{"slug": "emperor-kotoku", "label": "Emperor Kōtoku", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emperor_K%C5%8Dtoku", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q317980", "qid": "Q317980", "description": "Emperor of Japan (596–654, r. 645–654)", "entries": 8, "years": 7, "span": [596, 654], "span_label": ["596 CE", "654 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 2}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 2}, {"title": "Births", "count": 1}, {"title": "Health & Medicine", "count": 1}, {"title": "Crime & Justice", "count": 1}, {"title": "Exploration & Expansion", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "japan", "label": "Japan", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "empress-kogyoku", "label": "Empress Kōgyoku", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "china", "label": "China", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "tang-dynasty", "label": "Tang dynasty", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "chang-an", "label": "Chang'an", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "diplomatic-mission", "label": "Diplomatic mission", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "soga-clan", "label": "Soga clan", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "japanese-era-name", "label": "Japanese era name", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 596, "year_label": "596 CE", "section": "Births", "date": null, "text": "Kōtoku, emperor of Japan (d. 654)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364739187#Births", "title": "596", "revid": 1364739187, "section": "Births"}}, {"year": 645, "year_label": "645 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "Empress Kōgyoku is forced to abdicate the throne in favor of her younger brother Kōtoku, age 49, who becomes the 36th emperor of Japan.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1347973672#Japan", "title": "645", "revid": 1347973672, "section": "Events › By place › Japan"}}, {"year": 646, "year_label": "646 CE", "section": "Health & Medicine", "date": null, "text": "Emperor Kōtoku makes a decree about the policies of building tombs. He discontinues the old customs of sacrificing people in honor of a dead man, and forbids ill-considered rituals about purgation.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340804476#Japan", "title": "646", "revid": 1340804476, "section": "Events › By place › Japan"}}, {"year": 649, "year_label": "649 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": null, "text": "Emperor Kōtoku has Soga no Kurayamada accused of treason. He strangles himself at the temple of Yamada-dera. Other relatives of the Soga clan are captured and executed.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365938693#Japan", "title": "649", "revid": 1365938693, "section": "Events › By place › Japan"}}, {"year": 650, "year_label": "650 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "Emperor Kōtoku is presented a white pheasant; he is pleased and begins a new Japanese era name (nengō) to be called Hakuchi, meaning 'The White Pheasant'.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340804422#Asia", "title": "650", "revid": 1340804422, "section": "Events › By place › Asia"}}, {"year": 653, "year_label": "653 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "Emperor Kōtoku sends an embassy to the court of the Tang dynasty in China. Japanese ambassadors, priests and students sail for the capital Chang'an, but some of the ships are lost en route.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367635810#Asia", "title": "653", "revid": 1367635810, "section": "Events › By place › Asia"}}, {"year": 654, "year_label": "654 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "November 24", "text": "November 24 – Kōtoku, emperor of Japan (b. 596)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1362652029#Deaths", "title": "654", "revid": 1362652029, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 654, "year_label": "654 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "November 24", "text": "November 24 – Emperor Kōtoku dies after a 9-year reign; Kōgyoku (his elder sister) is restored on the throne under the name Saimei.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1362652029#Asia", "title": "654", "revid": 1362652029, "section": "Events › By place › Asia"}}]}