of the shrine households attached to the Kasuga Shrine, and the sacred tree was moved to the main hall. On the eighteenth day, the day Hinoe-saru, the monks of Tōdaiji bore the palanquin of the Hachiman Shrine into the capital, and protested that the Ise Shugo, Military Governor of Ise, had killed one of the shrine's attendants (Note: following the Entairyaku; the Ise Shugo's name is not recorded). On the twenty-first day, the day Tsuchinoto-i, the Gon Dainagon and concurrently Captain of the Right Palace Guards, Minamoto-no-Michisuke, became Naidaijin (Note: following the Kugyō Bunin and the Rekidai Kōki). On the fourteenth day of the eighth month, the day Mizunoe-inu, a great wind caused flooding. On the twenty-first day, the day Tsuchinoto-mi, offerings, heihaku, were presented at the various shrines in prayer for clear weather. On the first day of the tenth month, the day Hinoto-hitsuji, thieves broke into the palace and stole imperial property. On the first day of the first month of the second year, the day Hinoe-ne, the New Year's audience was held. Because the palanquin of the Hachiman Shrine remained in the capital, the Lesser New Year's Obeisance was omitted, and the flute music of the Kuzu-no-Sō performance was dispensed with. On the sixteenth day, the day Kanoto-u, at the Stamping Dance Banquet the bamboo blinds were lowered and the music was dispensed with (Note: following the Entairyaku; the great wind follows the Tōji Chōja Bunin). On the eighteenth day of the second month, the day Mizunoto-i, the Retired Emperor Kōgon, the Retired Emperor Sukō, and Imperial Prince Naohito arrived from Anō (Note: following the Entairyaku, the Kōnendai Ryakuki, and the Kōin Shōunroku; Imperial Prince Naohito's arrival follows the Chinyōki and the Taiheiki). On the fourth day of the third month, the day Tsuchinoto-u, the sacred tree of Kasuga returned to its proper place. On the eighth day, the day Mizunoto-hitsuji, the monks of Ichijōin and the monks of Daijōin fought a battle in Nara. On the twenty-fifth day of the tenth month, the day Hinoe-saru, the monks of Ichijōin set fire to Zenjōin temple in Nara, and the blaze spread to several hundred houses. On the morning of the day Kanoe-ne in the first month of the third year, at the New Year's audience the Lesser New Year's Obeisance was omitted, and the vocal and flute music of the Kuzu-no-Sō performance was dispensed with. On the seventh day, the day Hinoe-uma, at the Blue Horse Banquet the music was dispensed with, and the performance of the Kuzu Bōke house was omitted (Note: following the Entairyaku). On the last day of the fourth month, the day Tsuchinoe-inu, the Seii Taishōgun and Gon Dainagon, Ashikaga Takauji, died (Note: following the Sonpi Bunmyaku, the Tōji Chōja Bunin, the Jōrakuki, and the Ashikaga Keizu). On the eighteenth day of the twelfth month, the day Mizunoe-uma, the Sakon'e Chūjō Ashikaga Yoshiakira was made Seii Taishōgun (Note: following the Kugyō Bunin and the Taiheiki). On the twenty-ninth day, the day Mizunoto-mi (Note: the source text gives an invalid character for the branch here; corrected by calculation from the sexagenary cycle), the Kanpaku Yoshimoto resigned. The Sadaijin Fujiwara-no-Tsunenori was made Kanpaku (Note: following the Kugyō Bunin and the Rekidai Kōki). On the first day of the first month of the fourth year, the day Kinoto-hitsuji, all the ceremonies of the New Year's audience were omitted. On the twenty-eighth day of the fourth month, the day Kanoe-tora, the Shin Senzai Wakashū was completed (Note: following the Entairyaku). On the sixth day of the fourth month of the fifth year, the day Mizunoe-inu, the former Daijō Daijin Kinkata died (Note: following the Sonpi Bunmyaku). On the eighth day of the sixth month, the day Mizunoto-mi (Note: the source text gives an invalid character for the branch here; corrected by calculation from the sexagenary cycle), the former Naidaijin Fujiwara-no-Kinkiyo died. On the last day of the ninth month, the day Kinoe-saru, the Kanpaku Tsunenori resigned as Sadaijin, the Udaijin Fujiwara-no-Michitsugu moved to Sadaijin, the Gon Dainagon and concurrently Captain of the Left Palace Guards, Fujiwara-no-Fuyumichi, became Udaijin, the Naidaijin and concurrently Captain of the Right Palace Guards, Minamoto-no-Michisuke, resigned, and the Gon Dainagon Fujiwara-no-Kintada became Naidaijin. On the seventeenth day of the eleventh month, the day Kanoe-uma, the Udaijin Fujiwara-no-Fuyumichi resigned, the Gon Dainagon Fujiwara-no-Sanenatsu took up the post of Captain of the Left Palace Guards concurrently, and the Gon Dainagon Fujiwara-no-Sanetoshi took up the post of Captain of the Right Palace Guards concurrently (Note: following the Kugyō Bunin; this work gives no date for Fuyumichi's resignation as Captain, and it is provisionally placed here on the seventeenth day).

