Emperor Tenji

Tenji (天 智 天皇jap, Tenji - tennō; * 626, † 672 January 7, also Tenchi, was the 38th Tenno of Japan His proper name was Prince Naka -no- Ōe (中 大兄 皇子, Naka -no- Ōe. no miko / ōji ).

He was the first son of Jomei - tennō and his wife Kōgyoku. He reigned 661-672, to 668 still under the title Prince. He had 667 from his farm in the country Ōmi of Yamato, and called this new residence Ōmi Otsu -no- miya, short Ōmi - kyō, in today's Otsu Cities in Shiga Prefecture.

Overall, he is said to have had 14 children. His empress was Yamatohime no Okimi (倭 姫 王). He was the father of the Kobun - tennō and Jitō - tennō that was his brother's wife, the Prince Ōama, known as Temmu - tennō. Also the Junnin - tennō and the Konin - tennō were his grandchildren.

Tenji is venerated in the Shrine Shinto kami as in Ōmi - jingū in Otsu Cities and Irie Shrine ( Shiga Prefecture ).

Taika reforms

The Prince Naka no Ōe and Nakatomi no Kamatari ( ancestor of the Fujiwara clan ) plunged as snags 645 in Isshi Incident, the supremacy of Soga. Within the following, the central government strengthening, Taika reforms ( from 645 /6) were not only introduced on the basis of Chinese (Tang ) practice, officials ranks and professional titles or modified, but also for the purpose of tax collection, detailed regulations on land ownership, privileges and obligations subjects taken. The finance department also required a standardization of dimensions, weights and other units. Already 652 was, by the abolition of private ownership of land (all land belonged to the emperor, and was awarded; from 743 were farmers new land which they themselves had developed retained as the property in the long term ), hō with the hands Shujo no uniform been awarding of land to all ( adult, able-bodied ) outdoors, and their taxation regulated. Was accelerated the reform aimed at centralization by the defeat in Paekche (Korea, 663). In Tenjis reign also the preparation of the first written down works of the law, but they were officially announced until after Tenjis death ( Ōmi and Kiyomigahara - laws 682 and 689 ) falls. The resulting bureaucratic government and administrative system ritsuryō was officially claimed by the end of the Edo period, but in practice since the end of the Heian period in name only. Usually it refers to only the time of the " direct" rule by the emperor to 1184th