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Kōgyoku
Sign in to saveAlso known as Empress Samimei, Kōgyoku-tennō, Saimei-tennō, Empress Kogyoku, Empress Kougyoku, Empress Kōgyoku
Empress of Japan
Key facts
- Reign
- 19 February 642 – 12 July 645
- Predecessor
- Jomei
- Successor
- Kōtoku
- Tenure
- 630 – 641
- Born
- Takara ( 宝 ) , 7 August 594, Japan
- Died
- 24 August 661 (aged 66–67), Asakura no Miya
- Burial
- Ochi-no-Okanoe no misasagi (越智崗上陵) (Nara)
- Spouses
- Prince Takamuku Emperor Jomei
- Issue
- Prince Kara Emperor Tenji Princess Hashihito Emperor Tenmu
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- Japan
- Sibling
- Kōtoku
- Occupation
- writer
- Position held
- Josei Tenno
- Languages spoken
- Japanese
- Family
- Imperial House of Japan
- Image
- Empress Kogyoku-Saimei.jpg
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- Commons category
- Empress Saimei
- date of birth
- 0594-00-00
- date of death
- 0661-08-24
- name in native language
- 斉明天皇
- name in kana
- こうぎょく てんのう
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Encyclopedic overview
HouseImperial House of Japan FatherPrince Chinu [ja] MotherPrincess Kibitsu-hime
Empress Kōgyoku (皇極天皇, Kōgyoku-tennō; 7 August 594 – 24 August 661), also known as Empress Saimei (斉明天皇, Saimei-tennō), was the 35th and 37th monarch of Japan, according to the traditional order of succession. Both her reigns were within the Asuka period.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kōgyoku” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.