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*''Born: [[645]]''
*''Died: [[702]]''
*''Reign: [[686]]-[[697]]''
*''Japanese'': 持統天皇 ''(Jitou tennou)''
Empress Jitô is one of the few, prominent reigning empresses in Japanese history.
She succeeded her husband, [[Emperor Temmu]], as sovereign ruler in [[686]] following Temmu's death, in large part in order to ensure the later succession of her grandson. This became all the more strategically necessary after her son, [[Prince Kusakabe]], died suddenly in [[689]]. Her schemes to control the succession extended, too, to falsely accusing another of Temmu's sons, [[Prince Otsu|Prince Ôtsu]], of plotting against the throne.
Jitô abdicated in [[697]] in favor of her grandson, the son of Prince Kusakabe, who took the throne as [[Emperor Monmu]]. Following her own death, Jitô was perhaps the first Emperor/Empress to be cremated, setting a new precedent for imperial burials which was continued from then on.<ref>Amino Yoshihiko. "Deconstructing 'Japan'." East Asian History 3 (1992), 122.</ref>
A number of scholars have suggested that either Jitô, or her predecessor Temmu, were the first to be called ''tennô'' ("[[Emperor]]"), rather than ''ôkimi'' ("Great King/Lord"). In conjunction with this, they argue that we should perhaps consider the reign of Temmu or Jitô as marking the transition from "Wa" or the [[Yamato state]], to the beginnings of a polity we can call "Japan."<ref>[[Albert M. Craig]], ''The Heritage of Japanese Civilization'', Second Edition, Prentice Hall (2011), 17.; [[Amino Yoshihiko]], [[Alan Christy]] (trans.), ''Rethinking Japanese History'', Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan (2012), 247.</ref>
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==References==
*David Lu, ''Sources of Japanese History'', New York: McGraw Hill (1973), 41.
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*''Died: [[702]]''
*''Reign: [[686]]-[[697]]''
*''Japanese'': 持統天皇 ''(Jitou tennou)''
Empress Jitô is one of the few, prominent reigning empresses in Japanese history.
She succeeded her husband, [[Emperor Temmu]], as sovereign ruler in [[686]] following Temmu's death, in large part in order to ensure the later succession of her grandson. This became all the more strategically necessary after her son, [[Prince Kusakabe]], died suddenly in [[689]]. Her schemes to control the succession extended, too, to falsely accusing another of Temmu's sons, [[Prince Otsu|Prince Ôtsu]], of plotting against the throne.
Jitô abdicated in [[697]] in favor of her grandson, the son of Prince Kusakabe, who took the throne as [[Emperor Monmu]]. Following her own death, Jitô was perhaps the first Emperor/Empress to be cremated, setting a new precedent for imperial burials which was continued from then on.<ref>Amino Yoshihiko. "Deconstructing 'Japan'." East Asian History 3 (1992), 122.</ref>
A number of scholars have suggested that either Jitô, or her predecessor Temmu, were the first to be called ''tennô'' ("[[Emperor]]"), rather than ''ôkimi'' ("Great King/Lord"). In conjunction with this, they argue that we should perhaps consider the reign of Temmu or Jitô as marking the transition from "Wa" or the [[Yamato state]], to the beginnings of a polity we can call "Japan."<ref>[[Albert M. Craig]], ''The Heritage of Japanese Civilization'', Second Edition, Prentice Hall (2011), 17.; [[Amino Yoshihiko]], [[Alan Christy]] (trans.), ''Rethinking Japanese History'', Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan (2012), 247.</ref>
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==References==
*David Lu, ''Sources of Japanese History'', New York: McGraw Hill (1973), 41.
[[Category:Asuka Period]]
[[Category:Emperors]]