Emperor Sutoku (崇徳天皇, Sutoku-tennō, July 7, 1119 – September 14, 1164) was the 75th emperor of Japan, according to the traditional order of succession...

Kinzane‘s daughter First Son: Imperial Prince Akihito (顕仁親王) later Emperor Sutoku First Daughter: Imperial Princess Yoshiko/Kishi (禧子内親王; 1122–1133) –...

disinheriting Sutoku's line, after Sutoku had already previously been made to abdicate in favour of Konoe, infuriated the retired Emperor. On July 20,...

was focused on three figures in 1155. After the former Emperor Toba and the former Emperor Sutoku abdicated, each intended to continue to wield various...

cruel, deranged, egotistical, selfish, bloodthirsty, and cold-hearted. Emperor Sutoku, Taira no Masakado, and Sugawara no Michizane are called the Three Great...

of Sutoku-tennō's reign (崇徳天皇十八年), the emperor abdicated; and the succession (senso) was received by a younger brother, the 8th son of former Emperor Toba...

Japan has been ruled by emperors since antiquity. The sequence, order and dates of the early emperors are almost entirely based on the 8th-century Nihon...

21. On the 27th, the next day after the imperial envoy was sent to Emperor Sutoku to read out the decree in front of his spirit on the 26th of the same...

revolving around the ex-emperor Sutoku and his ghostly encounter with the poet Saigyō. The failure of the attempt by retired emperor Sutoku to seize power in...

Taikenmon'in (待賢門院), was an empress consort of Emperor Toba of Japan, and mother of Emperor Sutoku and Emperor Go-Shirakawa. She was the eldest daughter of...

of the 8th month (1164):The former-Emperor Sutoku died at the age of 46. Eiman 1 (1165): The infant son of Emperor Nijō was named heir apparent and therefore...

influence. In 1140, she adopted Emperor Sutoku's first son Prince Shigehito (重仁親王). In late 1141, Toba pressed Sutoku to abdicate the throne and replaced...

became Emperor Sutoku. By the time of his death in 1129, he had ruled as cloistered Emperor for 41 years and through the reigns of three emperors who were...

Daijō Tennō or Dajō Tennō (太上天皇) is a title for an Emperor of Japan who abdicates the Chrysanthemum Throne in favour of a successor. As defined in the...

1156, Tadamichi sided with the Emperor Go-Shirakawa, while his brother Fujiwara no Yorinaga sided with Emperor Sutoku. In 1162, he ordained as a Buddhist...

(2010) Mitsu no Aji: A Taste of Honey (2011) Taira no Kiyomori (2012), Emperor Sutoku Rich Man, Poor Woman (2012) The Negotiator: Behind The Reversion of...

behind Emperor Go-Shirakawa and Fujiwara no Tadamichi, while Yoshitomo's father, Minamoto no Tameyoshi, sided with the retired Emperor Sutoku and Fujiwara...

regions as their retainers. In the struggle to succeed Emperor Toba, former Emperor Sutoku and Emperor Go-Shirakawa, each with his samurai class on his side...

of an emperor of Japan. Tenji (天治) was a Japanese era after Hōan and before Daiji, lasting from 1124 to 1126. The reigning Emperor was Emperor Sutoku....

former Kampaku and Chancellor of the Realm (法性寺入道前関白太政大臣) Retired Emperor Sutoku (崇徳院) Minamoto no Kanemasa (源兼昌) Master of the Left Capital Akisuke...

succession to the throne erupted and the two rival claimants (Emperor Go-Shirakawa and Emperor Sutoku) hired the Taira and Minamoto clans in the hopes of securing...

) Tomb of Emperor Sutoku Mountain Iino Lake Fuchu Kaii Higashiyama Art Museum Memorial Shinto shrine and mausoleum honoring Emperor Sutoku Shiramine Shrine...

Rebellion was in full swing. Cloistered Emperor Toba and Emperor Sutoku warred over who would be the next emperor. The Hōjō clan wisely chose to stay out...

a child emperor before his coming of age, or an empress regnant. The Kampaku (関白) was theoretically a sort of chief advisor for the Emperor, but was...

for his kokugaku interpretation of the legend of Emperor Sutoku, ascribing the cause of the emperor's tragedy to the infiltration of foreign, and especially...

The empress of Japan is the title given to the wife of the Emperor of Japan or a female ruler in her own right. The current empress consort is Empress...

period. In this bifurcated system, an emperor abdicated, but retained power and influence. Those retired emperors who withdrew to live in monasteries (in)...

Following the Hōgen rebellion, in which retired Emperor Sutoku attempted to seize power and enthrone his son, Emperor Go-Shirakawa reigned for only three years...

1933) is a member of the Imperial House of Japan who reigned as the 125th emperor of Japan from 1989 until his abdication in 2019. The era of his rule was...

names originated in 140 BCE in Imperial China, during the reign of the Emperor Wu of Han. As elsewhere in the Sinosphere, the use of era names was originally...