99th Go-Kameyama 1372-1392
100th Go-Komatsu 1392-1412
101st Shoko 1412-1428
102d Go-Hanazono 1428-1465
103d Go-Tsuchimikado 1465-1500
104th Go-Kashiwabara 1500-1526
105th Go-Nara 1526-1557
106th Okimachi 1557-1586
107th Go-Yozei 1586-1611
THE sovereigns of the Northern Court, not being recognized as legitimate by Japanese annalists, are excluded from the above list. Go-Komatsu, however, is made an exception. He reigned from 1382 to 1392 as representing the Northern Court, and thereafter, the two Courts having ceased their rivalry, he reigned undisputed until 1412. It has further to be noted that many histories make the number of sovereigns greater by two than the figures recorded in the lists of this volume. That is because the histories in question count as two the Empresses Kogyoku (642-645) and Saimei (655-661), although they represent the same sovereign under different names, and because they adopt a similar method of reckoning in the case of the Empresses Koken (749-758) and Shotoku (765-770), whereas in this volume the actual number of sovereigns is alone recorded.