Emperor Sushun

• Reign: 587-592AD
• Period: Asuka Period
• Family: Soga no Umako (uncle)
• Burial Place: –
• Order of Succession: Predecessor Emperor Yomei * Successor Emperor Suiko

Emperor Sushun

Emperor Sushun (崇峻天皇) was the thirty-second Emperor of Japan.

He was placed on the throne by Soga no Umako after winning a skirmish against Mononobe no Moriya who wished for someone else on to reside upon the throne. As Emperor, he disliked Buddhism and planned to dislodge Umako from his political position.¹
Umako discovered this and had his nephew killed and buried without ceremony the same day.¹²

Footnotes

1. Aston. W.G. (1896) “Nihongi Volume 1: Chronicles of Japan from the Earliest Times to AD697”. Tuttle Publishing.
2. Tsurumi, P. (1981) “Early Female Emperors” Historical Reflections Vol.8 No.1 pp.41-49.

	Check out the Japan Archives, our Japanese History Podcast. Instagram (Japan): @japan_archives
	Check out our Gaming Channel on Youtube. Instagram (Minecraft): @mycenria
	Find the website useful? Please consider donating to help up keep the website running.