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{{Short description|Late 600's Japanese legal code}}{{Use mdy dates|date = February 2019}}

The {{Nihongo|'''Ōmi Code'''|近江令|ōmiryō}} are a collection of governing rules compiled in 668AD, and the first collection of [[Ritsuryō]] laws in [[classical Japan]]. These laws were compiled by [[Fujiwara no Kamatari]] under the order of [[Emperor Tenji]]. This collection of laws is now lost and its disputed existence is supported only by short references in later documents (among which the ''[[Tōshi Kaden]]'', a history of the Fujiwara). It is furthermore missing from the ''[[Nihon Shoki]]''.

The Code, consisting of 22 volumes, was promulgated in the last year of Tenji's reign.<ref>{{Cite book | last=Ponsonby-Fane | first=Richard | title=The Imperial House of Japan | year=1959 | page=52}}</ref> This legal codification is no longer extant, but it is said to have been refined in what is known as the [[Asuka Kiyomihara Code|Asuka Kiyomihara ''ritsu-ryō'']] of 689; and these are understood to have been a forerunner of the Taihō ''ritsu-ryō'' of 701.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Varley |first=H. Paul |authorlink= |editor-last=Varley |editor-first=H. Paul |title=Jinnō Shōtōki ("A Chronicle of Gods and Sovereigns: Jinnō Shōtōki of Kitabatake Chikafusa") |trans-title= |edition= |year=1980 |orig-year=1359 |publisher=[[Columbia University Press]] |location=New York |isbn=0-231-04940-4 |pages=136 |chapter= |quote= |others=[[Kitabatake Chikafusa]] }}</ref>

==See also==
* [[Ritsuryō]]
* [[Taihō Code]]
* [[Yōrō Code]]
* [[Asuka Kiyomihara Code]]

==Notes==
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==References==
* [[Richard Ponsonby-Fane|Ponsonby-Fane]], Richard Arthur Brabazon. (1959). [https://books.google.com/books?id=SLAeAAAAMAAJ&q=The+Imperial+House+of+Japan  ''The Imperial House of Japan.''] Kyoto: Ponsonby Memorial Society. [http://www.worldcat.org/wcpa/oclc/194887 OCLC 194887]

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[[Category:Lost documents]]
[[Category:Legal history of Japan]]
[[Category:Legal codes]]
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[[Category:7th century in law]]
[[Category:Emperor Tenji]]

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