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Emperor Chōkei

Emperor of Japan from 1368 to 1383

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 10, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
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Emperor Chōkei was the 98th emperor of Japan, according to the traditional order of succession. He reigned from 1368 through 1383. His personal name was Yutanari (寛成) and his regal name roughly translates to "Long Celebration".

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“Emperor Chōkei” enters the record as emperor of Japan from 1368 to 1383. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Emperor, Chōkei and Japan can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1368, 1383—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Emperor, Chōkei and Japan.
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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 10, 2026. The first chronological checks are 1368 and 1383.

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This entry incorporates text from “Emperor Chōkei” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.