¶On the last day of the third month of the first year of Kōan (1361), the day Kanoe-tatsu, the era name was changed (Note: following the Kugyō Bunin, the Kōnendai Ryakuki, the Gogumaiki, and the Taiheiki). On the twenty-eighth day of the sixth month, the day Hinoto-hitsuji — earlier, earthquakes had occurred frequently in the capital, and on this day the Saishōkō rite was performed. On the thirteenth day of the eighth month, the day Kanoto-u, the Shijōkōhō rite was performed, each to avert the calamity of the earthquakes (Note: following the Gogumaiki and the Taiheiki). On the twenty-third day of the ninth month, the day Kanoto-hitsuji, he made a progress to Imakumano. On this same day he returned to the palace (Note: following the Rekidai Kōki, the Gogumaiki, and the Tōji Chōja Bunin; the return to the palace follows the Bunin). On the ninth day of the eleventh month, the day Hinoe-tatsu, the Kanpaku Tsunenori resigned, and the Sadaijin Fujiwara-no-Michitsugu became Kanpaku (Note: following the Kugyō Bunin and the Rekidai Kōki). On the eighth day of the twelfth month, the day Kinoto-tori, he moved to Musa-dera in Ōmi, to avoid Hosokawa Kiyouji's troops (Note: following the Kōin Shōunroku, the Kōnendai Ryakuki, and the Taiheiki).

