father death_date mother birth_date spouse issue article_title name
emperor temmu 689 5 10 662 1 1 empress jitō 662 empress gemmei empress nagaya genshō emperor mommu kibi , princess consort of prince kusakabe
 prince kusakabe
prince kusakabe

prince kusakabe -lrb- 草壁皇子 , kusakabe no miko -rrb- -lrb- 662 -- may 10 , 689 -rrb- was a japanese imperial crown prince from 681 until his death .
he was the second son of emperor temmu .
his mother was the empress unonosarara , today known as empress jitō .
he was the sole child of his mother .
according to `` nihonshoki '' , in 681 he was appointed the crown prince .
in the summer of 686 his father , emperor temmu , fell ill and gave the imperial authority to his wife empress jitō and the crown prince kusakabe .
after the death of his father , he surprisingly did not ascend to the chrysanthemum throne .
he led the funeral ceremony and the construction of emperor temmu 's tomb but before the coronation , died in 689 at the age of 28 .
he was posthumously titled .
the location of his tomb is uncertain .
some suppose it to be in takatori , nara .
he married his paternal cousin and maternal aunt , princess abe , the daughter of emperor tenji .
they had at least three children , prince karu , princess hidaka and princess kibi .
after his death , his mother empress jitō ascended to the throne .
later , karu and hidaka reigned as emperor mommu and empress genshō .
asakura clan claimed to be from his lineage .
