Ashikaga Takauji led a successful rebellion and seized Kyoto.
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He led his army into the Imperial camp and took part in the successful attack on Kyoto that ended the Shogunate's power in the west. Go-Daigo hoped that the monks would win a victory that would encourage nearby warriors to join his cause, giving him a chance against the Shogunate.Go-Daigo was born in 1288 and was the son of the Emperor Go-Uda. The Bakufu responded with surprising moderation at this point, accepting the Emperor's denial of involvement and only inflicting light punishments. The Shogunate forced the two branches to accept a compromise, with the throne alternating between the two. This Kemmu Restoration was short-lived. Earlier in the year Nitta Yoshisada had received a mandate to rebel from Go-Daigo (dated to February 1333 and received on the eleventh day of the third month, 24 April 1333). The second was to head towards Akasaka and Kusunoki. He raised his banner on the 8th day of the 5th month (20 June 1333) at the shrine at Ikushina. Morinaga's role was to gain the support of the powerful warrior monks of Mount Hiei and to gather intelligence for his father. The Bakufu would attack Mount Hiei, provoking its warrior monks. He committed suicide during a siege in 1338. He decided to get in contact with Go-Daigo as he approached Kyoto and an Imperial mandate reached him before he reached Kyoto. The formal offices of the cloister system were taken over by Imperial appointees and new advisory councils were created.
This date marked the foundation of the Kamakura Shogunate (or Kamakura Bakufu), named after Yoritomo's base at the city of Kamakura. His first destination was the Todaiji temple at Nara, but although he found some support there he also found supporters of the Bakufu, and so was forced to move on. Akamatsu Norimura in Harima was greatly encouraged by the failure of the Shogunate, and his revolt became much more serious. Genkō is the name of the Japanese era corresponding to the period 1331-1334. Go-Fukakusa founded the senior line of the Imperial family, Kameyama founded the junior line. During 1332 resistance to the Bakufu rumbled on. They wasted the next two days, and on the evening of the 24th day (26 September) Prince Morinaga discovered their orders and sent a message to the Emperor. The Genko War (1331-33) was a struggle between the supporters of the Emperor Go-Daigo and the Kamakura Shogunate which ended as an Imperial victory and led to the short-lived Kemmu restoration, the only period in which the Emperor held direct power between 1192 and the fall of the Tokugawa Shogunate in the nineteenth century.Although Japan was officially ruled by a line of emperors who claimed descent from the sun goddess, real power lay with the Shogunate. He had also just lost his father and was suffering from an illness. This began with Go-Saga, who reigned from 1242 to 1246 when he abdicated. They agreed with the prince and the Emperor escaped from Kyoto, slipping past the Bakufu's guards at the gates by pretending to be an Imperial Princess on a normal journey.
Go-Daigo attempted to raise enough support to seize the Rokuhara, but before he could move the Bakufu sent a force to Kyoto and arrested a number of his key supporters. In early May he escaped from captivity in a litter, passing himself off as a pregnant lady. The two courts then used different eras until the end of the Southern and Northern courts period in 1392.Go-Daigo thus had a period of ten years, between the abolition of cloister rule in 1321 and the outbreak of civil war in 1331 to try and reform the Imperial government.
There was a delay while the Bakufu attempted to get their hands on the genuine Imperial regalia, but Prince Kazuhito was enthroned in 1332. He was followed by his fourth son, Emperor Go-Fukakusa. On the 26th day of the eighth month he moved north-east to Mount Juba at Watsuka, but this was too remote and so on the following the day the Emperor and his party moved south to Mount Kasagi. After the death of the last Minamoto shogun a series of figurehead shoguns were appointed, the first two from the Kujo family and the last four from the Imperial family.
In 1272 Go-Saga died, and in 1274 Kameyama abdicated in favour of his son.
These rebel successes convinced the Bakufu that they needed to send more men to Kyoto.
He soon made it clear that he wasn't going to abdicate after a short reign, and prepared to resist the Shogunate.
A victory at Mount Hiei would encourage support for the Emperor and perhaps allow him to return to Kyoto and seize control of the city. At about the same time Doi Jiro and Tokuno Yasaburo rose in support of the Emperor on Skikoku and defeated a Shogunate army sent from Nagato (The vast Bakufu army achieved some early successes. å¹´) and his family, raising an army at Funagami Mountain in HÅki Province (the modern town of Kotoura in TÅhaku District, Tottori Prefecture).Meanwhile, Ashikaga Takauji, the chief general of the HÅjÅ family, turned against the HÅjÅ and fought for the Emperor in the hopes of being named shogun. On the night of the 23rd day of the 3rd month he headed to the coast (7-8 May 1333). At the same time Go-Daigo and his supporters began to prepare for an open break with the Shogunate. Crucially he soon lost the support of Ashikaga Takauji.