¶On the fifth day of the first month of the first year of Jōji (1362), the day Mizunoe-ne, he made a progress to Enryakuji. On the eleventh day of the second month, the day Hinoto-i, he returned from Enryakuji and entered the Gon Dainagon Fujiwara-no-Sanetoshi's Kitayama residence. On the twenty-first day of the fourth month, the day Hinoe-saru, he entered Tsuchimikado-dono (Note: following the Kōnendai Ryakuki). On the twenty-third day of the ninth month, the day Kinoto-ushi, the era name was changed (Note: following the Kugyō Bunin, the Kōnendai Ryakuki, and the Kōdai Ryakki). On the fourth day of the tenth month, the day Hinoe-ne, the Kanpaku Michitsugu resigned as Sadaijin (Note: following the Kugyō Bunin and the Rekidai Kōki). On the twentieth day of the twelfth month, the day Kanoto-u, the Naidaijin Fujiwara-no-Kintada resigned (Note: following the Rekidai Kōki and the Gogumaiki). On the twenty-seventh day, the day Tsuchinoe-inu, the Udaijin Fujiwara-no-Fuyumichi moved to Sadaijin, and the former Naidaijin Minamoto-no-Michisuke became Udaijin (Note: following the Kugyō Bunin and the Rekidai Kōki). On the last day of the third month of the second year, the day Tsuchinoto-i, the Gon Dainagon and concurrently Captain of the Left Palace Guards, Fujiwara-no-Sanenatsu, became Naidaijin (Note: following the Kugyō Bunin, the Rekidai Kōki, and the Gogumaiki). On the seventeenth day of the sixth month, the day Kinoto-u, the palanquin of Iwashimizu entered the capital (Note: following the Kōnendai Ryakuki, the Gogumaiki, and the Tōji Chōja Bunin). On the twenty-seventh day, the day Kinoto-ushi, the Kanpaku Michitsugu resigned. The former Kanpaku Yoshimoto was made Kanpaku (Note: following the Kugyō Bunin, the Rekidai Kōki, and the Gogumaiki). On the seventeenth day of the seventh month, the day Kinoe-saru, it was divined why the well-water at the Great Shrine of Ise had dried up, and why the sacred image at the Yoshida Shrine had gone missing from the corridor hall (Note: following the Gogumaiki). On the second day of the eighth month, the day Tsuchinoe-inu, the former Naidaijin Fujiwara-no-Kinhide died (Note: following the Sonpi Bunmyaku and the Gogumaiki). On the twenty-ninth day, the day Kinoto-ushi, the palanquin of Iwashimizu returned to its proper place (Note: following the Gogumaiki). On the seventh day of the second month of the third year, the day Mizunoe-tora, the Naidaijin Fujiwara-no-Sanenatsu resigned as Captain of the Left Palace Guards. On the nineteenth day, the day Kinoe-tora, the Naidaijin Fujiwara-no-Sanenatsu resigned (Note: following the Kugyō Bunin). On the fourteenth day of the third month, the day Tsuchinoe-tora, the Gon Dainagon and concurrently Captain of the Right Palace Guards, Fujiwara-no-Sanetoshi, became Naidaijin (Note: following the Kugyō Bunin and the Gogumaiki). On the twenty-ninth day, the day Mizunoto-mi, the Gon Dainagon Fujiwara-no-Moroyoshi took up the post of Captain of the Left Palace Guards concurrently (Note: following the Kugyō Bunin and the Rekidai Kōki). On the seventh day of the seventh month, the day Tsuchinoto-mi, the Retired Emperor Kōgon died (Note: following the Kōin Shōunroku, the Rekidai Kōki, the Kōnendai Ryakuki, and the Gogumaiki). On the twenty-first day of the twelfth month, the day Kanoe-inu, the monks of Kōfukuji bore the sacred tree of Kasuga into the capital, protesting that the Echizen Shugo, Military Governor of Echizen, Ashikaga Takatsune, had seized Kawaguchi-no-shō, an estate belonging to the Kasuga Shrine. An order was given to move the sacred tree to Chōkōdō temple (Note: the month and day follow the Rekidai Kōki). On the tenth day of the third month of the fourth year, the day Tsuchinoe-tatsu, the former Kanpaku Tsunemichi died (Note: following the Kugyō Bunin and the Sonpi Bunmyaku). On the ninth day of the tenth month, the day Mizunoto-i, he moved to the residence of the Naidaijin Fujiwara-no-Sanetoshi, to avoid an unlucky direction. On the fourth day of the eleventh month, the day Hinoto-i, he returned to the palace (Note: following the Gogumaiki). On the sixteenth day of the third month of the fifth year, the day Tsuchinoe-inu, the palanquin of the Hachiman Shrine of Tōdaiji returned to its proper place (Note: following the Rekidai Kōki). On the twelfth day of the eighth month, the day Mizunoe-inu, the sacred tree of Kasuga returned to its proper place (Note: following the Kugyō Bunin, the Kōnendai Ryakuki, and the Taiheiki). On the twenty-third day, the day Mizunoto-tori, he moved to Chōkōdō temple at Rokujō, to avoid an unlucky direction, while the inner palace was under repair. On the twenty-fourth day, the day Kinoe-inu, he returned to the palace (Note: following the Gogumaiki). On the last day, the day Tsuchinoto-u, the Udaijin Minamoto-no-Michisuke became Daijō Daijin, the Naidaijin Fujiwara-no-Sanetoshi became Udaijin, and the Gon Dainagon and concurrently Captain of the Left Palace Guards, Fujiwara-no-Moroyoshi, became Naidaijin (Note: following the Kugyō Bunin and the Gogumaiki). On the sixteenth day of the first month of the sixth year, the day Mizunoto-mi, the Udaijin Fujiwara-no-Sanetoshi resigned as Captain of the Right Palace Guards. On the thirteenth day of the second month, the day Kanoe-saru, the Gon Dainagon Fujiwara-no-Tadamoto took up the post of Captain of the Right Palace Guards concurrently (Note: following the Kugyō Bunin). On the fourteenth day, the day Kanoto-tori, an envoy of the Yuan emperor came and asked that subjects of our land who had invaded the frontier of his be forbidden to do so (Note: following the Zenrin Kokuhōki; the Taiheiki places this in the ninth month of the fifth year). On the eighteenth day of the third month, the day Kinoe-uma, he made a progress to Chōkōdō temple, where he himself recited the Buddhist sutras and performed rites for the repose of Emperor Go-Shirakawa over three days (Note: following the Taiheiki). On the twenty-sixth day, the day Mizunoe-tora, the Naidaijin Fujiwara-no-Moroyoshi resigned as Captain of the Left Palace Guards (Note: following the Kugyō Bunin). On the twenty-ninth day, the day Kinoto-mi, a poetry gathering was held at the Seiryōden. On this same day, Tenryūji burned down (Note: following the Rekidai Kōki and the Taiheiki). On the twenty-sixth day of the fourth month, the day Mizunoe-saru, the Hyōe no Kami, Ashikaga Motouji, died (Note: following the Taiheiki and the Ashikaga Keizu). On the first day of the sixth month, the day Hinoe-uma, the former Naidaijin Fujiwara-no-Sanenatsu died (Note: following the Sonpi Bunmyaku and the Kugyō Bunin). On the twenty-ninth day, the day Kinoe-inu, the Gon Dainagon and concurrently Captain of the Right Palace Guards, Fujiwara-no-Tadamoto, moved to Captain of the Left Palace Guards (Note: following the Kugyō Bunin and the Rekidai Kōki). On the eighteenth day of the eighth month, the day Mizunoe-inu, an edict was issued commanding the three temples of Kōfukuji, Enryakuji, and Tōdaiji to perform the Saishōkō rite at the Shishinden; the monks fell to fighting among themselves in the courtyard of the hall, and the dead and wounded ran to several dozen (Note: following the Taiheiki, taking the Zoku Jinnō Shōtōki into account; the Kōnendai Ryakuki places this in the seventh month, though which is correct cannot be determined). On the twenty-seventh day, the day Kanoto-hitsuji, the Kanpaku Yoshimoto resigned, and the Sadaijin Fujiwara-no-Fuyumichi became Kanpaku. On the last day of the ninth month, the day Mizunoto-u, the Udaijin Fujiwara-no-Sanetoshi resigned, the Naidaijin Fujiwara-no-Moroyoshi became Udaijin, and the former Gon Dainagon Fujiwara-no-Sanetsugu became Naidaijin (Note: following the Kugyō Bunin). On the seventh day of the twelfth month, the day Tsuchinoto-tori, the Seii Taishōgun and Gon Dainagon, Ashikaga Yoshiakira, died (Note: following the Kugyō Bunin, the Kōnendai Ryakuki, and the Ashikaga Keizu).

