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7th Emperor of Japan
Emperor K?rei
(
孝?天皇
,
K?rei-tenn?
)
, also known as
?yamatonekohikofutoni no Mikoto
(
大倭根子日子賦斗邇命
)
was the seventh
legendary
emperor of Japan
, according to the traditional
order of succession
.
[3]
[4]
Very little is known about this Emperor due to a lack of material available for further verification and study. K?rei is known as a "legendary emperor" among historians as his actual existence is disputed. Nothing exists in the
Kojiki
other than his name and genealogy. K?rei's reign allegedly began in 290 BC. He had one wife and three consorts with whom he fathered seven children. After his death in 215 BC, one of his sons supposedly became the
next emperor
.
[5]
[6]
K?rei is traditionally accepted as the first emperor of the
Yayoi period
, which is named after the
Yayoi people
who migrated to the
Japanese archipelago
from mainland
Asia
.
Legendary narrative
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In the
Kojiki
and
Nihon Shoki
, only his name and genealogy were recorded. The Japanese have traditionally accepted this sovereign's historical existence, and an Imperial
misasagi
or tomb for K?rei is currently maintained; however, no extant contemporary records have been discovered that confirm a view that this historical figure actually reigned. K?rei was born in 342 BC and is believed to be the eldest son of
Emperor K?an
.
[2]
His mother is believed to have been Oshihime, who was the daughter of Ametarashihiko-Kunio-shihito-no-mikoto.
[7]
K?rei's pre-ascension name was Prince
O-Yamato-Neko Hiko-futo-ni no Mikoto
, and the
Kojiki
records that he ruled from the palace of
Kuroda-noi-odo-no-miya
(
?田廬?宮
)
at Kuroda in what would come to be known as
Yamato Province
.
[4]
[6]
It is noted in the Kojiki that sometime during K?rei's reign,
Kibi
was conquered by the emperor.
[8]
K?rei was the first emperor since
Jimmu
to take on consorts, and fathered seven children with them along with his chief wife Empress: Kuwashi-hime. K?rei is recorded as having a long life, reigning from 290 BC until his death in 215 BC. His eldest son was then subsequently enthroned as the
next emperor
.
Known information
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The existence of at least the first nine Emperors is disputed due to insufficient material available for further verification and study.
[9]
K?rei is thus regarded by historians as a "legendary Emperor", and is considered to have been the sixth of
eight Emperors without specific legends associated with them
.
[a]
The name K?rei
-tenn?
was assigned to him
posthumously
by later generations.
[11]
His name might have been regularized centuries after the lifetime ascribed to K?rei, possibly during the time in which legends about the origins of the
Yamato dynasty
were compiled as the chronicles known today as the
Kojiki
.
[10]
As with
Emperor K?an
, K?rei's exceptional age of 127 is
considered unlikely
due to verification issues among other things. While the actual site of K?rei's
grave
is not known, the Emperor is traditionally venerated at a
memorial
Shinto
shrine
(
misasagi
) in
?ji
. The
Imperial Household Agency
designates this location as K?rei's
mausoleum
, and its formal name is
Kataoka no Umasaka no misasagi
.
[3]
[5]
Like
Emperor K?sh?
, there is a possibility that
"K?rei"
could have lived instead in the 1st century (AD). Historian
Louis Frederic
notes this idea in his book
Japan Encyclopedia
where he says it is "very likely", but this remains
disputed
among other researchers.
[6]
[12]
The first emperor that historians state might have actually existed is
Emperor Sujin
, the 10th emperor of Japan.
[13]
Outside of the Kojiki, the reign of
Emperor Kinmei
[b]
(
c.
509
? 571 AD) is the first for which contemporary historiography is able to assign verifiable dates.
[16]
The conventionally accepted names and dates of the early Emperors were not confirmed as "traditional" though, until the reign of
Emperor Kanmu
[c]
between 737 and 806 AD.
[10]
Consorts and children
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- Empress: Kuwashi-hime
(
細媛命
)
, Shiki no Agatanushi Oome's daughter
- Son: Prince ?yamatonekohikokunikuru
(
大日本根子彦?牽尊
)
, later
Emperor K?gen
- Consort: Kasuga no Chichihayamawaka-hime
(
春日之千千速?若比?
)
- Daughter: Princess Chichihaya-hime
(
千千速比?命
)
- Consort: Yamato no Kunika-hime
(
倭?香媛
)
, Wachitsumi's daughter
- Consort: Haeirodo
(
?某弟
)
, Yamato no Kunikahime's sister
- Consort: Mashita-hime (?舌媛), Toshihiko Ohihiko's daughter
Family tree
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Genealogy of early Japanese emperors and empresses
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See also
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Notes
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Also known as the "eight undocumented monarchs"
(
欠史八代
,
Kesshi-hachidai
)
.
[10]
- ^
The 29th Emperor
[14]
[15]
- ^
Kanmu was the 50th sovereign of the
Yamato dynasty
- ^
There are two ways this name is transcribed: "Ika-gashiko-me" is used by
Tsutomu Ujiya
, while "Ika-shiko-me" is used by
William George Aston
.
[47]
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Further reading
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- Aston, William George.
(1896).
Nihongi: Chronicles of Japan from the Earliest Times to A.D. 697
.
London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner.
OCLC
448337491
- Brown, Delmer M.
and Ichir? Ishida, eds. (1979).
Gukansh?: The Future and the Past
.
Berkeley: University of California Press.
ISBN
978-0-520-03460-0
;
OCLC
251325323
- Chamberlain, Basil Hall.
(1920).
The Kojiki
.
Read before the Asiatic Society of Japan on April 12, May 10, and June 21, 1882; reprinted, May, 1919.
OCLC
1882339
- Nussbaum, Louis-Frederic
and Kathe Roth. (2005).
Japan encyclopedia
.
Cambridge:
Harvard University Press
.
ISBN
978-0-674-01753-5
;
OCLC
58053128
- Ponsonby-Fane, Richard Arthur Brabazon
. (1959).
The Imperial House of Japan
.
Kyoto: Ponsonby Memorial Society.
OCLC
194887
- Titsingh, Isaac.
(1834).
Nihon ?dai Ichiran
; ou,
Annales des empereurs du Japon
.
Paris: Royal Asiatic Society, Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain and Ireland.
OCLC
5850691
- Varley, H. Paul.
(1980).
Jinn? Sh?t?ki: A Chronicle of Gods and Sovereigns
.
New York: Columbia University Press.
ISBN
978-0-231-04940-5
;
OCLC
59145842