{"slug": "prince-shotoku", "label": "Prince Shōtoku", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Sh%C5%8Dtoku", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q263972", "qid": "Q263972", "description": "semi-legendary Japanese prince (574–622)", "entries": 7, "years": 7, "span": [574, 645], "span_label": ["574 CE", "645 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 5}, {"title": "Births", "count": 1}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "japan", "label": "Japan", "shared": 4}, {"slug": "empress-suiko", "label": "Empress Suiko", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "china", "label": "China", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "sui-dynasty", "label": "Sui dynasty", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "emperor-yang-of-sui", "label": "Emperor Yang of Sui", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "japanese-calendar", "label": "Japanese calendar", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "confucianism", "label": "Confucianism", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 574, "year_label": "574 CE", "section": "Births", "date": "February 7", "text": "February 7 – Shōtoku, prince and regent of Japan (d. 622)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1349204925#Births", "title": "574", "revid": 1349204925, "section": "Births"}}, {"year": 593, "year_label": "593 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "Suiko appoints her 21-year-old nephew Shōtoku as regent, with strongman Umako Soga. He holds shared power for nearly 30 years, creating the nation's first constitution (Seventeen-article constitution).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364755561#Asia", "title": "593", "revid": 1364755561, "section": "Events › By place › Asia"}}, {"year": 603, "year_label": "603 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "Prince Shōtoku of Japan establishes a twelve level cap and rank system, and is said to have authored a seventeen-article constitution.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364752956#Asia", "title": "603", "revid": 1364752956, "section": "Events › By place › Asia"}}, {"year": 604, "year_label": "604 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "Prince Shotoku, imperial regent of Empress Suiko, issues a Seventeen-article constitution, based on both Confucian and Buddhist principles in Japan.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364754628#Asia", "title": "604", "revid": 1364754628, "section": "Events › By place › Asia"}}, {"year": 607, "year_label": "607 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "August 1", "text": "August 1 – Empress Suiko appoints Ono no Imoko as official envoy to the Sui Court (Japanese missions to Imperial China). She sends him to pay tribute to Emperor Yángdi, and let him deliver the famous letter from prince-regent Shōtoku which begins: \"The Son of Heaven where the sun rises (Japan), to the Son of Heaven where the sun sets (China), may good health be with you.\" (Traditional Japanese date: July 3, 607).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340802681#Asia", "title": "607", "revid": 1340802681, "section": "Events › By place › Asia"}}, {"year": 622, "year_label": "622 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "April 8", "text": "April 8 – Shōtoku, prince and regent of Japan (b. 574)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1368342469#Deaths", "title": "622", "revid": 1368342469, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 645, "year_label": "645 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "Naka-no-Ōe becomes crown prince and prime minister. Supporters of the semi-legendary regent Prince Shōtoku gain supremacy in Japan.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1347973672#Japan", "title": "645", "revid": 1347973672, "section": "Events › By place › Japan"}}]}