Editing Emperor Sukō

{{Short description|Japanese Northern Emperor from 1348 to 1351}}
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{{Infobox royalty
| name         = Emperor Sukō<br>{{nobold|{{lang|ja|崇光天皇}}}}
| succession   = 3rd [[Northern Court|Northern Emperor]]
| image        = Emperor Sukō by Kōtarō Miyake.jpg
| caption      = 
| reign        = 18 November 1348 – 26 November 1351
| coronation   = 3 February 1350
| cor-type     = Japan
| predecessor  = [[Emperor Kōmyō|Kōmyō]]
| successor    = [[Emperor Go-Kōgon|Go-Kōgon]]
| posthumous name = [[Posthumous name#Tsuigō|''Tsuigō'']]:<br/>Emperor Sukō ({{lang|ja|崇光院}} or {{lang|ja|崇光天皇}})
| spouse       = 
| issue        = See [[Emperor Sukō#Genealogy|list]]
| royal house  = [[Imperial House of Japan]]
| father       = [[Emperor Kōgon]]
| mother       = {{ill|Sanjō Shūshi|ja|正親町三条秀子|vertical-align=sup}}
| birth_date   = 25 May 1334
| birth_place  = 
| death_date   = {{death date and age|1398|1|31|1334|5|25|df=yes}}
| death_place  = 
| place of burial = ''Daikōmyō-ji no Misasagi'' (大光明寺陵)|
}}

{{nihongo|'''Emperor Sukō'''|崇光天皇| ''Sukō Tennō''}} (25 May 1334 – 31 January 1398) was the third of the [[Northern Court (Japan)|Emperors of Northern Court]] during the [[Nanboku-cho|Period of the Northern and Southern Courts]] in Japan. According to pre-[[Meiji period|Meiji]] scholars, his reign spanned the years from 1348 through 1351.<ref>Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). ''Annales des empereurs du japon'', pp. 296–301.</ref>

==Genealogy==
His personal name was originally '''Masuhito''' (益仁), but was later changed to '''Okihito''' (興仁).

His father was [[Emperor Kogon|Emperor Kōgon]].  His predecessor, [[Emperor Kōmyō]] was his uncle, the younger brother of Emperor Kōgon.

*Lady-in-waiting: Niwata (Minamoto) Motoko (庭田（源）資子; d.1394), Niwata Shigemoto's daughter
**First son: [[Imperial Prince Fushimi Yoshihito|Imperial Prince Fushimi-no-miya Yoshihito]] (1351–1416; 伏見宮栄仁親王) (Founder of [[Fushimi-no-miya]] house, collateral branch of the Imperial Family and included in the [[Succession to the Japanese throne]] until 1947)
**Second son: Imperial Prince Priest Koshin (1358–1391; 興信法親王)
*Court Lady: Anfuku-dono-Naishi (安福殿女御)
*Consort: Sanjō-no-Tsubone (三条局)
**First daughter: Princess Suiho (瑞宝女王)
**Third son: Imperial Prince Priest Kojo (弘助法親王)

==Events of Sukō's life==
Sukō occupied the [[Chrysanthemum Throne]] from 18 November 1348 until 22 November 1351.<ref name=Sansom2>{{Cite book |last=Sansom |first=George |title=A History of Japan, 1334-1615 |publisher=Stanford University Press |year=1961 |isbn=0804705259 |page=82,86}}</ref>

In 1348, he became [[Crown Prince]].  In the same year, he became Northern Emperor upon the abdication of [[Emperor Kōmyō]].  Although [[Emperor Kōgon]] ruled as a [[Cloistered rule|cloistered Emperor]], the rivalry between [[Ashikaga Takauji]] and [[Ashikaga Tadayoshi]] began, and in 1351, Takauji returned to the allegiance of the Southern Court, forcing Emperor Sukō to abdicate.  This was intended to reunify the Imperial Line.

However, the peace soon fell apart, and in April 1352, the Southern Dynasty evacuated Kyoto, abducting with them Retired (Northern) Emperors Emperor Kōgon and Emperor Kōmyō as well as Emperor Sukō and the Crown Prince Tadahito.  Because of this, Takauji made [[Emperor Kōgon]]'s second son Imperial Prince Iyahito emperor (First Fushimi-no-miya).<ref name=Sansom2/>{{rp|88,93}}

Returning to Kyoto in 1357, Emperor Sukō's son Imperial Prince Yoshihito began to work with the [[Ashikaga shogunate|Bakufu]] to be named Crown Prince, but the Bakufu instead decided to make Emperor Go-Kōgon's son (the future [[Emperor Go-En'yū]]) Crown Prince instead.

In 1398, Emperor Sukō died.  But, 30 years after his death, in 1428, his great-grandson Hikohito (彦仁), as the adopted son of [[Emperor Shōkō]], became [[Emperor Go-Hanazono]], fulfilling Sukō's dearest wish. Sukō is enshrined at the ''Daikōmyōji no misasagi'' (大光明寺陵) in [[Fushimi-ku, Kyoto]].

==Eras during his reign==
:'''''Nanboku-chō'' Southern court'''
*Eras as reckoned by legitimate Court (as determined by Meiji rescript)
** ''[[Shōhei]]''

:'''''Nanboku-chō'' Northern court'''
*Eras as reckoned by pretender Court (as determined by Meiji rescript)
** ''[[Jōwa (Muromachi period)|Jōwa]]''
** ''[[Kan'o|Kan'ō]]''

==Southern Court rivals==
*[[Emperor Go-Murakami]]

==Ancestry==
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|1= 1. '''Emperor Sukō'''
|2= 2. [[Emperor Kōgon]] (1313–1364)
|3= 3. [[:ja:正親町三条秀子|Ōgimachisanjō Hideko]] (1311–1353)
|4= 4. [[Emperor Go-Fushimi]] (1288–1336)
|5= 5. [[:ja:西園寺寧子|Saionji Neishi/Yasuko]] (1292–1357)
|6= 6. [[:ja:正親町三条公秀|Ōgimachisanjō Kinhide]] (1285–1363)
|7= 
|8= 8. [[Emperor Fushimi]] (1265–1317)
|9= 9. [[:ja:五辻経子|Itsutsuji Tsuneko]] (d. 1324)
|10= 10. [[:ja:西園寺公衡|Saionji Kinhira]] (1264–1315)
|11= 11.Fujiwara Kaneko 
|12=12.[[:ja:正親町三条実躬|Ōgimachisanjō Sanemi]] (1264-?)
|13=13. Seikai
|14=
|15=
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==See also==
* [[Emperor of Japan]]
* [[List of Emperors of Japan]]
* [[Imperial cult]]

==Notes==
[[File:Imperial Seal of Japan.svg|thumb|right|120px|[[Imperial Seal of Japan|Japanese Imperial kamon]] — a stylized [[chrysanthemum]] blossom]]
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==References==
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* [[Richard Ponsonby-Fane|Ponsonby-Fane]], Richard Arthur Brabazon. (1959). [https://books.google.com/books?id=SLAeAAAAMAAJ&q=The+Imperial+House+of+Japan  ''The Imperial House of Japan.''] Kyoto: Ponsonby Memorial Society. {{OCLC|194887}}
* [[Isaac Titsingh|Titsingh]], Isaac, ed. (1834). [Siyun-sai Rin-siyo/[[Hayashi Gahō]], 1652], ''[[Nipon o daï itsi ran]]''; ou, [https://books.google.com/books?id=18oNAAAAIAAJ&q=nipon+o+dai+itsi+ran ''Annales des empereurs du Japon.'']  Paris: [[Royal Asiatic Society|Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain and Ireland]].
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