Editing Emperor Go-Uda (section)

==Events of Go-Uda's life==
Yohito''-shinnō'' became crown prince in 1268.  According to the terms of the late emperor's will (Go-Saga died in 1272), in 1274, he would become emperor upon the death or abdication of [[Emperor Kameyama]].

* '''6 March 1274''' (''[[Bun'ei]] 11, 26th day of the 1st month''): In the 15th year of Kameyama''-tennō''{{'}}s reign (亀山天皇十五年), the emperor abdicated; and the succession (''senso'') was received by his cousin.<ref>Titsingh, p. 261; Varley, p. 44; a distinct act of ''senso'' is unrecognized prior to [[Emperor Tenji]]; and all sovereigns except [[Empress Jitō|Jitō]], [[Emperor Yōzei|Yōzei]], [[Emperor Go-Toba|Go-Toba]], and [[Emperor Fushimi|Fushimi]] have ''senso'' and ''sokui'' in the same year until the reign of [[Emperor Go-Murakami]].</ref>
* '''4 May 1274''' (''Bun'ei 11, 26th day of the 3rd month''):  Emperor Go-Uda is said to have acceded to the throne (''sokui'').<ref>Titsingh, p. 262; Varley, p. 44.</ref>

The retired Emperor Kameyama continued to exercise power as [[Cloistered rule|cloistered emperor]].

During his reign, the unsuccessful [[Mongol invasions of Japan]] occurred, first in 1274 and again in 1281. Though they established a [[beachhead]] at [[Hakata-ku, Fukuoka|Hakata]], [[Kyushu]], they were driven out within a short time by army of [[Hōjō Tokimune|Hojo Tokimune]].

* '''23 November 1275''' (''[[Kenji (era)|Kenji]] 1, 5th day of the 11th month''): Hirohito''-shinnō'' was named Crown Prince and heir to his first cousin, the ''Daikakuji-tō'' Emperor Go-Uda.  This was the result of political maneuvering by Hirohito's father, the Jimyōin-tō Emperor Go-Fukakusa.<ref>Titsingh, p. 262, 270.</ref>

In 1287, retired [[Emperor Go-Fukakusa]], dissatisfied with the fact that his own lineage (the ''Jimyōin-tō'') did not control the throne, while that of his younger brother, the retired [[Emperor Kameyama]] (the ''Daikakuji-tō'') did, persuaded both the [[Kamakura shogunate|Bakufu]] and the [[Imperial Court in Kyoto|imperial court]] to compel the Emperor to abdicate in favor of Go-Fukakusa's son ([[Emperor Fushimi]]).

After this time, the struggle between the Jimyōin-tō and the Daikakuji-tō over the imperial throne continued.  After Go-Uda's abdication, his Daikakuji-tō controlled the throne from 1301 to 1308 ([[Emperor Go-Nijo|Emperor Go-Nijō]]) and again from 1318 until the [[Nanboku-cho|era of northern and southern courts]] (begun 1332) when they became the southern court (ending in 1392).

Go-Uda was cloistered emperor during the reign of his own son, Go-Nijō, from 1301 until 1308, and again from 1318, when his second son Go-Daigo took the throne until 1321, when Go-Daigo began direct rule.

[[File:Go-Uda misasagi.jpg|thumb|right|Memorial Shinto shrine and mausoleum honoring Emperor Go-Uda.]]
* '''16 July 1324''' (''[[Genkō (first)|Genkō]] 4, 25th day of the 6th month''): Go-Uda died at age 58.<ref>Varley, p. 237.</ref>

Emperor Go-Uda's Imperial mausoleum is the ''Rengebuji no misasagi'' (蓮華峯寺陵) in [[Ukyō-ku, Kyoto]].<ref>Ponsonby-Fane, Richard. (1959). ''The Imperial House of Japan,'' p. 422.</ref>