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Key facts
- Reign
- 686–697
- Predecessor
- Tenmu
- Successor
- Monmu
- Tenure
- 673–686
- Born
- Uno-no-sarara ( 鸕野讚良 ) , 645, Japan
- Died
- January 13, 703 (aged 57–58), Fujiwara-kyō , Japan
- Burial
- Hinokuma-no-Ōuchi no misasagi (檜隈大内陵) (Nara)
- Spouse
- Emperor Tenmu
- Issue
- Prince Kusakabe
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- Japan
- Place of death
- Fujiwara-kyō
- Spouse
- Tenmu
- Child
- Prince Kusakabe
- Father
- Tenji
- Sibling
- Princess Minabe
- Occupation
- politician
- Position held
- Daijō Tennō
- Languages spoken
- Japanese
- Family
- Imperial House of Japan
- Field of work
- waka
- Image
- Empress Jito by Katsukawa Shunsho.png
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- name in native language
- 持統天皇
- Commons category
- Empress Jitō
- date of birth
- 0645-00-00
- date of death
- 0703-01-13
- name in kana
- じとう てんのう
- writing language
- Japanese
- manner of death
- natural causes
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Encyclopedic overview
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Empress Jitō (持統天皇, Jitō-tennō; 645 – January 13, 703) was the 41st monarch of Japan, according to the traditional order of succession.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Jitō” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.