Meitoku
Meitoku (明徳) was a Japanese era name (年号 "nengō", "year name") of the Northern Court during the Era of Northern and Southern Courts after "Kōō" and before "Ōei". This period spanned the years from March 1390 to July 1394. After October 1392, Meitoku replaced the Southern Court's nengō ("Genchū"). The emperor in Kyoto was The Southern Court rival in Yoshino until 1392 was . Nanboku-chō overview. During the Meiji period, an Imperial decree dated March 3, 1911, established that the legitimate reigning monarchs of this period were the direct descendants of Emperor Go-Daigo through Emperor Go-Murakami , whose had been established in exile in Yoshino, near Nara. Until the end of the Edo period, the militarily superior pretender-Emperors supported by the Ashikaga shogunate had been mistakenly incorporated in Imperial chronologies even though it was known that the Imperial Regalia were not in their possession. This illegitimate had been established in Kyoto by Ashikaga Takauji. Change of era. In the initial years of this time frame, Genchū (1384–1392) was the Southern Court equivalent "nengō." In 1392, the two rival courts were said to be reunited in the era of "Meitoku." "Genchū" 9 became "Meitoku" 3 when the  two courts were reconciled. Events of "Meitoku" era. Ashikaga Yoshimitsu solidified the Bakufu's power by suppressing the power of the "daimyōs" and the shugo during the Toki Yasuyuki Rebellion, the Meitoku Rebellion and the Ōei Rebellion. In Meitoku 3/Genchū 9 (1392), the Northern Dynasty confiscated the Sacred Treasures which the Southern Court had possessed. With the abdication of Emperor Go-Kameyama, the dynasties, and eras, were consolidated. Hosokawa Yoriyuki, who had reinstated the Bakufu after it lost its standing in the Kōryaku Coup, died in Meiroku 3 (1392) in the Meiroku Rebellion. His younger brother Hosokawa Yoritomo replaced  him as the person in control. In Meitoku 4 (1393), Shiba Yoshimasa became the person in control.