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*''Born: [[1654]]''
*''Born: [[1654]]''
*''Died: [[1732]]''
*''Died: [[1732]]''
*''Reign: [[1663]]-[[1687]]''
*''Japanese'': 霊元天皇 ''(Reigen tennou)''
*''Japanese'': 霊元天皇 ''(Reigen tennou)''
Emperor Reigen was the 112th [[emperor of Japan]]. He succeeded [[Emperor Go-Sai]] in [[1663]], and reigned until his abdication on [[1687]]/3/21, being succeeded by [[Emperor Higashiyama]].
Emperor Reigen was the 112th [[emperor of Japan]]. He was a son of [[Emperor Go-Mizunoo]] by his consort [[Shin-Kogimon-in|Shin-Kôgimon-in]]. He was the last of Go-Mizunoo's children to reign, succeeding his half-brother [[Emperor Go-Sai]] in [[1663]], and reigning until his abdication on [[1687]]/3/21, at which time he was succeeded by [[Emperor Higashiyama]].
Following a fire on [[1673]]/5/8 which destroyed large parts of the city, including the [[Kyoto Imperial Palace|Imperial Palace]], Emperor Reigen commandeered the [[Konoe family]] mansion, forcing [[Konoe Motohiro]] and his family (including Reigen's full sister, Motohiro's wife, Princess [[Shinanomiya Tsuneko]]) to relocate elsewhere for a time.<ref>Seigle, 10.</ref>
Reigen abdicated in [[1687]] in favor of one of his sons, who then took the throne as [[Emperor Higashiyama]].<ref>Evelyn Rawski, ''Early Modern China and Northeast Asia: Cross-Border Perspectives'', Cambridge University Press (2015), 157.</ref> One of his daughters, [[Yasunomiya Yoshiko]], was betrothed in [[1715]], at the age of two, to Shogun [[Tokugawa Ietsugu]] (then seven years of age), though Ietsugu died the following year before the two were wed.<ref>Watanabe Hiroshi, ''A History of Japanese Political Thought, 1600-1901'', International House of Japan (2012), 153-154.</ref>
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==References==
==References==
*Arai Hakuseki, Joyce Ackroyd (trans.), ''Told Round a Brushwood Fire'', University of Tokyo Press (1979), 315n100.
*Arai Hakuseki, Joyce Ackroyd (trans.), ''Told Round a Brushwood Fire'', University of Tokyo Press (1979), 315n100.
*Cecilia Segawa Seigle, "Shinanomiya Tsuneko: Portrait of a Court Lady," in Anne Walthall (ed.), ''The Human Tradition in Modern Japan'', Scholarly Resources, Inc. (2002), 4-5.
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