Yoshino

Yoshino lies in the mountains south of the Yamato basin, a place of sacred peaks and long-established worship. Its temples became bound to the fortunes of an imperial court when Emperor Go-Daigo fled Kyoto in 1336 and established a rival court here. The Southern Court endured through decades of conflict with the Northern Court, until the two lines were reconciled in 1392. Go-Daigo spent his final years at Yoshino, praying at Kinpusen-ji for the safety of the realm.