Abdication of Emperor Shirakawa
Event · abdication · 1086 · Kyoto, Japan
Emperor Shirakawa abdicated in 1086 and went on governing from his retirement for forty-three years — the beginning of government by cloistered emperors (insei)1. Mason 2005, p. 102. ↩ Literatur Mason 2005: Penelope E. Mason, History of Japanese Art, 2nd, Pearson Education LTD. 2005.