Emperor Ankō

was the 20th emperor of Japan,Imperial Household Agency (Kunaichō), 安康天皇 (20); retrieved 2011-10-16. according to the traditional order of succession.Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). Annales des empereurs du japon, pp. 26-27; Varley, Paul. (1980). Jinnō Shōtōki, p. 113; Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric et al. (2002). "Traditional order of Tennō" in Japan encyclopedia, pp. 962-963. Historians consider details about the life of Emperor Ankō to be possibly legendary, but probable.Kelly, Charles F.  "Kofun Culture,"  Japanese Archaeology. April 27, 2009; retrieved 2011-10-16.  The name Ankō-tennō was created for him posthumously by later generations. 
No certain dates can be assigned to this emperor's life or reign.Ponsonby-Fane, Richard. (1959). The Imperial House of Japan, p. 30.  The conventionally accepted names and sequence of the early emperors were not to be confirmed as "traditional" until the reign of Emperor Kammu, who was the 50th monarch of the Yamato dynasty.Aston, William George. (1896). Nihongi, pp. 109.

 Traditional history 
The Kojiki and Nihon Shoki record that Ankō was the second son of Emperor Ingyō.

Some accounts report that Ankō murdered his own father.Martin, Peter. (1997).  The Chrysanthemum Throne, p. 31.

 Events of Ankō's life 
Very little is known about the events of Ankō's life and reign.  Only limited information is available for study prior to the reign of the 29th monarch, Emperor Kimmei.Titsingh, pp. 34-36; Brown, pp. 261-262; Varley, pp. 123-124.

 462: According to Chinese records, a delegation from the Japanese monarch was received in the court of the southern Song Dynasty.  The "king" mentioned in these documents probably would have been Emperor Ankō.Nussbaum, Louis Frédéric et al. (2005).  "Miyatsuko" in Japan Encyclopedia, p. 651.

It is believed that Ankō was murdered in the third year of his reign.Aston, William. (1998). Nihongi, Vol. 1, pp. 328-333.

 After his death 
This emperor's official name after his death (his posthumous name) was regularized many centuries after the lifetime which was ascribed to Ankō.Aston (1998), pp. 146-147.

According to the Imperial Household Agency, the emperor's final resting place is in an earthen tumulus (kofun).Edwards, Walter.  "Contested Access: The Imperial Tombs in the Postwar Period," Journal of Japanese Studies, Vol. 26, No. 2 (Summer, 2000), pp. 371-392; retrieved 2011-10-16. This emperor is venerated at a memorial Shinto shrine (misasagi) which is associated with the burial mound.

Related pages
 Emperor of Japan
 List of emperors of Japan
 Japanese imperial family tree
 Kofun period

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