¶On the seventeenth day of the second month of the first year of Ōan (1368), the day Tsuchinoe-uma, the era name was changed (Note: following the Kugyō Bunin and the Rekidai Kōki). On the eleventh day of the third month, the day Kanoto-mi, Emperor Go-Murakami died (Note: following the Kaei Sandaiki and the Kyūrei Zōjiki). On the twenty-first day, the day Kanoto-u, the Daijō Daijin Michisuke resigned (Note: following the Kugyō Bunin). In the fourth month, a comet appeared in the northeast (Note: following the Kyūrei Zōjiki). The Ninnōgyō sutra was read at the shrines and temples of the Five Home Provinces and Seven Circuits, to avert the calamity of the comet (Note: following the entry for the eleventh year of Eikyō in the Kennaiki; since this work gives no month or day, the event is provisionally placed here). On the eleventh day of the fifth month, the day Kanoe-tatsu, hail fell at Iwashimizu, each stone the size of a peach or a plum. Envoys were sent to Hōjūji temple and to Jōkongōin temple at Ōhara, to avert the calamity of this portent (Note: following the Gogumaiki, with reference to the Kyūrei Zōjiki). On the twenty-eighth day of the eighth month, the day Hinoe-saru, the monks of Enryakuji bore the four palanquins of the Hie Shrine into the capital, demanding that the mountain gate of Nanzenji temple be torn down (Note: following the Kōdaiki). On the last day of the twelfth month, the day Hinoe-saru, the Sama no Kami Ashikaga Yoshimitsu was made Seii Taishōgun (Note: following the Gogumaiki and the Gofukashin'in Kanpakuki). In the first month of the second year, hail fell at Iwashimizu, each stone the size of a citron. This was divined (Note: following the Kōnendai Ryakuki). In the third month, a woman of Madenokōji in the capital gave birth to a child whose form was like that of a three-year-old, with a lump of flesh on its head as large as the head itself (Note: following the Gogumaiki). On the twentieth day of the fourth month, the day Kinoe-tatsu, the four palanquins of the Hie Shrine again entered the capital. Sasaki Ujiyori resisted them in arms, and the monks abandoned the palanquins and fled. An order was given to move the palanquins to the Gion Shrine (Note: following the Kōdaiki, the Gogumaiki, and the Gofukashin'in Kanpakuki; the Kōnendai Ryakuki places this in the eighth month). On the third day of the eighth month, the day Kinoto-ushi, the palanquins of the Hie Shrine returned to their proper place (Note: following the Gogumaiki, the Gofukashin'in Kanpakuki, and the Rekidai Kōki; the Kōnendai Ryakuki gives the fourth day, but this is mistaken). On the second day of the ninth month, the day Kinoe-uma, a great wind blew, and the east gate of the Daijōkan-chō fell down (Note: following the Gogumaiki). On the last day of the tenth month, the day Kanoto-u, he moved to Chōkōdō temple to avoid an unlucky direction. On the first day of the eleventh month, the day Mizunoe-tatsu, he returned to the palace (Note: following the Gogumaiki and the Gofukashin'in Kanpakuki). On the fourth day, the day Kinoto-hitsuji, the Kanpaku and Sadaijin Fuyumichi resigned. The Udaijin Fujiwara-no-Moroyoshi was made Kanpaku. On the nineteenth day of the twelfth month, the day Kanoe-tatsu, the Dainagon Fujiwara-no-Kinnao resigned as Captain of the Right Palace Guards, and the Gon Chūnagon Fujiwara-no-Morotsugu took up the post of Captain of the Right Palace Guards concurrently (Note: following the Kugyō Bunin and the Rekidai Kōki). On the twenty-ninth day, the day Kinoe-tora, the palanquin of Iwashimizu returned to its proper place (Note: following the Kōnendai Ryakuki and the Gogumaiki). On the twenty-first day of the third month of the fourth year, the day Kinoto-mi, he made a progress to the Gon Chūnagon Fujiwara-no-Tadamitsu's Yanagihara residence (Note: following the Gofukashin'in Kanpakuki and the Gogumaiki). On the twenty-third day, the day Hinoto-hitsuji, he abdicated in favor of his son, Imperial Prince Ohito (Note: following the Kōin Shōunroku, the Kōnendai Ryakuki, the Gogumaiki, and the Gofukashin'in Kanpakuki). In the intercalary month he was honored with a title and called Daijō Tennō, Retired Emperor (Note: following the Kōin Shōunroku, the Kōnendai Ryakuki, and the Gofukashin'in Kanpakuki). He was called Shin'in, the New Retired Emperor, and continued even so to take part in deciding the business of government (Note: with reference to the Gofukashin'in Kanpakuki and the Zoku Jinnō Shōtōki). On the twenty-ninth day of the first month of the seventh year, the day Kinoto-hitsuji, he took the tonsure. His Buddhist name was Kōyū. On this same day he died, at the age of thirty-seven (Note: following the Kōin Shōunroku and the Kaei Sandaiki). He was cremated at Sennyūji temple, and his remains were divided and interred at the Lotus Hall at Fukakusa and at Kongōin temple; he was called the Cloistered Emperor Go-Kōgon-in (Note: following the Gofukashin'in Kanpakuki, with reference to the Kōnendai Ryakuki). The emperor had repeatedly tried to send envoys to announce his accession to the Great Shrine of Ise, but the roads were blocked and he was never able to accomplish this. The assembled courtiers discussed taking some other route to present offerings there, but in the end this too could not be achieved (Note: following the Entairyaku).

Emperor Go-En'yū

¶Emperor Go-En'yū's personal name was Ohito. He was Emperor Go-Kōgon's first son. His mother was Sūkenmon-in (Note: following the Kōin Shōunroku, the Kōnendai Ryakuki, the Kōdai Ryakki, and the Zoku Jinnō Shōtōki).

¶He was born on the thirteenth day of the twelfth month of the third year of Enbun (1358), the day Hinoto-ushi (Note: following the Kōnendai Ryakuki).

