Emperor Rokujō
Emperor Rokujō (六条天皇 Rokujō-tennō) (December 28, 1164 – August 23, 1176) was the 79th emperor of Japan, according to the traditional order of succession. His reign spanned the years from 1165 through 1168.[1]
Genealogy
Before his ascension to the Chrysanthemum Throne, his personal name (his imina)[2] was Nobuhito-shinnō.[3] He was as Yoshihito- or Toshihito-shinnō.[4]
He was the son of Emperor Nijō. He left no children.
Events of Rokujō-tennō's life
He was made Crown Prince before his first birthday, and was enthroned at the age of one.
- Chōkan 3, on the 25th day of the 6th month (1165): In the 7th year of Nijō-tennō's reign (桓武天皇7年), the emperor fell so very ill that he abdicated; and the succession (‘‘senso’’) was received by a his son. Shortly thereafter, Emperor Rokujō is said to have acceded to the throne (‘‘sokui’’).[5]
He was pressured by the Taira clan to abdicate in favor of his uncle, who became Emperor Takakura.
- Nin'an 3, in the 2nd month (1168): Rokujō was deposed at age 5, and he received the title "Taïzio-ten-o" and the name "Sin-in".[6]
Rokujō died at the age of eleven. Because of his youth, he had neither consorts nor children. Government affairs were run by his grandfather, Retired Emperor Go-Shirakawa as cloistered emperor.
Kugyō
Kugyō (公卿) is a collective term for the very few most powerful men attached to the court of the Emperor of Japan in pre-Meiji eras.
In general, this elite group included only three to four men at a time. These were hereditary courtiers whose experience and background would have brought them to the pinnacle of a life's career. During Rokujō's reign, this apex of the Daijō-kan included:
- Sesshō, Konoe Motozane, 1143-1166.[7]
- Sesshō, Matsu Motofusa, 1144-1230.[8]
- Daijō-daijin, Fujiwara Koremichi 1093-1165.[9]
- Daijō-daijin, Taira Kiyomori, 1118-1181.[10]
- Sadaijin, Matsu Motofusa.[11]
- Sadaijin, Ōimikado Tsunemune, 1119-1189.[12]
- Udaijin, Kujō Kanezane, 1149-1207.[13]
- Nadaijin, Fujiwara Tadamasa.[14]
- Dainagon
Eras of Emperor Rokujō-tennō's reign
The years of Rokujō's reign are more specifically identified by more than one era name or nengō.[15]
References
- ^ Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). Annales des emepeurs du japon, pp. 194-195; Brown, Delmer et al. (1979). Gukanshō, pp. 329-330; Varley, H. Paul. (1980). Jinnō Shōtōki. p. 212.
- ^ Brown, pp. 264. [Up until the time of Emperor Jomei, the personal names of the emperors (their imina) were very long and people did not generally use them. The number of characters in each name diminished after Jomei's reign.]
- ^ Brown, p. 329; Varley, p. 212.
- ^ Titsingh, p. 194.
- ^ Titsingh, p. 194; Brown, p. 329; Varley, p. 44. [A distinct act of senso is unrecognized prior to Emperor Tenji; and all sovereigns except Jitō, Yōzei, Go-Toba, and Fushimi have senso and sokui in the same year until the reign of Go-Murakami.]
- ^ Titsingh, p. 195.
- ^ Brown, p. 329.
- ^ Brown, p. 329.
- ^ Brown, p. 329.
- ^ Brown, p. 329.
- ^ Brown, p. 329.
- ^ Brown, p. 330.
- ^ Brown, p. 330.
- ^ Brown, p. 330.
- ^ Titsingh, p. 194-195; Brown, p. 328.
- Brown, Delmer M. and Ichirō Ishida, eds. (1979). [ Jien, 1221], Gukanshō (The Future and the Past, a translation and study of the Gukanshō, an interpretative history of Japan written in 1219). Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN 0-520-03460-0
- Titsingh, Isaac, ed. (1834). [Siyun-sai Rin-siyo/Hayashi Gahō, 1652], Nipon o daï itsi ran; ou, Annales des empereurs du Japon, tr. par M. Isaac Titsingh avec l'aide de plusieurs interprètes attachés au comptoir hollandais de Nangasaki; ouvrage re., complété et cor. sur l'original japonais-chinois, accompagné de notes et précédé d'un Aperçu d'histoire mythologique du Japon, par M. J. Klaproth. Paris: Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain and Ireland.--Two copies of this rare book have now been made available online: (1) from the library of the University of Michigan, digitized January 30, 2007; and (2) from the library of Stanford University, digitized June 23, 2006. Click here to read the original text in French.
- Varley, H. Paul , ed. (1980). [ Kitabatake Chikafusa, 1359], Jinnō Shōtōki ("A Chronicle of Gods and Sovereigns: Jinnō Shōtōki of Kitabatake Chikafusa" translated by H. Paul Varley). New York: Columbia University Press. ISBN 0-231-04940-4
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