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The crown prince's 13th year forced her nine‑year reign to end
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The crown prince's 13th year forced her nine‑year reign to end
In this episode, we follow Empress Genshō’s nine years on the Japanese throne and the political choices that shaped early statecraft while a designated heir waited in the wings. We trace how her legitimacy, commissions, and daily rule were framed from the start by an unavoidable succession plan and ask what it means to govern when the end is already written.
Person: Hidaka-hime (Empress Genshō)
Person: Obito (crown prince, age 13 in 714)
Person: Empress Genmei (mother and predecessor)
Event: Completion of the Nihon Shoki (720, during Genshō’s reign)
Person: Fujiwara no Fuhito (powerful minister; died 720)
- Born in 680, Hidaka-hime was granddaughter of Emperor Tenmu and Empress Jitō and linked maternally to Emperor Tenmu, giving her double-line legitimacy.
- After Emperor Monmu’s death in 707, his son Obito was too young to rule; Genmei held the throne and named Obito crown prince in 714.
- In 715 Genmei abdicated in favor of her daughter, making Genshō empress despite the succession plan already naming a child heir.
- During her nine-year reign Genshō commissioned court ministers, completed legal codes, and oversaw the finishing of the thirty-scroll Nihon Shoki in 720.
- Genshō governed with full authority while the court understood her role as a bridge to Obito’s future rule, creating a legitimacy that carried an expiration date.
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