Figure Buddhist traditions
Shōmu
聖武 zh 聖武天皇 ja
Emperor of Japan
- Child of Monmu and Fujiwara no Miyako
- Married to Kōmyō, Agatainukai no Hirotoji, Minami Dono and 3 more
- Dated 18 September 701 CE – 4 June 756 CE
Crown Prince of Japan
Emperor of Japan
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.
Belonged to
Offices held 2
- 714 CE – 724 CE Crown Prince of Japan
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Family
The family of Shōmu
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 · 14
Family 14
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 religious affiliation held by the whole house · continuous rule · a shared religious affiliation
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
- child of (mother) Fujiwara no Miyako spouse of emperor Mommu and mother of emperor Shomu
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child of (child) Monmu Emperor of Japan -
of the house Imperial House of Japan members of the extended family of the reigning Emperor of Japan - parent of (child) Asaka-shinnō son of emperor Shōmu (728-744)
- parent of (child) Fuwa-naishinnō daughter of emperor Shomu
- parent of (child) Inoe-naishinnō daughter of emperor Shomu; empress consort of Kōnin (717-775)
- parent of (child) Kōken Empress of Japan
- parent of (child) Motoi-ō son of emperor Shōmu
- married to Agatainukai no Hirotoji
- married to Fujiwara Nanafu
- married to Kōmyō consort empress of Japan
- married to Minami Dono Japanese person
- married to Tachibana no Konakachi
- married to 北殿
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.
Connections
How Shōmu connects
Grouped by the kind of relationship, because a successor is not a son and a shared symbol is not an influence.
Recorded events and days 1
What this means
Events Wikidata records in a subject’s history, and the day a festival is kept. Not a complete history, and the day a festival falls on is not when it began.
Does not imply that these are all the events in its history · that Wikidata ranks the events by importance
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.
18 statements on this record
- 1 Has references The statement cites something outside Wikimedia. That citation has not been checked here.
- 17 Imported Taken from Wikidata as it stands. Nobody here has read it. 6 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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