The Kenmu Restoration (建武の新政, Kenmu no shinsei) (1333–1336) is the name given to both the three-year period of Japanese history between the Kamakura period and the Muromachi period, and the political events that took place in it.[1] The restoration was an effort made by Emperor Go-Daigo to bring the Imperial House back into power, thus restoring a civilian government after almost a century and a half of military rule.[2] The attempted restoration ultimately failed and was replaced by the Ashikaga shogunate (1336–1575).[2] This was to be the last time the Emperor had any power until the Meiji Restoration of 1868.[2] The many and serious political errors made by the Imperial House during this three-year period were to have important repercussions in the following decades and end with the rise to power of the Ashikaga dynasty.[2]