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Emperor Suizei

Suizei
Emperor of Japan
Reignlegendary
PredecessorJimmu
SuccessorAnnei
Bornlegendary
Diedlegendary
Burial
Tsukida no oka no e no misasagi (Nara)

Emperor Suizei (綏靖天皇, Suizei-tennō) was the 2nd emperor of Japan,[1] according to the traditional order of succession.[2] Historians consider Emperor Suizei to be a legendary person,[3] and the name Suizei-tennō was created for him after his death by later generations.

No certain dates can be assigned to this emperor's life or reign.[4] The conventionally accepted names and sequence of the early emperors were not to be confirmed as "traditional" until the reign of Emperor Kammu, who was the 50th monarch of the Yamato dynasty.[5]

The Gukanshō records that Suizei ruled from the palace of Takaoka-no-miya at Katsuragi in what will come to be known as Yamato province.[6]

  1. Imperial Household Agency (Kunaichō), 綏靖天皇 (2); retrieved 2011-10-19.
  2. Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). Annales des empereurs du japon, pp. 3-4; Brown, Delmer. (1979). Gukanshō, pp. 250-251; Varley, H. Paul. (1980). Jinnō Shōtōki, pp. 88-89; Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric et al. (2002). "Traditional order of Tennō" in Japan encyclopedia, pp. 962-963.
  3. Kelly, Charles F. "Kofun Culture," Japanese Archaeology. April 27, 2009; retrieved 2011-10-19.
  4. Ponsonby-Fane, Richard. (1959). The Imperial House of Japan, p. 29.
  5. Aston, William George. (1896). Nihongi, pp. 109.
  6. Brown, p. 250.

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