Emperor of Japan
Emperor Seinei
?寧天皇
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Reign
| 11 February 480 ? 27 February 484 (traditional)
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Predecessor
| Y?ryaku
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Successor
| Kenz?
possibly
Iitoyo
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Born
| Shiraka (
白?
)
444
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Died
| February 27, 484
(484-02-27)
(aged 39?40)
Iware no Mikakuri Palace
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Burial
| Kawachi no Sakado no hara no misasagi
(
河?坂門原陵
)
(Osaka)
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House
| Imperial House of Japan
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Father
| Emperor Y?ryaku
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Mother
| Katsuragi no Karahime
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Emperor Seinei
(
?寧天皇
,
Seinei-tenn?
)
(444 ? 27 February 484) was the 22nd
emperor of Japan
,
[2]
according to the traditional
order of succession
.
[3]
No firm dates can be assigned to this emperor's life or reign, but he is conventionally considered to have reigned from 480 to 484.
[4]
Legendary narrative
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Seinei was a 5th-century monarch.
[5]
The reign of
Emperor Kinmei
(
c.
509
? 571 AD), the 29th emperor,
[6]
is the first for which contemporary historiography is able to assign verifiable dates;
[7]
however, the conventionally accepted names and dates of the early emperors were not to be confirmed as "traditional" until the reign of
Emperor Kanmu
(737?806), the 50th sovereign of the
Yamato dynasty
.
[8]
According to
Kojiki
and
Nihonshoki
, he was a son of
Emperor Y?ryaku
and his consort Katsuragi no Karahime. Seinei's full sister was Princess Takuhatahime. His name in birth was
Shiraka
(
白?皇子
)
. It is said that the color of his hair was white since birth.
[9]
After the death of his father, Seinei won
the fight against Prince Hoshikawa
, his brother, for the throne and so succeeded his father.
Seinei's contemporary title would not have been
tenn?
, as most historians believe this title was not introduced until the reigns of
Emperor Tenmu
and
Empress Jit?
. Rather, it was presumably
Sumeramikoto
or
Amenoshita Shiroshimesu ?kimi
(
治天下大王
)
, meaning "the great king who rules all under heaven". Alternatively, Seinei might have been referred to as
ヤマト大王/大君
or the "Great King of Yamato".
Seinei fathered no children; however, two grandsons of the 17th Emperor,
Emperor Rich?
, were found?later to ascend as
Prince Woke
and
Prince Oke
. Seinei adopted them as his heirs.
[10]
The actual site of Seinei's
grave
is not known.
[2]
The emperor is traditionally venerated at a
memorial
Shinto
shrine
(
misasagi
) at
Osaka
.
The
Imperial Household Agency
designates this location as Seinei's
mausoleum
. It is formally named
Kawachi no Sakado no hara no misasagi
.
[11]
See also
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Notes
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- ^
"Genealogy of the Emperors of Japan" at Kunaicho.go.jp
; retrieved 2013-8-28.
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a
b
Imperial Household Agency
(
Kunaich?
):
?寧天皇 (22)
; retrieved 2013-8-28.
- ^
Titsingh, Isaac
. (1834).
Annales des empereurs du japon,
pp. 28?29
;
Brown, Delmer M.
(1979).
Gukansh?,
pp. 258?259
;
Varley, H. Paul
. (1980).
Jinn? Sh?t?ki
, pp. 115?116.
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Ponsonby-Fane, Richard
. (1959).
The Imperial House of Japan,
p. 41.
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Kelly, Charles F.
"Kofun Culture,"
Japanese Archaeology.
27 April 2009.
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Titsingh,
pp. 34?36
; Brown,
pp. 261?262
; Varley, pp. 123?124.
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Hoye, Timothy. (1999).
Japanese Politics: Fixed and Floating Worlds,
p. 78; excerpt, "According to legend, the first Japanese Emperor was Jinmu. Along with the next 13 Emperors, Jinmu is not considered an actual, historical figure. Historically verifiable Emperors of Japan date from the early sixth century with Kinmei.
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Aston, William
. (1896).
Nihongi,
pp. 109.
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Titsingh, p. 29; n.b., there is speculation that this unusual hair color suggests
albinism
.
- ^
Aston, William. (1998).
Nihongi,
Vol. 1, pp. 373?377.
- ^
Ponsonby-Fane, p. 419.
References
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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
- Nippon Gakujutsu Shinkokai (1969).
The Many?sh?: The Nippon Gakujutsu Shinkokai Translation of One Thousand Poems.
New York:
Columbia University Press
.
ISBN
0-231-08620-2
- 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
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Regnal titles
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Preceded by
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Emperor of Japan
:
Seinei
11 February 480 ? 27 February 484
(traditional dates)
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Succeeded by
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