Word: yoshino
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Dates: during 1934-1934
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...Takauji, furious but resourceful, persuaded the Emperor that his son was a traitor, had him put to death. Next he worked on Go Daigo's army with bribes. Finally in 1335 he set himself up as Shogun at Kamakura. Go Daigo, refusing to recognize him, fled south to Yoshino but remembered to take the sacred mirror of the Sun Goddess, the sacred jewel and the sacred sword-symbols of his right to reign. Takauji. well aware that his title of Shogun was empty as long as it lacked the sanction of a reigning descendant of the Sun Goddess, looked...