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	Japanese Culture - Royalty - The Imperial Family
		The family's lineage dates back to the sixth century BC, though the title of Tenno (emperor) or Sumera-Mikoto (heavenly sovereign) was assumed by rulers in the sixth or seventh century and has been used since.
		Later during the Nara Period (710~794) Prince Shotoku, son of the Empress Suiko, created Japan's first constitution and established Buddhism as the country's dominant religion.
		At the beginning of the Heian Period (794~1185), Emperor Kammu established a new capital in Kyoto, a city designed based on the Chinese capital.
	www.japan-zone.com /culture/imperial.shtml (1081 words)

	Emperor of Japan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		While scholastic texts in Japan use "{name} tennō" consistently, in texts by English-speaking academics several variants have been used, such as "Emperor {name}", "the {name} Emperor", and "{name} Tenno", although "Emperor {name}" appears to be the most common among these, particularly for emperors prior to Emperor Meiji.
		Tenno (imina) gets attached posthum (prefix), but not to the current time emperor.
		Three empresses, Empress Suiko, Empress Kōgyoku (also Empress Saimei) and Empress Jitō, were widows of deceased emperors and princesses of the blood imperial in their own right.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tenno (4948 words)

	Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Emperor of Japan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Historically the titles of Tenno in Japanese have never included territorial designations as is the case with many European monarchs.
		In those days, the tenno's chief task was priestly (or godly), containing so many repetitive rituals that it was deemed that the incumbent deserved pampered retirement as an honored former emperor.
		In part, the Japanese imperial dynasty owes its longevity in the male line to the use of concubines, a practice that only ended in the Taishō period (1912-1926).
	www.hallencyclopedia.com /Emperor_of_Japan (4188 words)

	Emperor_of_Japan - The real meaning from Timesharetalk wikipedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		While scholastic texts in Japan use "{name} tenno" consistently, in texts by English-speaking academics several variants have been used, such as "Emperor {name}", "the {name} Emperor", and "{name} Tenno", although "Emperor {name}" appears to be the most common among these, particularly for emperors prior to Emperor Meiji.
		The introduction of this term comes amidst the movement of Japanese sinicization, and is considered an attempt of the Japanese rulers to assert themselves on equal footing with the Chinese emperors.
		Three empresses, Empress Suiko, Empress Kogyoku (also Empress Saimei) and Empress Jito, were widows of deceased emperors and princesses of the blood imperial in their own right.
	www.timesharetalk.co.uk /wiki.asp?k=Emperor_of_Japan (4923 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Japan
		This hierarchy was established in Japan in the reign of the Empress Suiko (A.D. In 682 the number of degrees was raised to forty-eight; in 702 it was fixed at thirty.
		In 604, in the reign of the Empress Suiko, Shotoku Taishi promulgated a code of law in seventeen chapters borrowed from China.
		The oldest extant picture was made during the reign of the Empress Suiko (593-628) and is preserved in the temple of Horyuji, near Nara.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/08297a.htm (17760 words)

	Emperor_Jomei Information - Online Prescription Medication Directory
		Suiko did not make it clear who was to succeed her after her death.
		Before her death, she called Tamura and another prince, Prince Yamasironooe, who was the elder son of Prince Shotoku, and gave some brief advice to each of them.
		He stated the last words of the Empress Suiko suggested her will had been on Tamura.
	www.prescriptiondrug-info.com /drug_information_online.asp?title=Emperor_Jomei (260 words)

	Emperors and Empresses of Japan - China History Forum, chinese history forum
		The semi-mythical Empress Jingu is even supposed to have led an invasion of Korea in the 3rd century while pregnant with the child of her late husband the emperor (this son was later deified as the Japanese war god Hachiman).
		Suiko was the daughter of Emperor Kimmei (r.
		Suiko reigned from 592 to 629, and was then succeeded by Emperor Jomei (r.
	www.chinahistoryforum.com /index.php?showtopic=2017 (3244 words)

	japan,emperors,history,cartoonbuddy,.com,cartoon buddy club
		Japans ancestors were migrants from the mainland of Asia, the earliest known being the Ainu clan who arrived around 15000 BC to populate the islands.
		The first Emperor was said to be Jimmu Tenno 660 BC but the general history involves only legends up to 98 BC and cannot be proven to any great degree.
		Around 450 AD the Yamato clan united the population and lay claim to being the ancestors of the Imperial line.
	www.cartoonbuddy.com /japan.htm (349 words)

