Thee Kenmu (or Kemmu) Restoration (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.

The restoration is an effort made by Emperor Go-Daigo to bring the Imperial House and the nobility it represents back into power, thus restoring a civilian government after almost a century and a half of military rule.

The attempted restoration ultimately fails and is replaced by the Ashikaga shogunate (1336–1575).

This is to be the last time the Emperor had any power until the Meiji restoration of 1867.

The many and serious political errors made by the Imperial House during this three-year period are to have important repercussions in the following decades and end with the rise to power of the Ashikaga dynasty.