Changing the Calendar: Royal Political Theology and the Suppression of the Tachibana Naramaro Conspiracy of 757
In the aftermath of the suppression of the Tachibana Naramaro conspiracy of 757, the Empress Koken ("Kōken/Shōtoku Tennō") issued two edicts articulating the royal political theology of the time. The first edict was a senmyō, inscribed in the Shoku Nihongi in Old Japanese; the second was a...
| Published in: | Japanese journal of religious studies |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Nanzan Institute
[2010]
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Japanese journal of religious studies
Year: 2010, Volume: 37, Issue: 2, Pages: 223-245 |
| Further subjects: | B
Emperors
B Empresses B Omens B Buddhism B Deities B Religious Studies B Monarchy B Shintoism B Divinity |
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| Summary: | In the aftermath of the suppression of the Tachibana Naramaro conspiracy of 757, the Empress Koken ("Kōken/Shōtoku Tennō") issued two edicts articulating the royal political theology of the time. The first edict was a senmyō, inscribed in the Shoku Nihongi in Old Japanese; the second was a choku in Chinese. A miraculous omen, the apparition of a silkworm cocoon with a message woven into its surface, was interpreted as the occasion for a change in the calendrical era name, or nengō. This article argues that the imperial edicts express a coherent ideology combining ideas from a cultic matrix in which may be discerned proto-Shinto, Buddhist, and Confucian elements. |
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