{"slug": "empress-komyo", "label": "Empress Kōmyō", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empress_K%C5%8Dmy%C5%8D", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q837932", "qid": "Q837932", "description": "consort empress of Japan", "entries": 6, "years": 6, "span": [701, 760], "span_label": ["701 CE", "760 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Deaths", "count": 2}, {"title": "Births", "count": 1}, {"title": "Religion & Belief", "count": 1}, {"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 1}, {"title": "Health & Medicine", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "nara-nara", "label": "Nara, Nara", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "emperor-shomu", "label": "Emperor Shōmu", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "japan", "label": "Japan", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "buddhism-in-japan", "label": "Buddhism in Japan", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "empress-koken", "label": "Empress Kōken", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "chinese-buddhism", "label": "Chinese Buddhism", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 701, "year_label": "701 CE", "section": "Births", "date": null, "text": "Kōmyō, empress of Japan (d. 760)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340806807#Births", "title": "701", "revid": 1340806807, "section": "Births"}}, {"year": 747, "year_label": "747 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "Empress Kōmyō founds the Shin-Yakushi-ji Buddhist temple in Nara (Japan).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364468436#Asia", "title": "AD 747", "revid": 1364468436, "section": "Events › By place › Asia"}}, {"year": 749, "year_label": "749 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "August 19", "text": "August 19 – Emperor Shōmu abdicates the throne, after a 25-year reign that has been dominated by his wife (and aunt), Kōmyō, a commoner he married at age 16. He is succeeded by his daughter Kōken; Shōmu becomes the first retired emperor to become a Buddhist priest.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365938976#Japan", "title": "749", "revid": 1365938976, "section": "Events › By place › Japan"}}, {"year": 754, "year_label": "754 CE", "section": "Health & Medicine", "date": null, "text": "Jianzhen, Chinese Buddhist monk, arrives in Nara, where he is welcomed by former emperor Shōmu and empress Kōmyō. During his visit Jianzhen introduces sugar to the Japanese court, using it to mask the flavors of foul-tasting herbal tea.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360259946#Asia", "title": "754", "revid": 1360259946, "section": "Events › By place › Asia"}}, {"year": 756, "year_label": "756 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "June 4", "text": "June 4 – Emperor Shōmu (retired since 749) dies at Nara. His wife Kōmyō dedicates over 600 items to the Great Buddha, and donates large sums of money to the Shōsō-in treasure (storehouse) in Tōdai-ji.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1366654675#Japan", "title": "756", "revid": 1366654675, "section": "Events › By place › Japan"}}, {"year": 760, "year_label": "760 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Kōmyō, empress of Japan (b. 701)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1358120145#Deaths", "title": "760", "revid": 1358120145, "section": "Deaths"}}]}