Emperor Keitai

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Emperor Keitai — Symbol of the Chrysanthemum Throne.

Reign: 507-531AD
Period: Kofun Period
Family: Emperor Ankan (son) Emperor Senka (son) Emperor Kinmei (son) Emperor Ojin (ancestor)
Burial Place: –
Order of Succession: Predecessor Emperor Buretsu * Successor Emperor Ankan

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Emperor Keitai

Emperor Keitai (継体天皇) was the twenty-sixth Emperor of Japan. If the records are true he had his son Ankan when he was only 13 years old.

Reluctantly he accepted the throne as a middle-aged man, however, it is said:

he loved the people and was courteous to men of worth. He was of a generous disposition.

He married a daughter of Emperor Ninken and took eight concubines. He is also the first Emperor to abdicate, though he was 82 and on his deathbed at the time.¹

Footnotes

1. Martin, P. (1997) ”The Chrysanthemum Throne”. Gloucestershire: Sutton Publishing Limited.

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