	Japan: A History To 1868
		The Yamato period, which lasted from circa 300 to 593, is the period when Japan "took its first steps to nationhood" because the ancestors of the present tenno, or "emperor of heaven", brought several small states under unified rule.
		The unification of the states under one court and tenno happened at about the mid-4th century at its latest, but may have happened earlier than 413.
		In the beginning of this period, the prince Shotoku was chosen as a regent for the empress Suiko, his aunt who was the first female to attend the throne.
	www.pinters.com /reports/AncientJapan.shtml (686 words)

	The Yamato State
		It states the Confucian belief that the universe is composed of three realms, Heaven, Man, and Earth, and that the Emperor is placed in authority by the will of Heaven in order to guarantee the welfare of his subjects.
		The "great king" of earlier Japanese history would be replaced by the Tenno, or "Heavenly Emperor." The Seventeen Article Constitution stressed the Confucian virtues of harmony, regularity, and the importance of the moral development of government officials.
		The new emperor, Kotoku Tenno (645-655), began an energetic reform movement that culminated in the Taika Reform Edicts in 645
	www.wsu.edu:8080 /~dee/ANCJAPAN/YAMATO.HTM (969 words)

	Schulers Books (Japan: An Attempt at Interpretation - 30/62)
		It has been customary to speak of Japanese history as beginning with the accession of Jimmu Tenno, alleged to have reigned from 660 to 585 B.C., and to have lived for one hundred and twenty-seven years.
		But trustworthy history does not begin for a thousand years after the accession of Jimmu Tenno; and the chronicles of those thousand years must be regarded as little better than fairy-tales.
		With the firm establishment of Buddhism in the reign of that Empress (593-628 A.D.), we reach the period of authentic history, and of the thirty-third Japanese sovereign counting from Jimmu Tenno.
	www.schulers.com /books/la/j/Japan__An_Attempt_at_Interpretation/Japan__An_Attempt_at_Interpretation30.htm (1610 words)

	Did this really happen? - China History Forum, chinese history forum
		As I understand the situation then, Suiko was rather a non-entity in terms of authority the rubber stamp for the Soga (primarily in the form of her regent Shotoku)
		Suiko was known for her character and abilities, so I don't believe that she had nothing to do with state affairs, however.
		They did this by addressing Suiko not as Wowang (King of Wo), which was what the Chinese Imperial Court had always referred to the Japanese ruler as, but as Tianzhi (Son of Heaven) a title that the Chinese believed they alone could claim.
	www.chinahistoryforum.com /index.php?showtopic=6771&view=old (2085 words)

	Atelier Aterui: Image Index: Ikaruga, Nara
		Prince Regent Shotoku (Shotoku-taishi, A.D.574-622), the legendary politician supporting his aunt Empress Suiko (Suiko-tenno), decided to move the capital from Asuka and build the new palace in Ikaruga in 601 (burnt in 643).
		Bhaisajyaguru: a buddha of healing) statue in the Main Hall, which states to the follwoing effect: "Emperor Yomei falling ill in the first year of his reign (A.D. 586), wished to have a statue of "Yakushi Nyorai," made for him, but he passed away prior to the realization of the project.
		The statue was finished in the fifteenth year of the Empress Suiko's reign, and the temple was established for the statue." This is the beginning of Horyu-ji Temple.
	p-www.iwate-pu.ac.jp /~acro-ito/Japan_pics/Japan_IKR/imageidx.html (1723 words)

	Japan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		While there certainly have been forcible depositions, assassinations, and revolts at times, the large number is simply a reflection of a tendency within the culture to retire from the burdens of official life after a time.
		In the case of the Tennos ("Emperors"), they often settled in monasteries, where they continued to exert influence over their successors from the privileged position of elder statesmen.
		In official chronicles, Jimmu Tenno is said to have ruled circa 600 BCE, but this is only possible if his next ten or more successors lived the impossibly long life-spans they are credited with in the court histories.
	www.hostkingdom.net /japan.html (1429 words)

