Emperor Go-Komatsu

Posthumous name
	Tsuigō:; Emperor Go-Komatsu (後小松院 or 後小松天皇)

Emperor Go-Komatsu
後小松天皇
Emperor Go-Komatsu; 後小松天皇
Emperor of Japan
Reign	19 November 1392 – 5 October 1412
Predecessor	Go-Kameyama
Successor	Shōkō
Shōgun	Ashikaga Yoshimitsu; Ashikaga Yoshimochi
6th Northern Emperor
Reign	24 May 1382 – 19 November 1392
Enthronement	31 January 1383
Predecessor	Go-En'yū
Successor	None
Born	Motohito (幹仁); 1 August 1377
Died	1 December 1433 (aged 56)
Burial	Fukakusa no kita no Misasagi (深草北陵) (Kyoto)
Issue; more...	Ikkyū Sōjun; Emperor Shōkō
Posthumous name
Posthumous name
	Tsuigō:; Emperor Go-Komatsu (後小松院 or 後小松天皇)
House	Imperial House of Japan
Father	Emperor Go-En'yū
Mother	Sanjō Itsuko
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Emperor Go-Komatsu (後小松天皇, Go-Komatsu-tennō, 1 August 1377 – 1 December 1433) was the 100th emperor of Japan, according to the traditional order of succession,^[1] and the sixth and final Emperor of the Northern Court.

He is officially considered to have been the Northern pretender from 24 May 1382 to 21 October 1392, when upon Emperor Go-Kameyama's abdication, Go-Komatsu is understood to have been a legitimate emperor (the 100th sovereign) from that date. In 1392, following the post-Nanboku-chō unification of the two formerly contending courts, the Southern Emperor Emperor Go-Kameyama reached an agreement with Go-Komatsu to alternate control of the throne between the Northern and Southern courts on a ten-year plan which effectively signaled the end of the southern court's claims to sovereignty. However, Go-Komatsu reneged, not only ruling for 20 years until his own abdication on 5 October 1412, but was succeeded by his own son, rather than by one from the former Southern Court. According to pre-Meiji scholars, Go-Komatsu's reign as a legitimate emperor spanned the years from 1392 through 1412.^[2] The present Japanese Imperial Family is descended from the three Northern Court emperors.

This Nanboku-chō "sovereign" was named after the 9th-century Emperor Kōkō, and go- (後), translates literally as "later." Jien's Gukanshō explains that Kōkō was called "the Emperor of Komatsu".^[3] The 14th-century pretender and emperor may be called the "later Emperor Kōkō" or the "later Emperor Komatsu". The Japanese word go has also been translated to mean the "second one;" and in some older sources, this would-be emperor may be identified as "Komatsu, the second", or as "Komatsu II."

^ Imperial Household Agency (Kunaichō): 後小松天皇 (100); retrieved 2013-8-28.
^ Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). Annales des empereurs du japon, pp. 317–327.
^ Brown, Delmer M. (1979). Gukanshō, p. 289; excerpt, "Koko's personal name was Tokiayasu, and he was called the 'Emperor of Komatsu'. He received the throne on the 4th day of the 1st month of 884 ...."

[kunaicho-1] Imperial Household Agency (Kunaichō): 後小松天皇 (100); retrieved 2013-8-28.

[2] Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). Annales des empereurs du japon, pp. 317–327.

[3] Brown, Delmer M. (1979). Gukanshō, p. 289; excerpt, "Koko's personal name was Tokiayasu, and he was called the 'Emperor of Komatsu'. He received the throne on the 4th day of the 1st month of 884 ...."

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