- Emperor Buretsu
Emperor Buretsu (武烈天皇 "Buretsu Tennō") (c. 489-507) was the 25th emperor of
Japan , according to the traditional order of succession. [Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). "Annales des empereurs du japon," p. 31; Varley, Paul. (1980). "Jinnō Shōtōki," pp. 117-118.] No firm dates can be assigned to this emperor's life or reign. Buretsu is considered to have ruled the country during the late-5th century and early-6th century, but there is a paucity of information about him. Scholars can only lament that, at this time, there is insufficient material available for further verification and study.Buretsu was a son of
Emperor Ninken and his mother is "Kasuga no Ōiratsume no Kōgō" (春日大郎皇后). His name was Ohatsuse no Wakasazaki no Mikoto (小泊瀬稚鷦鷯尊).According to various records including "
Kojiki " and "Nihonshoki ", he was born on 489 and died onJanuary 7 ,507 and is believed to have ruled from 498 to 507.Buretsu is described as a strongly wicked emperor in "Nihonshoki" likened to
Di Xin of theShang Dynasty but the record in "Kojiki" has no such indication. There are several theories on this difference. Some believe that this was to justify and praise his successorEmperor Keitai who took over under questionable circumstances. In history textbooks available before and duringWorld War II , part of Buretsu's record was intentionally omitted.If Emperor Keitai began a new dynasty as some historians believe, then Buretsu is the last emperor of the first recorded dynasty of Japan. [Aston, William. (1998). "Nihongi," Vol. 1, pp. 393-407.]
References
* Aston, William George. (1896. "
Nihongi : Chronicles of Japan from the Earliest Times to A.D. 697". London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner. [reprinted byTuttle Publishing , Tokyo, 2007. 10-ISBN 0-8048-0984-4; 13-ISBN 978-0-8048-0984-9 (paper)]
* Brown, Delmer M. and Ichirō Ishida, eds. (1979). [Jien , c. 1220] , "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. [http://books.google.com/books?id=18oNAAAAIAAJ&dq=nipon+o+dai+itsi+ran ...Click link for digitized, full-text copy of this book (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 0-231-04940-4ee also
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Emperor of Japan
*List of Emperors of Japan
*Imperial cult
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