	Horyuji Temple, Nara
		Particularly notable are the figure of Kudara-Kannon, a Korean work whose smooth lines contrast with the rigid forms of Japanese sculpture of the same period; a wooden figure of the Nine-Headed Kannon; and a figure of Yumetagai-Kannon, who turns bad dreams into good ones (dating, like the Nine-Headed Kannon, from the Hakuho period).
		In the southern building of the Great Treasury are items from the Main Hall, including the Tamamushi-no-zushi, a miniature shrine (8ft/ 2.4m high) which belonged to the Empress Suiko.
		The shrine owes its name to the tamamushi, a species of insect whose multi-colored wings were originally used to decorate certain parts of the shrine (no longer visible).
	www.planetware.com /nara/horyuji-temple-jpn-ks-hory.htm (1255 words)

	Shitenno-ji \| Osaka Sights & Activities \| Fodor's Online Travel Guide
		The founder, Umayado no Mikoto (573-621), posthumously known as Prince Shotoku (Shotoku Taishi), is considered one of early Japan's most enlightened rulers for his furthering of Buddhism and his political acumen.
		He was made regent over his aunt, Suiko, and set about instituting reforms and establishing Buddhism as the state religion.
		Buddhism had been introduced to Japan from China and Korea in the early 500s, but it was seen as a threat to the aristocracy, which claimed prestige and power based upon its godlike ancestry.
	www.fodors.com /miniguides/mgresults.cfm?destination=osaka@113&cur_section=sig&property_id=135085 (317 words)

	Flowers Will Bloom
		Empress Suiko, the twenty-eight-year-old wife of the former Yamato emperor Bidatsu, took the Yamato throne in the Asuka district in 592, becoming the first reigning Japanese empress in recorded history.
		Just one year after Empress Suiko came to power, her nephew Umako selected twenty-year-old Crown Prince Shotoku Taishi as regent of the Yamato court.
		With his constitution as a core, Prince Shotoku gradually succeeded in centralizing government under the authority of the Yamato rulers, who were now the imperial rulers of Japan.
	www.koreanhistoryproject.org /Ket/C03/E0301.htm (3447 words)

	The Japan Society of the UK
		There seem to have been shaman queens in early times but the first person to hold the title of tenno was the empress Suiko in 593.
		One reason for this was the influence of Confucian attitudes adopted by the Japanese; these gave precedence to men and led to male chauvinism which is still a strong element in Japanese culture.
		According to the Yoro code of 718 tenno was to be used in imperial rescripts, tenshi in ceremonies, kotei in correspondence with 'barbarians' and heika in addressing the emperor.
	www.japansociety.org.uk /reviews/05enigma.html (1095 words)

	Chinese-Style Monarchy - History - Japan - Asia
		The introduction of the Chinese political model in Japan is often attributed to Shotoku Taishi, a member of the Yamato lineage and regent to the female ruler Suiko.
		To do this, the reforms abolished the clan chieftains’ control over local land and people, dispatched provincial officials to supplant them, and promulgated a new system of ranks, taxation, and administration.
		In 710 the reorganized imperial court established a new Chinese-style capital at Heijo-kyo (the modern city of Nara).
	www.countriesquest.com /asia/japan/history/chinese-style_monarchy.htm (895 words)

	AllRefer.com - Japan - Kofun And Asuka Periods, Ca. A.D. 250-710 \| Japanese Information Resource
		The Soga had intermarried with the imperial family, and by A.D. 587 Soga Umako, the Soga chieftain, was powerful enough to install his nephew as emperor and later to assassinate him and replace him with the Empress Suiko (r.
		A.D. Suiko, the first of eight sovereign empresses, was merely a figurehead for Umako and Prince Regent Shotoku Taishi (A.D. Shotoku, recognized as a great intellectual of this period of reform, was a devout Buddhist, well read in Chinese literature.
		This new title was intended to improve the Yamato clan's image and to emphasize the divine origins of the imperial family in the hope of keeping it above political frays, such as those precipitated by the Soga clan.
	reference.allrefer.com /country-guide-study/japan/japan16.html (1640 words)