¶In the third month of the fourth year of Ōan (1371), the ceremony of first wearing the hakama was performed. On the twenty-first day, he was made an imperial prince (Note: following the Kōnendai Ryakuki and the Kōdai Ryakki). On the twenty-third day, the day Hinoto-hitsuji, he underwent his coming-of-age ceremony and received the abdicated throne, senso, at the Gon Chūnagon Fujiwara-no-Tadamitsu's Yanagihara residence. On this same day he moved to Tsuchimikado-dono (Note: following the Kōnendai Ryakuki, the Kōdai Ryakki, and the Gofukashin'in Kanpakuki). The Kanpaku and Sadaijin Moroyoshi, the Udaijin Fujiwara-no-Tadamoto, the Naidaijin Fujiwara-no-Tsuneaki, the Gon Dainagon and concurrently Captain of the Left Palace Guards, Fujiwara-no-Morotsugu, and the Gon Dainagon and concurrently Captain of the Right Palace Guards, Fujiwara-no-Kanesada, all remained in their posts (Note: following the Kugyō Bunin and the Rekidai Kōki). On the sixth day of the intercalary month, the day Tsuchinoto-hitsuji, Emperor Go-Kōgon was honored with a title and called Daijō Tennō, Retired Emperor (Note: following the Kōnendai Ryakuki and the Gofukashin'in Kanpakuki). On the fifth day of the fifth month, the day Hinoto-mi, it was divined why a villager of Iwashimizu had entered the Iwashimizu Shrine and taken his own life, staining the shrine hall with blood in the corridor (Note: following the Gogumaiki). On the eighth day, the day Kanoe-saru, because the Iwashimizu Shrine had been defiled, the business of the court was suspended for five days (Note: following the Gogumaiki and the Gofukashin'in Kanpakuki). In the seventh month, the Naidaijin Fujiwara-no-Tsuneaki resigned (Note: this work gives no date, and the matter cannot now be established). On the fourteenth day, the day Kinoe-ne, the former Daijō Daijin Michisuke died (Note: following the Kugyō Bunin). On the second day of the twelfth month, the day Kanoto-mi, the monks of Kōfukuji bore the sacred tree of Kasuga into the capital (Note: following the Rekidai Kōki and the Kōnendai Ryakuki). They demanded that the monk Jitsugen of Ichijōin, the monk Kyōshin of Daijōin, the monk Kōsai of Sanbōin, and the monk Sōroku of Kakuōin be sentenced to exile (Note: with reference to the Kasuga Shinboku Nyūrakuki and the Kaei Sandaiki). On the first day of the first month of the fifth year, the day Kanoe-inu, the emperor did not go in state to the hall for the New Year's audience, and the vocal and flute music of the Kuzu-no-Sō performance was dispensed with (Note: following the Gogumaiki). On the fifth day, the day Kinoe-tora, the conferral of court rank was suspended (Note: following the Gofukashin'in Kanpakuki). On the twenty-second day, the day Kanoto-hitsuji, the monk Jitsugen was exiled to Izu, and the monk Kyōshin to Tosa (Note: following the Gogumaiki and the Gofukashin'in Kanpakuki). In summer, on the twenty-third day of the fourth month, the day Kinoto-hitsuji, the portent at the Kamo Shrine was divined in the corridor hall (Note: following the Gofukashin'in Kanpakuki). On the second day of the ninth month, the day Kanoe-ne, a great wind blew, and the east gates of the Daijōkan-chō and of Tsuchimikado-dono fell down (Note: following the Kōnendai Ryakuki, the Gogumaiki, and the Gofukashin'in Kanpakuki; the Daijōkan-chō follows the Kanpakuki). On the twenty-eighth day, the day Hinoe-tora, Tenryūji burned down (Note: following the Rekidai Kōki, the Kyūrei Zōjiki, the Gofukashin'in Kanpakuki, and the Kaei Sandaiki). On the last day, the day Tsuchinoe-tatsu, thieves broke into the Yanagihara Palace of Shin'in, the New Retired Emperor [Go-Kōgon]. All of them were captured and beheaded (Note: following the Gogumaiki). On the thirteenth day of the eleventh month, the day Tsuchinoto-u, Akamatsu Shōjun was exiled to Kazusa (Note: the Gofukashin'in Kanpakuki gives Shimotsuke in place of Kazusa), and Akamatsu Noriaki to Echigo (Note: following the Gogumaiki and the Kaei Sandaiki). In the first month of the seventh year, smallpox spread in the capital. On the twenty-ninth day, the day Kinoto-hitsuji, Shin'in [the Retired Emperor Go-Kōgon] died. On the second day of the second month, the day Tsuchinoe-inu, Emperor Go-Kōgon was buried (Note: following the Gogumaiki, the Gofukashin'in Kanpakuki, the Kaei Sandaiki, and the Kōnendai Ryakuki). On the twentieth day of the sixth month, the day Kinoe-tora, the palanquins of the seven Hie shrines entered the capital (Note: following the Rekidai Kōki, the Gogumaiki, the Gofukashin'in Kanpakuki, and the Kaei Sandaiki). On the tenth day of the twelfth month, the day Kanoto-hitsuji, the former Sangi Taira-no-Yukitomo was exiled to Mino (Note: the Kugyō Bunin gives Harima), Giga Genki to Tōtōmi, the monk Kōsai to Harima, and Sōroku to Bitchū (Note: following the Kaei Sandaiki; the Kugyō Bunin gives the ninth day of the twelfth month). On the seventeenth day, the day Tsuchinoe-saru, the sacred tree of Kasuga returned to its proper place (Note: following the Kōnendai Ryakuki and the Kaei Sandaiki). On the twenty-eighth day, the day Tsuchinoto-hitsuji, the emperor was enthroned at the Daijōkan-chō. He was seventeen years of age at the time (Note: following the Kōnendai Ryakuki and the Kōdai Ryakki).

