Kenmu Restoration

Kenmu Restoration

History of Japan
Emperor Go-Daigo,
Gekko Ogata 1890.
Periods
Paleolithic pre–14,000 BCE
Jōmon 14,000–300 BCE
Yayoi to 250 CE
Kofun 250–538
Asuka 538–710
Nara 710–794
Heian 794–1185
Kamakura 1185–1333
Kenmu restoration 1333–1336
Muromachi (Ashikaga) 1336–1573
Nanboku-chō 1336–1392
Sengoku 1467–1573
Azuchi–Momoyama 1568–1603
Nanban trade
Edo (Tokugawa) 1603–1868
Bakumatsu
Meiji 1868–1912
Restoration
Taishō 1912–1926
World War I
Shōwa 1926–1989
Financial crisis
Militarism
Occupation
Post-occupation
Heisei 1989–present
Lost Decade
Topics
Empire of Japan 1868–1945
Postwar Japan 1945–present
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The Kenmu (or Kemmu) restoration (建武の新政, Kenmu no shinsei?) (1333–1336) is the name given to both the three-year period of Japanese history between the Kamakura period and the Muromachi period, and the political events that took place in it. The restoration was an effort made by Emperor Go-Daigo to bring the Imperial House and the nobility it represented back into power, thus restoring a civilian government after almost a century and a half of military rule. The attempted restoration ultimately failed and was replaced by the Ashikaga shogunate (1336–1575). This was to be the last time the Emperor had any power until the Meiji restoration of 1867. The many and serious political errors made by the Imperial House during this three-year period were to have important repercussions in the following decades and end with the rise to power of the Ashikaga dynasty.

Read more about Kenmu Restoration:  Background, Objectives of The Restoration, Failure of Go-Daigo's Policies, The Rise of The Ashikaga Brothers, Prince Morinaga, Civil War, Calendrical Peculiarities of The Era

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