Genkō Rebellion

Japanese: 元弘の乱 - げんこうのらん

A coup d'état to overthrow the Kamakura Shogunate planned by Emperor Go-Daigo in 1331. After failing in the Shochu Incident (1324), the Emperor plotted to overthrow the Shogunate again. The Rokuhara Tandai discovered this plan in advance, and participants Hino Toshiki and the monk Enkan were captured. The Emperor fled to Kasagiyama in August of the same year, but was transferred to Rokuhara the following year and exiled to Oki. On April 27 of that year, the Shogunate changed the era name to Shokei and supported Emperor Kogon. Kusunoki Masashige and his men responded to Emperor Go-Daigo's uprising and fought the Shogunate forces at Akasaka Castle, and when it fell, they barricaded themselves in Chihaya Castle, harassing the Shogunate's large army. In the third year of the Genkō era (33), Emperor Go-Daigo escaped from Oki, and Ashikaga Takauji, Nitta Yoshisada and others rose up in arms, which led to the downfall of the Kamakura shogunate.

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Japanese:

元弘1＝元徳3 (1331) 年後醍醐天皇が計画した鎌倉幕府討滅クーデター。正中の変 (1324) に失敗した天皇は，再び討幕を企てた。この計画は事前に六波羅探題の察知するところとなり，参画者日野俊基，僧円観らは捕えられ，天皇は元弘1＝元徳3年8月笠置山に逃れ籠城したが，翌年六波羅に遷され隠岐に流された。幕府はこの年の4月 27日，正慶と改元し，光厳天皇を擁立した。後醍醐天皇の挙兵に応じた楠木正成らは，赤坂城によって幕府軍と戦い，落城すると千早城に籠城して幕府の大軍を悩ました。元弘3＝正慶2 (33) 年，後醍醐天皇が隠岐を脱出すると，足利尊氏，新田義貞らも挙兵して，鎌倉幕府は滅びるにいたった。

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