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Within Vinony's link graph, Kōken is referenced by 259 other articles, and connects out to sutra, list of Emperors of Japan and Tōdai-ji Temple.
It is catalogued under topics including 718 births, 770 deaths and 8th-century Buddhist nuns.
Its subject is documented across 36 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Reign
- 749–758
- Predecessor
- Shōmu
- Successor
- Junnin
- Born
- Abe ( 阿倍 ) , 718, Heijō-kyō , Japan
- Died
- 770 (770-00-00) (aged 51–52), Heijō-kyō, Japan
- Burial
- Saki Takatsuka Kofun [ ja ]
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- Japan
- Father
- Shōmu
- Mother
- Kōmyō
- Occupation
- emperor
- Position held
- Josei Tenno
- Languages spoken
- Japanese
- Family
- Imperial House of Japan
- Image
- Empress Shōtoku.jpg
- Number of children
- 0
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- date of birth
- 0718-00-00
- date of death
- 0770-08-28
- cause of death
- smallpox
- manner of death
- natural causes
- name in native language
- 孝謙天皇
- Commons category
- Empress Kōken
- different from
- Shōtoku
- name in kana
- こうけん てんのう
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Encyclopedic overview
HouseImperial House of Japan FatherEmperor Shōmu MotherEmpress Kōmyō
Empress Kōken (born Abe, known as Empress Shōtoku during her second reign; 718–770) was the 46th and 48th monarch of Japan according to the traditional order of succession. Seeking to protect the bloodline of Prince Kusakabe, her father, Emperor Shōmu, proclaimed her the first crown princess in Japanese history in 738, and she succeeded her father as empress regnant in 749 after he retired to become a Buddhist monk. With the backing of her mother, Empress Kōmyō, and cousin Fujiwara no Nakamaro, she was able to outmaneuver a largely hostile Daijō-kan (Council of State). Her father died in 756, having named a cousin unrelated to the Fujiwara clan as Kōken's heir; this outraged her maternal Fujiwara relatives and their supporters, and Kōken replaced him with Prince Ōi, a close ally of her mother and Nakamaro. In 757, she headed off a conspiracy to overthrow her by Tachibana no Naramaro, and resigned the following year to serve as empress emerita (Daijō Tennō), while Ōi reigned as Emperor Junnin.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kōken” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.