Emperor Senka
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No firm dates can be assigned to this emperor's life or reign, but he is conventionally considered to have reigned from 25 January 536 to 15 March 539,[3] the end of the Kofun period, which was followed by the Asuka period.
Legendary narrative
Senka is considered to have ruled the country during the early-6th century, but there is a paucity of information about him. There is insufficient material available for further verification and study.
When Emperor Ankan died, he had no offspring; and succession passed to his youngest brother Script error: No such module "Nihongo"., who will come to be known as Emperor Senka. Emperor Senka was elderly at the time of his enthronement; and his reign is said to have endured for only three years.
Senka's contemporary title would not have been tennō, as most historians believe this title was not introduced until the reigns of Emperor Tenmu and Empress Jitō. Rather, it was presumably Script error: No such module "Nihongo"., meaning "the great king who rules all under heaven". Alternatively, Senka might have been referred to as Script error: No such module "Lang".Template:Category handler or the "Great King of Yamato".
During this reign, Soga no Iname[4] is believed to have been the first verifiable Omi (also Ōomi, "Great Minister").
The Emperor is traditionally venerated at a memorial Shinto shrine (misasagi) at Nara. The Imperial Household Agency designates this location as Senka's mausoleum.[1] It is formally named Musa no Tsukisaka no e no misasagi;[5] however, the actual sites of the graves of the early Emperors remain problematic, according to some historians and archaeologists.
Genealogy
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- Script error: No such module "Nihongo"., married to Emperor Kinmei
- Script error: No such module "Nihongo"., married to Emperor Kinmei
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- Child (died early, gender unknown)
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- Mother unknown
- Script error: No such module "Nihongo"., married to Emperor Kinmei
- Script error: No such module "Nihongo"., speculated as Emperor Kinmei's son
See also
Notes
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- ↑ a b Imperial Household Agency (Kunaichō): 宣化天皇 (28)
- ↑ Varley, Paul. (1980). Jinnō Shōtōki, p. 121; Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). Template:Trim&pg=PA33 Annales des empereurs du japon, pp. 33–34., p. 33, at Google Books
- ↑ Ponsonby-Fane, Richard. (1959). The Imperial House of Japan, p. 45.
- ↑ Titsingh, p. 33.
- ↑ Ponsonby-Fane, p. 419.
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References
- Aston, William George. (1896). Nihongi: Chronicles of Japan from the Earliest Times to A.D. 697. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner. Template:Catalog lookup link
- Brown, Delmer M. and Ichirō Ishida, eds. (1979). Gukanshō: The Future and the Past. Berkeley: University of California Press. Template:ISBN; Template:Catalog lookup link
- Ponsonby-Fane, Richard Arthur Brabazon. (1959). The Imperial House of Japan. Kyoto: Ponsonby Memorial Society. Template:Catalog lookup link
- Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). Nihon Ōdai Ichiran; ou, Annales des empereurs du Japon. Paris: Royal Asiatic Society, Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain and Ireland. Template:Catalog lookup link
- Varley, H. Paul. (1980). Jinnō Shōtōki: A Chronicle of Gods and Sovereigns. New York: Columbia University Press. Template:ISBN; Template:Catalog lookup link