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Emperor Kôkaku reigned from [[1779]] to [[1817]], succeeding [[Emperor Go-Momozono]] and being succeeded in turn by his son, [[Emperor Ninko|Emperor Ninkô]].
Emperor Kôkaku reigned from [[1779]] to [[1817]], succeeding [[Emperor Go-Momozono]] and being succeeded in turn by his son, [[Emperor Ninko|Emperor Ninkô]].
After Emperor Go-Momozono died without any sons, Kôkaku, a member of a collateral line of the imperial family, married Go-Momozono's only daughter in conjunction with taking the throne.
Kôkaku arranged to have the term ''[[Emperor|tennô]]'' ("Heavenly King", or "Emperor") employed to refer to him posthumously. This marked the revival of an ancient tradition, making himself the first emperor in roughly six hundred years to be officially called ''tennô''.<ref>Luke Roberts, "Cultivating Non-National Historical Understandings in Local History," Joshua Fogel (ed.) ''The Teleology of the Nation-State'', Univ of Pennsylvania Press (2004), 169.</ref>
Kôkaku arranged to have the term ''[[Emperor|tennô]]'' ("Heavenly King", or "Emperor") employed to refer to him posthumously. This marked the revival of an ancient tradition, making himself the first emperor in roughly six hundred years to be officially called ''tennô''.<ref>Luke Roberts, "Cultivating Non-National Historical Understandings in Local History," Joshua Fogel (ed.) ''The Teleology of the Nation-State'', Univ of Pennsylvania Press (2004), 169.</ref>
He abdicated in favor of one of his sons in [[1817]], who then took the throne as Emperor Ninkô.
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==References==
==References==
*Evelyn Rawski, ''Early Modern China and Northeast Asia: Cross-Border Perspectives'', Cambridge University Press (2015), 157.
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[[Category:Emperors|Kokaku]]
[[Category:Emperors|Kokaku]]
[[Category:Edo Period]]
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