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Prince Shōtoku
Sign in to saveAlso known as Jōgū Taishi, Shōtoku Taishi, Kamitsumiya no Umayado no Toyotomimi no Mikoto, Prince Kamitsumiya, Umayado, Prinzregent Shōtoku Taishi Japan, Prince Shotoku, Prince Shoutoku
semi-legendary Japanese prince (574–622)
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Prince Shōtoku (574–622) was a Japanese politician and regent. Born at Tachibana-dera Temple, he was the son of Yōmei and Anahobe no Hashihito no Himemiko. His notable work includes the Seventeen-article constitution. He is associated with Buddhism in Japan and spoke Japanese.
Shōtoku had a son named Prince Yamashiro. His writings were produced in Japanese, with one work listed in Open Library titled *Shōtoku taishi shū*. Crossref records five works attributed to him. He is distinct from the entity Shōtoku.
Synthesized by Vinony from 32 facts across 6 sources: Wikidata, Open Library, MusicBrainz, Crossref, Last.fm, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 574
- Died
- 622
- Works
- 1
Top works
- Shōtoku taishi shū
via Open Library + Wikidata
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 2
- Total plays
- 3
<a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Prince+Sh%C5%8Dtoku">Read more on Last.fm</a>
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) for 291 diseases and injuries in 21 regions, 1990–2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010
· 2012 · cited 6,815x
- Years lived with disability (YLDs) for 1160 sequelae of 289 diseases and injuries 1990–2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010
· 2012 · cited 6,625x
- The Immune Landscape of Cancer
· 2018 · cited 4,772x
- Global incidence, prevalence, years lived with disability (YLDs), disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs), and healthy life expectancy (HALE) for 371 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories and 811 subnational locations, 1990–2021: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021
· 2024 · cited 4,501x
- Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (3rd edition)
· 2016 · cited 4,417x
via Crossref · CC0
Quotes
- “A key point of the texts attributed to Shotoku is that if rulers and bureaucrats believe they are the owners rather than the servants of the law, corruption will follow.Corruption was already a problem in the 7th century, and the Shotoku writings define it as privileging the officials’ private interests over the public ones.…Manipulating the public in the interest of the private is the very definition of corruption.”
via Wikiquote · CC BY-SA
Key facts
- Regency
- 593–April 8, 622
- Born
- February 7, 574
- Died
- April 8, 622 (622-04-08) (aged 48)
- Burial
- Eifukuji North Kofun [ ja ]
- Spouse
- Uji no Kaitako [ ja ] , Tojiko no Iratsume [ ja ]
- Issue
- Prince Yamashiro , Princess Tsukishine
- House
- Imperial House of Japan
- Father
- Emperor Yōmei
- Mother
- Princess Hashihito no Anahobe
- Religion
- Buddhism
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Japan
- Place of birth
- Tachibana-dera Temple
- Father
- Yōmei
- Occupation
- politician
- Position held
- regent
- Languages spoken
- Japanese
- Religion
- Buddhism in Japan
- Image
- Prince Shotoku with Two Princes by Kano Osanobu 1842.png
Show 8 more facts
- Commons category
- Prince Shōtoku
- date of birth
- 0574-02-07
- date of death
- 0622-04-08
- topic's main category
- Category:Prince Shōtoku
- name in native language
- 聖徳太子
- different from
- Shōtoku
- name in kana
- しょうとく たいし
- writing language
- Japanese
Sources (3)
via Wikidata · CC0
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Encyclopedic overview
Prince Shōtoku (聖徳太子, Shōtoku Taishi; February 7, 574 – April 8, 622), also known as Prince Umayado (厩戸皇子, Umayado no ōjî, Umayado no miko) or Prince Kamitsumiya (上宮皇子, Kamitsumiya no ōji, Kamitsumiya no miko), was a semi-legendary regent and a politician of the Asuka period in Japan who served under Empress Suiko. He was the son of Emperor Yōmei and his consort, Princess Hashihito no Anahobe, who was also Yōmei's younger half-sister. But later, he was adopted by Prince Shōtoken. His parents were relatives of the ruling Soga clan and also he was involved in the defeat of the rival Mononobe clan. The primary source of the life and accomplishments of Prince Shōtoku comes from the Nihon Shoki. The Prince is renowned for modernizing the government administration and for promoting Buddhism in Japan. He also had two different families that fought over his custody.
Over successive generations, a devotional cult arose around the figure of Prince Shōtoku for the protection of Japan, the Imperial Family, and for Buddhism. Key religious figures such as Saichō, Shinran and others claimed inspiration or visions attributed to Prince Shōtoku.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Prince Shōtoku” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.