	Online dictionary of history and traditions in Japan: china
		explanation: Suiko is the first empress of Japan of whom existence is certified.
		Born in 554 as a daughter of Soga clan and became the wife of Emperor Kinmei.
		With her nephew and regent, prince Shotoku, she strove to strengthen Yamato dynasty: not only she legislated many laws such as the constitution with 17 articles, but sent several missions to China (Kenzui-shi) to increase Japanese prestige.
	www.docoja.com:8080 /jisho/keyword?dbname=histg&keyword=china (1007 words)

	Asuka
		The Palace and its Soverign Emperor (Tenno) or Empress (Kogo) came to be the focus of a bustling Capital of a unified Japanese Nation.
		Traditionally the palace had been surrounded and supported by a group of clans historically associated with the Tenno who assisted him in the heroic age of the descent of the God's.
		On the Korean peninsula the tide of war was ebbing in favor.
	terryq14.tripod.com /Asuka/history.htm (665 words)

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		The Suiko he mentions was a Japanese Empress in the 6th century.
		We're not sure whether we can accept this citation at face value -- such early histories of many cultures mix mythology with fact -- but even so, there's no particular reason to believe that a 6th century name remained in use for 500 years.
		Sometimes he was called Tenshi, or 'Son of Heaven; usually Tenno, or 'Heavenly King"; rarely Mikado or 'August Gateway'." He also mentions a 7th century Emperor Tenchi, but that is probably not the same word.
	www.panix.com /~gabriel/public-bin/showfinal.cgi/2571.txt (392 words)

	Japan Heads
		) but today it means female Tenno, and tenno is the title used for both male and female rulers).
		She was the descendant of the Sun Goddess and was succeeded by grandson.
		mperor Murakami she was very influential during the reign of her sons, and was the mother of the Tennos Reizei (967-969) and En-yu (969-984).
	www.guide2womenleaders.com /japan_heads.htm (1357 words)

	El trono imperial del japon y sus emperatrices
		Casó con su tío el Emperador Jomei Tenno, a cuya muerte (641) ascendió al trono imperial, con el nombre de Kogyoku Tenno.
		Cuando éstos fueron asesinados, abdicó en favor de su hermano Kotoku Tenno (644).
		Ascendió al trono con el nombre de Myosho Tenno cuando aún era muy niña, por abdicación de su padre (1630), y durante su corto reinado el poder efectivo se mantuvo en manos de su tío el Shogun.
	www.conoceelmundo.com /2007/02/09/el-trono-imperial-del-japon-y-sus-emperatrices.html (698 words)

	Early Japan
		In the aftermath of this great victory, Umako arranged for Prince Hatsusebe to succeed Yomei, and in September of 587 the Emperor Sujun took the throne.
		At the same time Umako named the late Yomei's son as Regent (Sessho) to Suiko, a capacity in which he acted until 622.
		The regent became known as Shotoku Taishi, a remarkable figure in the shaping of Japanese culture and perhaps Japan's first statesman.
	www.samurai-archives.com /earlyjapan.html (4120 words)

	List of Japanese Emperors
		The previous three Emperors are officially called by their era name in Japan.
		Akihito is currently referred to as Tenno Heika, in Japanese as he is the reigning emperor, even though his era is called Heisei.
		In English, Akihito is referred to by name.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/li/List_of_Emperors_of_Japan.html (83 words)

	Asuka
		During this period, the Japanese palaces of the Royal Family (Tenno clan) remained in the Asuka region, located inside the current Nara prefecture.
		He is credited as the one who developed the term for Japan as Nihon (Japan's name in Japanese) and for O'kimi (King) as Tenno (Emperor) which appeared in this period for first time.
		In contrast to Emperor Tenji's strong favor to Buddhism, lasting since the Soga age, Emperor Tenmu paid significant attention to the existence of a Japanese local religion (Shinto) in addition to Buddhism.
	www.mnsu.edu /emuseum/prehistory/japan/asuka/asuka-period.html (1141 words)

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