Minoru Shinoda
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Emeritus Professor of History, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu. Author of The Founding of the Kamakura Shogunate 1180β1185.
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Go-Daigo was the emperor of Japan (1318β39), whose efforts to overthrow the shogunate and restore the monarchy led to civil war and divided the imperial family into two rival factions. Takaharu ascended the throne at a time when the nation was in one of the more turbulent periods of its history.β¦
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