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Emperor Seinei

Emperor Seinei
清寧天皇
Emperor of Japan
Reign480 – 484 (traditional)[1]
PredecessorYūryaku
SuccessorKenzō
(or possibly Princess Iitoyo)
BornShiraka (白髪)
444[2][3][4]
Died484(484-00-00) (aged 39–40)[5]
Iware no Mikakuri Palace
Burial
Kawachi no Sakado no hara no misasagi (河内坂門原陵) (Osaka)
Posthumous name
Chinese-style shigō:
Emperor Seinei (清寧天皇)

Japanese-style shigō:
Shiraka-no-takehiro-kunioshiwaka-yamato-neko no Sumeramikoto (白髪武広国押稚日本根子天皇)
HouseImperial House of Japan
FatherEmperor Yūryaku[2]
MotherKatsuragi no Karahime[6]

Emperor Seinei (清寧天皇, Seinei-tennō) (444 – 484) was the 22nd emperor of Japan, according to the traditional order of succession.[7][8]

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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 480 to 484.[10]

  1. ^ "Genealogy of the Emperors of Japan" (PDF). Kunaicho.go.jp. Archived from the original (PDF) on March 22, 2011. Retrieved March 27, 2024.
  2. ^ a b "Genealogy". Reichsarchiv (in Japanese). 30 April 2010. Retrieved March 27, 2024.
  3. ^ Joseph Henry Longford (1923). "List of Emperors: II. The Dawn of History and The great Reformers". Japan. Houghton Mifflin. p. 304.
  4. ^ Kenneth Henshall (2013). Historical Dictionary of Japan to 1945. Scarecrow Press. p. 488. ISBN 9780810878723.
  5. ^ Brown, Delmer M. (1979). "(23) Emperor Seinei". A Translation and Study of the Gukanshō, an Interpretative History of Japan Written in 1219. Gukanshō. p. 258. ISBN 978-0-520-03460-0.
  6. ^ Ponsonby-Fane, Richard (1915). "Table of Emperors Mothers". The Imperial Family of Japan. Ponsonby Memorial Society. p. xiii.
  7. ^ Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). Annales des empereurs du japon (in French). Royal Asiatic Society, Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain and Ireland. pp. 28–29.
  8. ^ "雄略天皇 (22)". Imperial Household Agency (Kunaichō) (in Japanese). Retrieved December 27, 2024.
  9. ^ Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). Annales des empereurs du japon, pp. 28–29; Brown, Delmer M. (1979). Gukanshō, pp. 258–259; Varley, H. Paul. (1980). Jinnō Shōtōki, pp. 115–116.
  10. ^ Ponsonby-Fane, Richard. (1959). The Imperial House of Japan, p. 41.

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