Editing Shogun (section)

=== Kenmu Restoration (1333–1336)===
Around 1334–1336, [[Ashikaga Takauji]] helped Emperor Go-Daigo regain his throne in the [[Kenmu Restoration]].<ref name="sansom">{{cite book |title=A History of Japan, 1134–1615 |first=George |last=Sansom |url=http://www.gotterdammerung.org/books/reviews/h/history-of-japan-1334-1615.html |year=1961 |location=United States |publisher=Stanford University Press}}</ref>

Emperor Go-Daigo rejected [[cloistered rule]] and the shogunate and abolished the ''[[Sesshō and Kampaku|sesshō]]'' and ''[[Sesshō and Kampaku|kampaku]]'' in favour of an emperor-led government. He also began building a new palace and established four new administrative bodies. However, the nobles who had long been out of politics and the newly appointed samurai were unfamiliar with administrative practices, and the court was unable to handle the drastic increase in lawsuits. Emperor Go-Daigo gave high positions and rewards only to the nobles, and the warriors began to swear allegiance to Ashikaga Takauji, who was willing to give up his personal fortune to give them such rewards.<ref name="touken"/>

During the Kenmu Restoration, after the fall of the Kamakura shogunate in 1333, another short-lived shogun arose. [[Prince Moriyoshi]] (Morinaga), son of Go-Daigo, was awarded the title of ''sei-i taishōgun''. However, Prince Moriyoshi was later put under [[house arrest]] and, in 1335, killed by [[Ashikaga Tadayoshi]].

Emperor Go-daigo did not like the growing fame of Ashikaga Takauji and ordered Nitta Yoshisada and others to defeat Ashikaga Takauji. In response, Takauji led a group of samurai against the new government and defeated the imperial court forces. This ended Emperor Go-Daigo's new regime in 1336 after only two years.<ref name="touken"/><ref name="sansom" />