Kemmu Restoration

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Kemmu Restoration

Japanese history

Also known as: Kemmu no Chūkō

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Japan
The Kemmu Restoration and the dual dynasties
…1333 is known as the Kemmu Restoration. The emperor immediately set about to restore direct imperial rule. He abolished the powerful office of kampaku and set up a central bureaucracy. He revived the Records Office (Kirokusho) to settle lawsuits in the provinces and established the Court of Miscellaneous Claims (Zassho…
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…1333 is known as the Kemmu Restoration. The emperor immediately set about to restore direct imperial rule. He abolished the powerful office of kampaku and set up a central bureaucracy. He revived the Records Office (Kirokusho) to settle lawsuits in the provinces and established the Court of Miscellaneous Claims (Zassho…
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Go-Daigo
Overthrow of the shogunate.
…for having made possible the “Kemmu restoration,” as this series of events is known, he failed to show it. He neither rewarded them nor brought them into his new government, except for Takauji, who was given some lands and the comparatively low rank of counsellor. Takauji expected to be designated…
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…for having made possible the “Kemmu restoration,” as this series of events is known, he failed to show it. He neither rewarded them nor brought them into his new government, except for Takauji, who was given some lands and the comparatively low rank of counsellor. Takauji expected to be designated…
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