¶On the seventeenth day of the first month of the first year of Eiwa (1375), the day Tsuchinoe-tora, the former Sangi Taira-no-Yukitomo was recalled from Mino (Note: following the Gofukashin'in Kanpakuki). On the ninth day of the second month, the day Tsuchinoto-i, Enryakuji burned down (Note: following the Rekidai Kōki). On the twenty-seventh day, the day Hinoto-mi, the era name was changed (Note: following the Kugyō Bunin, the Kōnendai Ryakuki, the Kōdaiki, the Kyūrei Zōjiki, and the Kaei Sandaiki). On the twenty-eighth day of the tenth month, the day Kinoto-u, the purification rite, gokei, was performed (Note: following the Kōin Shōunroku, the Kōnendai Ryakuki, the Eiwa Daijōe-ki, and the Gofukashin'in Kanpakuki). On the eighteenth day of the eleventh month, the day Kinoe-inu, the Kanpaku Moroyoshi resigned as Sadaijin, the Udaijin Fujiwara-no-Tadamoto moved to Sadaijin, the Gon Dainagon and concurrently Captain of the Left Palace Guards, Fujiwara-no-Morotsugu, became Udaijin, and the Gon Dainagon Fujiwara-no-Kanetsugu became Naidaijin (Note: following the Kugyō Bunin). On the twenty-third day, the day Kinoto-u, the Daijōe, the Great Thanksgiving rite, was performed (Note: following the Rekidai Kōki, the Kōnendai Ryakuki, the Kōdai Ryakki, the Gofukashin'in Kanpakuki, and the Eiwa Daijōe-ki). On the twenty-seventh day of the twelfth month, the day Mizunoe-ne, the Kanpaku Moroyoshi resigned, and the Sadaijin Fujiwara-no-Tadamoto became Kanpaku. On the first day of the first month of the second year, the day Hinoe-tatsu, the former Kanpaku Yoshimoto became Jun Sangū. On the sixth day, the day Kanoto-tori, the Udaijin Fujiwara-no-Morotsugu resigned as Captain of the Left Palace Guards, and the Naidaijin Fujiwara-no-Kanetsugu took up the post of Captain of the Left Palace Guards concurrently (Note: following the Kugyō Bunin; this work gives no date for Morotsugu's resignation as Captain, and it is provisionally placed here on the sixth day). On the eighteenth day of the second month of the third year, the day Hinoe-tora, the Yanagihara Palace burned down (Note: following the Rekidai Kōki and the Gogumaiki). On the twenty-second day of the fifth month, the day Tsuchinoto-i, the Naidaijin Fujiwara-no-Kanetsugu resigned as Captain of the Left Palace Guards. On the twenty-seventh day of the fourth month of the fourth year, the day Tsuchinoto-mi, the Gon Dainagon and concurrently Captain of the Right Palace Guards, Fujiwara-no-Kanesada, moved to Captain of the Left Palace Guards, and the Gon Dainagon Fujiwara-no-Sanetoki took up the post of Captain of the Right Palace Guards concurrently (Note: following the Kugyō Bunin). On the last day of the seventh month, the day Kanoe-ne, the Gon Dainagon and concurrently Captain of the Left Palace Guards, Fujiwara-no-Kanesada, died (Note: following the Rekidai Kōki, the Kugyō Bunin, and the Gogumaiki). On the twenty-seventh day of the eighth month, the day Hinoto-u, the Kanpaku Tadamoto resigned as Sadaijin, the Udaijin Fujiwara-no-Morotsugu moved to Sadaijin, the Naidaijin Fujiwara-no-Kanetsugu became Udaijin, the former Gon Dainagon Fujiwara-no-Kinnao became Naidaijin, the Gon Dainagon and concurrently Captain of the Right Palace Guards, Fujiwara-no-Sanetoki, moved to Captain of the Left Palace Guards, and the Seii Taishōgun and Gon Dainagon, Ashikaga Yoshimitsu, took up the post of Captain of the Right Palace Guards concurrently (Note: following the Kugyō Bunin and the Rekidai Kōki; neither work gives a date for Tadamoto's resignation as Daijin, and it is provisionally placed here on the twenty-seventh day).

¶On the twenty-second day of the third month of the first year of Kōryaku (1379), the day Tsuchinoto-ushi, the era name was changed (Note: following the Kugyō Bunin, the Gogumaiki, and the Kaei Sandaiki). On the eighth day of the sixth month, the day Mizunoe-saru, the palanquins of the seven Hie shrines returned to their proper place (Note: following the Kaei Sandaiki). On the fourteenth day of the eighth month, the day Tsuchinoe-tora, the sacred tree of Kasuga entered the capital (Note: following the Kōnendai Ryakuki and the Gofukashin'in Kanpakuki). On the twenty-fourth day of the sixth month of the second year, the day Tsuchinoe-ne, Emperor Kōmyō died (Note: following the Kōin Shōunroku, the Rekidai Kōki, the Kōnendai Ryakuki, the Kōdai Ryakki, and the Kaei Sandaiki; none of the sources record the day of his burial). On the fifteenth day of the twelfth month, the day Mizunoe-saru, the sacred tree of Kasuga returned to its proper place (Note: following the Kōnendai Ryakuki and the Kaei Sandaiki).

