Konin

-- Fuyutsugu (775-826); Konin revision of Rules and Regulations; minister founds academy

A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era Dairoku Kikuchi 1886

Konin justified the zeal of his supporters, but his benevolent and upright reign has been sullied by historical romanticists, who represent him as party to an unnatural intrigue based on the alleged licentiousness and shamelessness of his consort, Princess Inokami, a lady then in her fifty-sixth year with a hitherto blameless record.

A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era Dairoku Kikuchi 1886

The death of the Empress Shotoku without issue and the consequent extinction of the Emperor Temmu's line furnished an opportunity to these loyal statesmen, and they availed themselves of it to set Konin upon the throne, as will be presently described.

A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era Dairoku Kikuchi 1886

As for the rules (kyaku) and regulations (shiki), they were re-drafted: first, in the Konin era

A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era Dairoku Kikuchi 1886

Konin, year-period (810-24) and revision of Rules and Regulations

A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era Dairoku Kikuchi 1886

Konin could not correct this conception, and neither could Kwammu.

A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era Dairoku Kikuchi 1886

-- Yoshitsugu (716-77), privy councillor under Koken; favours Konin

A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era Dairoku Kikuchi 1886

Certain it is, however, that to Momokawa's exertions the Emperor Kwammu owed his accession, as had his father, Konin.

A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era Dairoku Kikuchi 1886

-- Nagate (714-71), minister of the Left; favours accession of Konin

A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era Dairoku Kikuchi 1886

This monarch, as already shown, was specially selected by his father, Konin, at the instance of Fujiwara Momokawa, who observed in the young prince qualities essential to a ruler of men.

A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era Dairoku Kikuchi 1886