Emperor Go-Toba

Posthumous name
	Tsuigō:; Emperor Go-Toba (後鳥羽院 or 後鳥羽天皇)

Emperor Go-Toba
後鳥羽天皇
Emperor Go-Toba; 後鳥羽天皇
	Portrait by Fujiwara no Nobuzane, 1221
Emperor of Japan
Reign	September 8, 1183 – February 18, 1198
Coronation	September 4, 1184
Predecessor	Antoku
Successor	Tsuchimikado
Shōgun	Minamoto no Yoritomo
Born	August 6, 1180; Gojō-machi no Tei (五条町の亭), Heian-kyō
Died	March 28, 1239 (aged 58); Karita Gosho (苅田御所), Oki Islands, Kamakura shogunate
Burial	Ōhara no Misasagi (大原陵) (Kyōto)
Spouse	Fujiwara no Ninshi (m. 1190)
Issue; more...	Princess Shōshi; Emperor Tsuchimikado; Emperor Juntoku; Prince Masanari;
Posthumous name
Posthumous name
	Tsuigō:; Emperor Go-Toba (後鳥羽院 or 後鳥羽天皇)
House	Yamato
Father	Emperor Takakura
Mother	Fujiwara no Shokushi (Shichijō-in)

Emperor Go-Toba (後鳥羽天皇, Go-Toba-tennō, August 6, 1180 – March 28, 1239) was the 82nd emperor of Japan, according to the traditional order of succession. His reign spanned the years from 1183 through 1198.^[1]

This 12th-century sovereign was named after Emperor Toba, and go- (後), translates literally as "later"; and thus, he is sometimes called the "Later Emperor Toba". The Japanese word go has also been translated to mean the "second one"; and in some older sources, this emperor may be identified as "Toba the Second" or as "Toba II".

^ Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). Annales des empereurs du Japon, pp. 207–221; Brown, Delmer et al. (1979). Gukanshō, pp. 334–339; Varley, H. Paul. (1980). Jinnō Shōtōki. pp. 215–220.

[1] Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). Annales des empereurs du Japon, pp. 207–221; Brown, Delmer et al. (1979). Gukanshō, pp. 334–339; Varley, H. Paul. (1980). Jinnō Shōtōki. pp. 215–220.

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