Sutoku

The emperor Sutoku (崇徳天皇, Sutoku Tennō , July 7th 1119 - September 14th 1164) was the sixty-fifteenth emperor Japan, according to the traditional order of the succession, and reigned nominally of 1123 to the January 5th 1142, the capacity in the facts being exerted by his great-grandfather, the emperor withdrawn Shirakawa, then by his father the emperor Toba. Its personal name was prince Akihito (顕仁, to note that the Kanji composing its name are different from those of the current emperor Akihito).

Genealogy

Sutoku was the oldest son of the emperor Toba and Fujiwara No Shoshi. According to certain old men books, Sutoku would not be in fact not the son of Toba but of the father of this one, the emperor Shirakawa.

Empress and concubines

Fujiwara No Seishi (1121 - 1181), girl of Fujiwara No Tadamichi and Fujiwara No Soshi; entry with the Palate in 1129; imperial wife 6 II 1129; empress (chugu) 1 IV 1130; empress dowager (kotaigo) 25 I 1142; titrated Kokamon-In 27 III 1150; nun Shojoe 25 XI 1156 + 11 I 1182

Girl of the Shin bonze, small son of Fujiwara No Tsunesuke; adopted girl of Minamoto No Yukimune (Sanjo Genji); ° (1120); called lady Hyoe No Suke, lady of the Palate; + after 1170, mother of:

Prince Shigehito; ° 1140; imperial prince 31 XII 1141; entered in religion 2 VIII 1156; + 13 II 1162

a girl of Minamoto No Morotsune; mother of

Prince Gensho ° ap 1140; + ap 1183; adoptee by the Toshi princess (Josaimon-In); bonze

Biography

In 1123, under the pressure of the emperor withdrawn Shirakawa, the Toba emperor abdicates in favor of his Akihito son, 4 years old. Being given the young age of the new emperor, Shirakawa can thus continue to control de facto Japan until its death in 1129, Toba taking over then, and forcing it in its turn to withdraw throne in 1142, in favor of his/her half-brother Konoe.

In 1151, Toba orders the compilation of the anthology of Waka Shikashū .

In 1156, with died of Toba, a fight for the capacity occurs between Sutoku, and the emperor in title, Go-Shirakawa. This last carries this civil war, known then under the name of “Rébellion of Hōgen”, and Sutoku is exiled in the Province of Sanuki (current the Préfecture of Kagawa, on the island of Shikoku.)

Eras of its reign

Hōan (1120-1124)
Tenji (1124-1126)
Daiji (1126-1131)
Tenshō (1131-1132)
Chōshō (1132-1135)
Hōen (1135-1141)
Eiji (1141-1142)

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