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Prince Shōtoku
聖德太子 zh 聖徳太子 ja
Semi-legendary Japanese prince (574–622)
- Child of Yōmei and Anahobe no Hashihito no Himemiko
- Married to Tojiko no Iratsume, Tachibana no Ōiratsume, Kashiwade no Hokikimo no Iratsume and 1 more
- Dated 7 February 574 CE – 8 April 622 CE
Crown Prince of Japan
regent
Offices on record
Overview
From Wikipedia, quoted unmodified under CC BY-SA 4.0; the article’s history is its list of authors.
Life
Roles and affiliation
Holding an office is not parentage and not discipleship.
What this means
As the records give them: every row is a third party’s statement, not a self-description, and a role or an affiliation is often held for one period of a life only. An affiliation is not a belief, and this site does not ask anyone about theirs. For an office: which one, for how long, and where the records give an ordinal or the holders either side. Recognition of a tenure is never universal: contested lines appear as overlapping tenures rather than as one corrected sequence.
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Offices held 2
- from 593 CE Crown Prince of Japan
- from 593 CE regent
Family
The family of Prince Shōtoku
Parents, spouses and children as the records give them.
Documented family only. A teacher, a successor or a patron is never drawn in this tree.
The family as a list · 19
Family 19
What this means
A documented human family relationship. Not a succession mechanism, and not religious transmission.
Does not imply a right to an office · transmission of a teaching · a shared religious affiliation
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
- child of (mother) Anahobe no Hashihito no Himemiko Japanese princess
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child of (child) Yōmei Japanese emperor - parent of (child) Hatsuse no Ōkimi
- parent of (child) Hiki no Ōkimi
- parent of (child) Prince Shirakabe
- parent of (child) Prince Yamashiro Japanese prince
- parent of (child) Princess Tsukishine Japanese princess during the Asuka period
- parent of (child) Princess Umayako
- sibling of Prince Ekuri Japanese prince
- sibling of prince Kume prince
- sibling of Prince Manda Japanese prince
- sibling of Prince Tame Japanese prince
- sibling of Satomi no Himemiko Japanese princess
- sibling of Sukatehime no Himemiko Japanese princess
- sibling of Taima no miko
- married to Kashiwade no Hokikimo no Iratsume
- married to Princess Uji no Shitsukahi
- married to Tachibana no Ōiratsume
- married to Tojiko no Iratsume Prince Shotoku's consort
Religious context
What the records tie them to
Founded, supported, associated with — as third parties recorded it.
What this means
A founding is an attribution, usually contested, and not a claim that the tradition began fully formed. Patronage is an act, not a belief: it says nothing about the religion of a population, and nothing about the patron’s own practice in every period of a life. Domains are as sources record them — for a saint, usually a patronage — rarely exclusive, and not the same in every account.
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Named as founderHōryū-ji Temple
Buddhist temple in Nara Prefecture, Japan -
Named as founderShitennō-ji Temple
Built in 593 A.D., this famous Buddhist temple features a five-story pagoda, statues and turtle ponds -
Named as founderJōdo-ji Temple
Buddhist temple in Onomichi, Hiroshima prefecture, Japan -
Named as founderRokkaku-dō Temple
Buddhist temple in Kyoto, Japan, said to have been established by Prince Shōtoku, the name comes from its main hall's hexagonal shape, temple is part of the Saigoku Kannon Pilgrimage -
Named as founderChōgosonshi-ji Temple
building in Heguri, Nara Prefecture, Japan
Connections
How Prince Shōtoku connects
Grouped by the kind of relationship, because a successor is not a son and a shared symbol is not an influence.
Identification 1
What this means
One figure treated as another in some context. Not literal identity in all contexts, and usually a claim by a third party.
Does not imply literal identity in all contexts · that either tradition made the identification
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
Sources
Sources and evidence
Where every statement on this page comes from, and how each one stands.
23 statements on this record
- 3 Has references The statement cites something outside Wikimedia. That citation has not been checked here.
- 20 Imported Taken from Wikidata as it stands. Nobody here has read it. 7 of them cite only Wikipedia: one source, counted once.
Only this record’s own statements. What other records say about it is counted on theirs.
Three layers, three licences
- Text
- Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted, not merged
- Pictures
- Wikimedia Commons · each file’s own terms
Review
Not yet read by an editor here. Every relationship on this page is an import.
Disagreements are kept, not resolved, and a count of sources is not a confidence score.
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