¶On the twenty-fourth day of the second month of the first year of Eitoku (1381), the day Kanoe-tatsu, the era name was changed (Note: following the Kōnendai Ryakuki, the Kugyō Bunin, and the Genpi Betsuroku). On the twenty-third day of the seventh month, the day Hinoe-uma, the Jun Sangū Yoshimoto became Daijō Daijin, and the Naidaijin Fujiwara-no-Kinnao resigned (Note: this work gives no date for Kinnao's resignation as Daijin, and it is provisionally placed here). The Seii Taishōgun, Gon Dainagon, and concurrently Captain of the Right Palace Guards, Ashikaga Yoshimitsu, became Naidaijin. On the fourth day of the ninth month, the day Hinoe-inu, the former Gon Dainagon Fujiwara-no-Kanetsuna became Jun Daijin, Associate Minister. On the fifth day, the day Hinoto-i, the Jun Daijin Fujiwara-no-Kanetsuna resigned. On the twenty-sixth day, the day Tsuchinoe-saru, the former Jun Daijin Fujiwara-no-Kanetsuna died, and the business of the court was suspended for three days (Note: following the Kugyō Bunin). On the eleventh day of the fourth month of the second year, the day Kanoe-tora, he made a progress to the Kitanakazono residence of Jimyōin, and abdicated in favor of his son, Imperial Prince Motohito. He was honored with a title and called Daijō Tennō, Retired Emperor (Note: following the Kōnendai Ryakuki), and was called Shin'in, the New Retired Emperor (Note: following the Rekidai Kōki and the Gogumaiki). On that same day, the day Kanoe-tora, the Kanpaku Morotsugu resigned (Note: following the Kugyō Bunin).

¶On the twenty-sixth day of the fourth month of the fourth year of Meitoku (1393), the day Kanoto-ushi, he died at the Ogawa residence of the late Naidaijin Fujiwara-no-Tsuneaki, at the age of thirty-six. He was cremated at Sennyūji temple, and his remains were interred at the Lotus Hall at Fukakusa; by his own testamentary edict he was called Go-En'yū-in (Note: following the Kōnendai Ryakuki).

Emperor Go-Komatsu

¶He was Emperor Go-En'yū's eldest son. His mother was Tsūyōmon-in (Note: following the Kōin Shōunroku, the Kōdai Ryakki, and the Kōnendai Ryakuki).

¶He was born on the twenty-sixth day of the sixth month of the second year of Eiwa (1376), the day Mizunoe-saru (Note: following the Kōin Shōunroku and the Kōnendai Ryakuki).

¶In the fourth month of the second year of Eitoku (1382), the ceremony of first wearing the hakama was performed (Note: the Kōdai Ryakki states that he was made an imperial prince on the third day of the fourth month, but the Kōnendai Ryakuki states that he was not made an imperial prince; this is accordingly not adopted here). On the eleventh day, the day Kanoe-tora, he received the abdicated throne, senso, at Tsuchimikado-dono (Note: following the Kōnendai Ryakuki and the Kōdai Ryakki). The Daijō Daijin Yoshimoto was made Sesshō, Regent, and the Seii Taishōgun, Sadaijin, and concurrently Captain of the Right Palace Guards, Ashikaga Yoshimitsu; the Udaijin Fujiwara-no-Kanetsugu; and the Naidaijin and concurrently Captain of the Left Palace Guards, Fujiwara-no-Sanetoki, all remained in their posts (Note: following the Kugyō Bunin and the Rekidai Kōki). On the nineteenth day, the day Tsuchinoe-inu, the former Gon Dainagon Fujiwara-no-Nakafusa became Jun Daijin (Note: following the Kugyō Bunin). On the twenty-fifth day, the day Kinoe-tatsu, Emperor Go-En'yū was honored with a title and called Daijō Tennō, Retired Emperor (Note: following the Kōin Shōunroku, the Rekidai Kōki, and the Kōnendai Ryakuki; the Kōdai Ryakki gives the twenty-eighth day). On the twenty-eighth day of the twelfth month, the day Mizunoe-tora, the emperor was enthroned at the Daijōkan-chō. He was six years of age at the time (Note: following the Rekidai Kōki and the Kōnendai Ryakuki). This year corresponded to the second year of Kōwa (1382) in Emperor Go-Kameyama's reign. On the fifth day of the third month of the third year, the day Tsuchinoto-tori, because of the fire at the Iwashimizu Shrine, an envoy was sent to Usa (Note: following the Gogumaiki). On the twenty-second day of the tenth month, the day Mizunoe-tatsu, the purification rite, gokei, was performed. On the sixteenth day of the eleventh month, the day Kinoto-u, the Daijōe, the Great Thanksgiving rite, was performed (Note: following the Kōin Shōunroku, the Rekidai Kōki, and the Kōnendai Ryakuki). In the twelfth month, the Gon Chūnagon Fujiwara-no-Tameshige compiled and presented the Shin Goshūi Wakashū (Note: following the Shūgaishō).

