Emperor Ankan

• Reign: 531-536AD
• Period: Kofun Period
• Family: Emperor Keitai (father) Emperor Senka (brother) Emperor Kinmei (brother)
• Burial Place: –
• Order of Succession: Predecessor Emperor Keitai * Successor Emperor Senka

Emperor Ankan

Emperor Ankan (安閑天皇) was the twenty-seventh Emperor of Japan and may have been born when his father was only 13 years old if the records are true.

He died childless and died at the age of 70.¹

Footnotes

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

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