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The Kemmu Restoration (建武の新政, Kenmu no shinsei^?) was a period of Japanese history that occurred from 1333 to 1336.¹

It marks the three year period between the fall of the Kamakura shogunate and the rise of the Ashikaga shogunate, when Emperor Go-Daigo attempted to re-establish Imperial control by overthrowing the bakufu.　However, because the rule of Go-Daigo had esteemed the aristocrat, samurais were dissatisfied. Among these dissatisfied samurais was Ashikaga Takauji.

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• Titsingh, Isaac, ed. (1834). [Siyun-sai Rin-siyo/Hayashi Gahō, 1652], Nipon o daï itsi ran; ou, Annales des empereurs du Japon, tr. par M. Isaac Titsingh avec l'aide de plusieurs interprètes attachés. Paris: Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain and Ireland.