Daru (king)

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Korean spelling
Hangeul 다루
Hanja 多 婁
Revised
Romanization 		Daru
McCune-
Reischauer 		Taru

Daru of Baekje or Taru († 77 ) was from 28 to 77 the second king of Baekje , one of the Three Kingdoms of Korea .

origin

According to the Samguk Sagi , he was Onjo's eldest son . The Samguk Yusa, on the other hand, says that he was the second son. In the 28th year of Onjo's reign (in the 27th year according to Samguk Yusa), i.e. in 10 AD, Daru became crown prince. In the year 28 Onjo died and Daru became king of Baekje. His mother's name is not known. However, he had two younger brothers, as the name of the third son of Onjo is passed down in the two Japanese works Shinsen Shōjiroku and Shoku Nihongi . This was Buyeo Deokjwa in Korea and Tokusa-Ō in Japan. All that is known about him is that he is an ancestor of several Japanese clans.

Samguk Sagi

The oldest surviving written source on the history of Korea is the Samguk Sagi. In this Daru is described as follows: "(...) his nature was magnanimous and he was a man possessed of both commanding presence and widespread esteem." (German: «(…) his nature was magnanimous and he was a man with a strong presence and high reputation»).

Many battles against the Malgal are mentioned during the reign of Daru . However, it is unclear who these Malgal were, since a people described by this name is believed to be in what is now Manchuria , northwest of the Korean kingdom of Goguryeo . Baekje's capital, on the other hand, is located much more south, near today's Seoul . The Malgal are neither the Buyeo, from which Baekje arose, nor the Mahan from the south. It is believed that the Malgal were remnants of the former Chinese commanderships before the Three Kingdoms and Baekje tried to further secure its power as a relatively new empire of the central Korean Peninsula.

Individual interventions in agriculture by Daru are also mentioned. In the autumn of the 11th year of his rule, after a poor grain harvest, he ordered that farmers were no longer allowed to ferment grain to make wine for their own needs. The following winter, he distributed grain to those in need.

Death and legacy

In 77 Daru died and his eldest son Giru succeeded him to the throne. Nothing is known about the name of Giru's mother.

credentials

Individual evidence

  1. ^ JW Best, A History of the Early Korean Kingdom of Paekche, Harvard University Asia Center, London 2006.
  2. ↑ Saeki Arikiyo, Shinsen Shōjiroku no kenkyū, Yoshikawa Kōbunkan 1971.
  3. ^ JW Best, A History of the Early Korean Kingdom of Paekche, Harvard University Asia Center, London 2006, p. 221.
  4. ^ JW Best, A History of the Early Korean Kingdom of Paekche, Harvard University Asia Center, London 2006.
personal data
SURNAME Daru
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Taru from Baekje
BRIEF DESCRIPTION King of Baekje (28 to 77)
DATE OF BIRTH 1st century BC BC or 1st century
DATE OF DEATH 77