This list of
emperors of Japan
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presents the traditional order of succession. Records of the reigns are compiled according to the traditional
Japanese calendar
Japanese calendar types have included a range of official and unofficial systems. At present, Japan uses the Gregorian calendar together with year designations stating the year of the reign of the current Emperor. The written form starts with t ...
. In the ''
nengō
The , also known as , is the first of the two elements that identify years in the Japanese era calendar scheme. The second element is a number which indicates the year number within the era (with the first year being ""), followed by the literal ...
'' system which has been in use since the late-seventh century, years are numbered using the
Japanese era name
The , also known as , is the first of the two elements that identify years in the Japanese era calendar scheme. The second element is a number which indicates the year number within the era (with the first year being ""), followed by the literal ...
and the number of years which have taken place since that ''nengō'' era started.
[Nussbaum]
"Nengō" in ''Japan Encyclopedia'', p. 704.
/ref>The sequence, order and dates of the first 28 emperors, and especially the first 16, are based on the Japanese calendar system.
Emperors of Japan
Individuals posthumously recognized as emperors
This is a list of individuals who did not reign as emperor during their lifetime but were later recognized as Japanese emperors posthumously.
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See also
* Emperor of Japan
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* Empress of Japan
The Empress of Japan is the title given to the wife of the Emperor of Japan or a female ruler in her own right. In Japanese, the empress consort is called . The current empress consort is Empress Masako, who ascended the throne with her husband o ...
** List of empresses consort of Japan
* Sesshō and Kampaku
In Japan, was a title given to a regent who was named to act on behalf of either a child Emperor before his coming of age, or an empress regnant. The was theoretically a sort of chief advisor for the Emperor, but was in practice the title of ...
* Shogun
, officially , was the title of the military dictators of Japan during most of the period spanning from 1185 to 1868. Nominally appointed by the Emperor, shoguns were usually the de facto rulers of the country, though during part of the Kamakur ...
** List of shoguns
This article is a list of shoguns that ruled Japan intermittently, as hereditary military dictators, from the beginning of the Asuka period in 709 until the end of the Tokugawa shogunate in 1868.
Asuka / Heian periods (709–1184)
Note: there ar ...
* Prime Minister of Japan
The prime minister of Japan (Japanese: 内閣総理大臣, Hepburn: ''Naikaku Sōri-Daijin'') is the head of government of Japan. The prime minister chairs the Cabinet of Japan and has the ability to select and dismiss its Ministers of Stat ...
** List of prime ministers of Japan
* Family tree of Japanese monarchs
The following is a family tree of the Emperor of Japan, emperors of Japan, from the legendary Emperor Jimmu to the present monarch, Naruhito.
Modern scholars have come to question the existence of at least the first nine emperors; Kōgen's descend ...
* Empress Tsunuzashi
Notes
References
* Ackroyd, Joyce. (1982). ''Lessons from History: the 'Tokushi yoron. Brisbane: University of Queensland Press.
OCLC 157026188
* Brown, Delmer M. and Ichirō Ishida, eds. (1979). ''Gukanshō: The Future and the Past''. Berkeley: University of California Press.
OCLC 251325323
* Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). ''Nihon Ōdai Ichiran
, ', is a 17th-century chronicle of the serial reigns of Japanese emperors with brief notes about some of the noteworthy events or other happenings.
According to the 1871 edition of the ''American Cyclopaedia'', the 1834 French translation of ...
''; ou
''Annales des empereurs du Japon''.
Paris: Royal Asiatic Society, Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain and Ireland
OCLC 5850691
* Varley, H. Paul. (1980). ''Jinnō Shōtōki: A Chronicle of Gods and Sovereigns''. New York: Columbia University Press.
OCLC 59145842
External links
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