DAIGO, GO-

born Nov. 26, 1288, Kyoto died Sept. 19, 1339, Mount Yoshino, south of Nara, Japan in full Go-daigo Tenno, personal name Takaharu emperor of Japan (131839), whose efforts to overthrow the shogunate and restore the monarchy led to civil war and divided the imperial family into two rival factions. Additional reading The Taiheiki (Chronicle of the Grand Pacification) of unknown authorship is the most detailed primary source on Go-Daigo, of which there is an excellent translation by Helen Craig McCullough, The Taiheiki: A Chronicle of Medieval Japan (1959). The most detailed and authoritative general history in English on the subject is George Sansom, A History of Japan, vol. 1 and 2 (195861). For the views of Japanese thinkers of the Tokugawa period (16031867) on the subject, see David Magarey Earl, Emperor and Nation in Japan: Political Thinkers of the Tokugawa Period (1964).