Emperor Fushimi

Fukakusa kita no misasagi in Fushimi, the mausoleum of twelve emperors including Emperor Fushimi

• Reign: 1288-1298
• Japanese: 伏見天皇 (Fushimi tennou)

Emperor Fushimi was an emperor of the Kamakura period, reigning from 1288 to 1298.

Fushimi took the throne after the Kamakura shogunate pressured Emperor Go-Uda to abdicate in his favor, and to allow himself to be succeeded not by one of his own sons, but by a cousin - Fushimi. This marked the beginning of a practice of alternating the succession between members of the so-called Daikakuji and Jimyôin lines of imperial succession - that is, those descended from Fushimi's father Emperor Go-Fukakusa, and those descended from Go-Uda's father (Go-Fukakusa's younger brother), Emperor Kameyama. This division later developed into the circumstance of the Northern and Southern Courts of the Nanbokuchô period, when two emperors simultaneously staked competing claims of legitimacy.

Preceded by Emperor Go-Uda

Emperor of Japan 1288-1298

Succeeded by Emperor Go-Fushimi