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5 Japanese kings
倭の五王
alternative words: Five Japanese kings, Wa no goou, Wa no goo, Wanogoou, Wanogoo
keywords:
china
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emperor
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famous person
related topics:
Himiko
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Yamato dynasty
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Kofun period
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Wa
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Emperor Yuryaku
related web sites:
http://www.tg.rim.or.jp/~picno/
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http://www.inetmie.or.jp/~jin/WAGOOU.html
explanation: After Himiko and her successor Toyo sent mission to China in 3th century, Japan entered a civil war period so the diplomatic relation stopped. After an establishment of Yamato dynasty in 5th, 5 Japanese emperors, so called "5 Japanese kings", sent mission to China in order to get a recognition of their dynasty. The difference of genealogy between existing Chinese and Japanese documents has provoked a controversy: only Emperor Yuryaku (Bu in Chinese) is unanimously recognized.
Emperor Godaigo
後醍醐天皇
alternative words: Godaigo tenno, Emperor Go-daigo, Go-daigo tenno, Godaigo tennou, Godaigo
keywords:
emperor
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famous person
related topics:
Kamakura shogunate
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Ashikaga Takauji
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Kusunoki Masashige
related web sites:
http://www.lares.dti.ne.jp/~takuhi/
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http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~wx7s-yngd/e01/e01.html
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http://www9.big.or.jp/~hiroshi1/taiheiki.htm
explanation: 96th emperor of Japan. Born in 1288, after 2 aborted putsches to overthrow Kamakura shougunate, he had been sent to Oki island as political prisoner. After the disappearance of shogunate, he returned back to Kyoto and restored the imperial regime (Kemmu restoration). But many samurais who helped him remained unhappy because of an unequal recompense. By taking advantage of the unrest, Ashikaga Takauji overthrew this regime. Godaigo died at a hidden court of Yoshino in 1339.
Emperor Gotoba
後鳥羽天皇
後鳥羽上皇
alternative words: Gotoba tenno, Retired emperor Gotoba, Gotobajoko, Gotoba joko, Gotoba
keywords:
emperor
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famous person
related topics:
Kamakura shogunate
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Shin Kokinshu
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Genji
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Hojoshi
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Insei
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Jokou
related web sites:
http://www.miracle.ne.jp/rainbow/siseki2.html
explanation: Born in 1180, 82th emperor of Japan. After the assassination of Minamoto no Sanetomo, he organized Jokyu rebellion in 1221 to reestablish the lost power of Kyoto's nobility, hoping to catch enough partisans who were unhappy with the dictatorship of Hojo clan. But he lost the battle and forced exile to Oki island and died hopelessly there in 1239. He was very talented in any domain such as poem, music, go, horse riding, swimming. He supervised the edition of Shin Kokinshu.
Emperor Jimmu
神武天皇
神武
alternative words: Jimmu Tenno, Jimmu-tenno, Jimmutenno, Emperor Jinmu, Jinmu Tenno, Jinmu-tenno, Jinmu tennou, Jinmu, Jimmu
keywords:
emperor
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famous person
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mythology
related topics:
Nihonshoki
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Kojiki
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Yamato dynasty
explanation: According to old Japanese history books like Kojiki or Nihonshoki, he left the southern Kyushu 2700 years ago to conquer Kinki region to become the first Emperor of Japan. There exists a great controversy on his existence: some negate it, others say he should have existed but the date of the event should be brought around the 3th century A. D. Anyway, this event should tell a migration of some folk from Kyushu to Kinki to make it a political center of Japan.
Emperor Kanmu
桓武天皇
alternative words: Kanmu tenno, Emperor Kammu, Kammu tenno, Kanmu tennou, Kanmu, Kammu
keywords:
emperor
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famous person
related topics:
Nagaokakyo
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Heiankyo
related web sites:
http://ww1.tiki.ne.jp/~i-mitu/heiannkyou.htm
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http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~SG2H-YMST/kanmu.html
explanation: Born in 737. After the death of Empress Shotoku, Tenmu branch had been extinguished and a prince of Tench branch, Konin became an emperor. Shortly after, Kanmu succeeded his father and became the 50th emperor. In order to emphasize the arrival of a new era, he moved the capital to Nagaokakyo then to Heiankyo and strived to reestablish "Ritsuryo" i.e. centralized regime. His mother being Korean origin, he engaged more foreigners in the government. He died in 806.
