Emperor Go-Sai

Emperor Go-Sai

Emperor Go-Sai (後西天皇, Go-Sai-tennō, January 1, 1638 – March 22, 1685), also known as Emperor Go-Saiin (後西院天皇, Go-Saiin-tennō), was the 111th emperor of Japan, according to the traditional order of succession.Go-Sai's reign spanned the years from 1655 through 1663.This 17th-century sovereign was named after the 9th-century Emperor Junna and go- (後), translates as later, and thus, he could have been called the "Later Emperor Junna". Emperor Go-Sai could not pass the throne onto his descendants. For this reason, he was known as the Go-Saiin emperor, after an alternate name of Emperor Junna, who had confronted and reached an accommodation with similar issues. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Emperor Go-Sai has received more than 188,335 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). Emperor Go-Sai is the 2,631st most popular politician (up from 3,164th in 2019), the 112th most popular biography from Japan (up from 141st in 2019) and the 38th most popular Japanese Politician.

Emperor Go-sai is most famous for his decision to abandon Kyoto and the imperial court in order to set up a new capital in Tokyo, which was then called Edo. This decision was made after the Great Fire of Meireki in 1657.