Emperor Kōgon

Kōgon (1313–1364), personal name Kazuhito, was the first emperor of Japan's Northern Court, reigning from 1331 to 1333. A son of Emperor Go-Fushimi of the Jimyōin line, he was made heir to Emperor Go-Daigo in 1326 under the throne-alternation agreement. After Go-Daigo's rising against the Kamakura shogunate in 1331, the Hōjō exiled Go-Daigo to Oki and enthroned Kōgon.

Go-Daigo returned and deposed him in 1333. In 1336 Ashikaga Takauji placed Kōgon's brother Kōmyō on the Northern throne. Southern forces seized him at Kyoto in 1352 amid the Kan'ō Disturbance and kept him captive until his death in 1364.