he began his own cloistered rule, abdicating to his 1-year-old son, Emperor Shijō. However, he had a weak constitution, and his cloistered rule lasted just under two years before he died. Emperor Go-Horikawa's Imperial tomb (misasagi) is at Sennyū-ji in the . Kugyō Kugyō (公卿) is a collective term for the very few most powerful men attached to the court of the Emperor of Japan in pre-Meiji eras. In general, this elite group included only three to four men at a time. These were hereditary courtiers whose experience and background would have brought them to the pinnacle of a life's career. During Go-Horikawa's reign, this apex of the Daijō-kan included: Sesshō, Konoe Iezane, d. 1242 CE. Sadaijin, Konoe Iemichi, 1204–1224 CE. Udaijin, Fujiwara Kintsugu, 1117–1227 CE. Naidaijin, Saionji Kintsune, 1171–1224 CE. Dainagon Eras of Go-Horikawa's reign The years of Go-Horikawa's reign are more specifically identified by more than one era name or nengō. Jōkyū (1219–1222 CE) Jōō (1222–1224 CE) Gennin (1224–1225 CE) Karoku (1225–1227 CE) Antei (1227–1229 CE) Kangi (1229–1232 CE) See also Emperor of Japan List of Emperors of Japan Imperial cult Notes References Brown, Delmer M. and Ichirō Ishida, eds. (1979). [ Jien, c. 1220], Gukanshō (The Future and the Past, a translation and study of the Gukanshō, an interpretative history of Japan written in 1219). Berkeley: University of California Press. Ponsonby-Fane, Richard Arthur Brabazon. (1959). The Imperial House of Japan. Kyoto: Ponsonby Memorial Society. OCLC 194887 Titsingh, Isaac, ed. (1834). [Siyun-sai Rin-siyo/Hayashi Gahō, 1652], Nipon o daï itsi ran; ou, Annales des empereurs du Japon.] Paris: Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain and Ireland. Varley, H. Paul , ed. (1980). [ Kitabatake Chikafusa, 1359], Jinnō Shōtōki ([https://books.google.com/books?id=tVv6OAAACAAJ&dq=A+Chronicle+of+Gods+and+Sovereigns:+Jinn%C5%8D+Sh%C5%8Dt%C5%8Dki+of+Kitabatake+Chikafusa&lr= A Chronicle of Gods and Sovereigns: Jinnō Shōtōki. New York: Columbia University Press. Japanese emperors 1212 births 1234 deaths Emperor Go-Horikawa Emperor Go-Horikawa Emperor Go-Horikawa 13th-century Japanese monarchs