Emperor Go-Horikawa

Emperor Go-Horikawa (1212–1234), the 86th emperor of Japan, was placed on the Chrysanthemum Throne in 1221 after the Jōkyū Incident, when the Kamakura shogunate crushed Retired Emperor Go-Toba's bid for power and barred his line from the succession.

A grandson of Emperor Takakura aged only ten, he replaced the deposed Emperor Chūkyō while his father Morisada directed the court as cloistered emperor Go-Takakura-in. In 1232 he abdicated for his infant son Emperor Shijō and ruled as retired emperor until his death two years later.