¶On the twenty-seventh day of the second month of the first year of Shitoku (1384), the day Kinoto-hitsuji, the era name was changed (Note: following the Rekidai Kōki, the Kōnendai Ryakuki, and the Kugyō Bunin). On the tenth day of the third month, the day Tsuchinoe-saru, the Sadaijin Ashikaga Yoshimitsu resigned as Captain of the Right Palace Guards. On the twenty-third day, the day Kanoto-tori, the Naidaijin Fujiwara-no-Sanetoki resigned as Captain of the Left Palace Guards, the Gon Dainagon Fujiwara-no-Tsunetsugu took up the post of Captain of the Left Palace Guards concurrently, and the Gon Dainagon Minamoto-no-Tomomichi took up the post of Captain of the Right Palace Guards concurrently (Note: following the Kugyō Bunin). On the fifteenth day of the second month of the second year, the day Hinoto-hitsuji, thieves killed the former Gon Chūnagon Fujiwara-no-Tameshige (Note: following the Kugyō Bunin and the Shūgaishō).

¶On the third day of the first month of the first year of Kakei (1387), the day Kinoto-u, the emperor underwent his coming-of-age ceremony, genpuku (Note: following the Kōin Shōunroku, the Kugyō Bunin, the Kōnendai Ryakuki, and the Kōdai Ryakki). On the eighth day, the day Kanoe-saru, the Sesshō and Daijō Daijin Yoshimoto resigned (Note: following the Kugyō Bunin and the Rekidai Kōki; the Kugyō Bunin gives no date for his resignation as Sesshō, and the Rekidai Kōki gives the first month without a day; the event is provisionally placed here, following the date both works give for his resignation as Daijō Daijin). On the seventh day of the second month, the day Tsuchinoe-ne, the Udaijin Fujiwara-no-Kanetsugu was made Sesshō (Note: following the Kugyō Bunin; the Rekidai Kōki gives the fourth day). On the twenty-third day of the eighth month, the day Kinoe-inu, the era name was changed (Note: following the Kōnendai Ryakuki and the Kugyō Bunin). On the eighth day of the twelfth month, the day Kinoe-tora, the former Gon Dainagon Minamoto-no-Yoshinari became Jun Daijin (Note: following the Kugyō Bunin). On the twenty-sixth day of the third month of the second year, the day Kanoe-ne, the Sesshō and Udaijin Kanetsugu died. On the eighth day of the fourth month, the day Kinoto-ushi, the former Daijō Daijin Yoshimoto was made Sesshō. On the twenty-sixth day of the fifth month, the day Tsuchinoto-i, the Seii Taishōgun Ashikaga Yoshimitsu resigned as Sadaijin, the Naidaijin Fujiwara-no-Sanetoki became Sadaijin, the Gon Dainagon and concurrently Captain of the Right Palace Guards, Minamoto-no-Tomomichi, became Udaijin, and the Gon Dainagon and concurrently Captain of the Left Palace Guards, Fujiwara-no-Tsunetsugu, became Naidaijin (Note: following the Kugyō Bunin and the Rekidai Kōki). On the second day of the sixth month, the day Kinoe-tatsu, the Jun Daijin Fujiwara-no-Nakafusa died (Note: following the Kugyō Bunin). On the twelfth day, the day Kinoe-tora, the Sesshō Yoshimoto resigned, and Fujiwara-no-Morotsugu was made Kanpaku. On the thirteenth day, the day Kinoto-u, the former Sesshō Yoshimoto died.

¶On the fifth day of the first month of the first year of Kōō (1389), the day Kinoto-i, the Udaijin Minamoto-no-Tomomichi resigned as Captain of the Right Palace Guards (Note: following the Rekidai Kōki; the Kugyō Bunin places Tomomichi's resignation as Captain in the second month). On the ninth day of the second month, the day Tsuchinoto-tori, the era name was changed (Note: following the Kugyō Bunin, the Kōnendai Ryakuki, and the Tōji Chōja Bunin). On the twentieth day of the fourth month, the day Tsuchinoto-hitsuji, the Gon Dainagon Fujiwara-no-Munezane took up the post of Captain of the Right Palace Guards concurrently (Note: following the Kugyō Bunin and the Rekidai Kōki).

¶On the twenty-sixth day of the third month of the first year of Meitoku (1390), the day Kanoe-tora, the era name was changed (Note: following the Kugyō Bunin, the Kōnendai Ryakuki, and the Kōdai Ryakki). On the first day of the fourth month, the day Mizunoto-i, the Naidaijin Fujiwara-no-Tsunetsugu resigned as Captain of the Left Palace Guards, the Gon Dainagon Fujiwara-no-Munezane resigned as Captain of the Right Palace Guards, the Gon Dainagon Fujiwara-no-Sanenao took up the post of Captain of the Left Palace Guards concurrently, and the Gon Dainagon Fujiwara-no-Michisada took up the post of Captain of the Right Palace Guards concurrently (Note: following the Kugyō Bunin). In the third year (1392), the former Sadaijin and Seii Taishōgun, Ashikaga Yoshimitsu, sent Ōuchi Yoshihiro to the temporary palace at Yoshino to negotiate peace (Note: following the Ōei-ki). On the twenty-eighth day of the tenth month, the day Hinoe-ne, Emperor Go-Kameyama took up the three sacred regalia and set out from the temporary palace. On the second day of the intercalary month, the day Tsuchinoto-u, Emperor Go-Kameyama returned to the capital and entered Daikakuji temple (Note: following the Rekidai Kōki, the Kōnendai Ryakuki, and the Zoku Jinnō Shōtōki).