Emperor Komei
孝明天皇
alternative words: Komei tenno, Komei tennou, Emperor Koumei, Koumei tenno, Koumei tennou
keywords:
emperor
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famous person
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meiji revolution
related topics:
Bakumatsu
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Meiji revolution
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Edo Shogunate
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Emperor Meiji
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Sakoku
explanation: 121th Japanese emperor. Born in 1831 as a son of Emperor Konin. Contrary to other emperors of Edo period, he refused to be a puppet and strongly criticized Edo shogunate after the abandon of 2 century old Sakoku policy in 1853. So he attracted around him many nationalists but accepted the reconciliation Tokugawa regime (Koubu gattai) by agreeing the marriage of his sister with 14th shogun, Tokugawa Iemochi. He died in 1866 due to smallpox but suspected to be poisoned.
Emperor Meiji
明治天皇
明治
alternative words: Emperor of Meiji, Meiji tenno, Meijitenno, Meiji tennou, Emperor Meji, Meji tenno, Mejitenno, Meiji, Meji
keywords:
emperor
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famous person
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meiji revolution
related topics:
Meiji revolution
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Edo shogunate
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Emperor Komei
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Meiji period
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Sino-Japanese war
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Russo-Japanese war
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Emperor Taisho
related web sites:
http://www.meijijingu.or.jp
explanation: 122th Japanese emperor. Born in 1852 as a son of Komei Emperor and became himself emperor in 1866. He was the central figure of a movement to abolish Edo shogunate and to transform Japan to a powerful westernized country. The constitution promulgated in 1989 (constitution of the Empire of Japan) conferred him an absolute power. After the victory against China (1895) and Russia (1905), he got a reputation of clever emperor. He died in 1912 and was enshrined at Meiji shrine.
Emperor Nintoku
仁徳天皇
仁徳
alternative words: Nintoku tenno, Nintoku tennou, Nintoku
keywords:
emperor
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famous person
related topics:
Emperor Ojin
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Tumulus
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Kofun period
related web sites:
http://www.wnn.or.jp/wnn-history/
explanation: 16th Emperor and a son of Ojin tenno, he is notorious as the owner of a gigantic tumulus (486m long), the biggest in Japan. There exists a controversy among historians about his existence because of a strange similitude between the name of his wife Kaminaga hime and that of his father's, Izuminonaga hime, both coming from Hyuga region. Anyway, his huge tumulus located near the seashore on the south of Osaka should have impressed all the foreign delegations, arriving to Japan.
Emperor Ojin
応神天皇
応神
alternative words: Emperor Oujin, Ojintenno, Ojin-tenno, Ojin tenno, Oujin tennou, Ojin
keywords:
emperor
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famous person
related topics:
Tumulus
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Nihonshoki
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Kojiki
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Empress Jingu
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Emperor Nintoku
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Kofun period
explanation: The 15th Emperor of Japan. A legend says that he had born from Empress Jingu who would have already pregnant when she had been fighting in Korean peninsula. For that reason, he had been considered a war god and protector of Japan (Hachiman shinko). His tumulus, located in the south of Osaka prefecture is the biggest in Japan in volume. Some see the establishment of a new dynasty from Ojin because of the localization of his tumulus, far from the precedents.
Emperor Shomu
聖武天皇
alternative words: Shomu tenno, Shomu tennou, Emperor Shoumu, Shoumu tenno, Shoumu tennou
keywords:
emperor
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famous person
related topics:
Nara period
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Rebellion of Fujiwara no Hirotsugu
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Fujiwara no Fuhito
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Gyoki
related web sites:
http://www.todaiji.org
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http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~sg2h-ymst/syoumu.html
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http://www.hikyaku.com/gallery/english/nara.html
explanation: 45th emperor. Born in 701 from Emperor Monmu and a daughter of Fujiwara no Fuhito. He introduced massively Chinese civilization through Kentoshi missions and constructed many Buddhist temples. After a rebellion of Fujiwara no Hirotsugu in 740, he changed 3 times the capital. Though during his reign, Tenpyo Buddhist art reached the apogee, due to many palace and temple constructions such as Todaiji temple in Nara, the state treasure was exhausted. He died in 756.
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