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The origins of the Northern Court go back to Emperor Go-Saga, who reigned from 1242 through 1246. [3] Go-Saga was succeeded in turn by two of his sons, Emperor Go-Fukakusa [4] and Emperor Kameyama. [5]
JHTI is an expanding online collection of historical texts. The original version of every paragraph is cross-linked with an English translation. The original words in Japanese and English translation are on the same screen. [4] There are seven categories of writings, [2] including
Founding ceremony of the hakkō ichiu monument on April 3, 1940. It had Prince Chichibu's calligraphy of hakkō ichiu carved on its front side. [6] Prewar 10-sen Japanese stamp, illustrating the hakkō ichiu and the 2,600th anniversary of the Empire Emperor Shōwa and Empress Kōjun preside the celebration of the 2,600th anniversary of mythical foundation of the empire in November 1940.
The earliest historic written mentions of Japan were in Chinese records, where it was referred to as Wa (倭 later 和), which later evolved into the Japanese name of Wakoku (倭國). Suishō (帥升, ca. 107 CE) was a king of Wa, the earliest Japanese monarch mentioned in Volume 85 of the Book of the Later Han from 445 CE.
In 718 Yōrō Code commissioned the Ministry of the Centre to compile a national history; the resulting Nihon Shoki of 720 served as a basis for similar works. [6] Other historical chronicles were published over the following century: the Shoku Nihongi in 797, the Nihon Kōki in 840, the Shoku Nihon Kōki in 869, the Nihon Montoku Tennō Jitsuroku in 871, and the Nihon Sandai Jitsuroku in 901.
The antecedents of the modern Japanese encyclopedia date from the ancient period and the Middle Ages. Encyclopedic books were imported from China from an early date, but the first proto-encyclopedia produced in Japan was the 1000-scroll Hifuryaku (秘府略), compiled in 831 upon the emperor's orders by Shigeno no Sadanushi (滋野貞主) and others, only fragments of which survive today.
There exists a correspondence between the Western Old Japanese *i and *u and the Eastern Old Japanese *(j)e and *o respectively, which is confirmed by the comparison of the three Japanese dialects, as well as the Ryukyuan languages. Thus, the Eastern Old Japanese vowel system would have been closer to that of Proto-Japonic than that of Western ...
Niigasa was a daughter of Yamato no Ototsugu (和乙継) who was a descendant of Prince Junda (c. 480–513). Prince Junda, the second son of King Muryeong of Baekje, was born in Japan and eventually became the ancestor of later known to be Yamato clan.