Editing Emperor Seinei (section)

==Protohistoric narrative==
The Japanese have traditionally accepted this sovereign's historical existence, and a mausoleum (misasagi) for Seinei is currently maintained. The following information available is taken from the [[Pseudohistory|pseudo-historical]] ''[[Kojiki]]'' and ''[[Nihon Shoki]]'', which are collectively known as {{Nihongo|''Kiki''|記紀}} or ''Japanese chronicles''. These chronicles include legends and myths, as well as potential historical facts that have since been [[Tall tale|exaggerated and/or distorted]] over time. It is recorded in the ''Nihon Shoki''{{efn|The Kojiki only records information related to searching for a successor to Emperor Seinei.}} that Seinei was born to {{Nihongo|''Katsuragi no Karahime''|葛城韓媛}} sometime in 444 AD, and was given the name {{Nihongo||白髪皇子|Shiraka}}.<ref name="Longford"/> Prince Shiraka was the third and favorite son of [[Emperor Yūryaku]], and was made heir apparent a year before his father's death.<ref name="Aston1">{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lJ5OAQAAIAAJ&q=Seinei#v=snippet&q=Seinei&f=false|title=Book XV: Seinei Tenno|author=[[William George Aston]]|work=Nihongi: Chronicles of Japan from the Earliest Times to A.D. 697. (Volume 1)|publisher=London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner|year=1896|pages=338 & 373–377}}</ref> Yūryaku had taken notice at how Shiraka was born with white hair as meaning something significant.<ref name="Brown"/>

During the transition period, Yūryaku's other consort {{nihongo|Kibi no Wakahime|吉備稚媛}} convinced her younger son Prince Hoshikawa to assert his claim to the throne.<ref name="Brinkley">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HOJxAAAAMAAJ&q=Seinei#v=snippet&q=Seinei&f=false|title=A History of the Japanese People from the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era|chapter=Chapter XIII: The Protohistoric Sovereigns (continued)|author=[[Francis Brinkley]]|publisher=[[Encyclopædia Britannica]]|year=1915|pages=117–119}}</ref> While Hoshikawa was Prince Shiraka's older brother, the eldest sibling in the household ({{Nihongo|Prince Iwaki|磐城皇子}}) advised against it.<ref name="Fane1">{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VHgtAQAAMAAJ&q=Seinei#v=onepage&q=Seinei&f=false|title=Seinei (480–484)|work=The Imperial Family of Japan|author=Ponsonby-Fane, Richard|publisher=Ponsonby Memorial Society|year=1915|page=14|author-link=Richard Ponsonby-Fane}}</ref> In the [[Prince Hoshikawa Rebellion|rebellion that followed]] Hoshikawa and his followers sieged the Imperial treasury. They were then surrounded by court troops who burned the building to the ground, roasting to death all but one surviving minor official (who was given mercy).<ref name="Brinkley"/> With the rebellion put down, Prince Shiraka assumed the throne as Emperor Seinei in 480 AD.<ref name="Aston1"/> Although the Emperor appointed a woman named Katsuraki Kara-hime as "Grand Consort", she was never made an Empress.<ref name="Aston1"/> 

Seinei grew distressed in the second year of his reign as he had no children to succeed him. His father Emperor Yūryaku had done away with all of his male relations in his obsessive conquest for the throne.<ref name="Fane1"/> His older brother Prince Hoshikawa had been burnt to death, and Prince Iwaki died sometime in 481 AD.<ref name="Aston1"/>



Seinei's full sister was Princess Takuhatahime.

Seinei fathered no children; however, two grandsons of the 17th Emperor, [[Emperor Richū]], were found—later to ascend as [[Emperor Kenzō|Prince Woke]] and [[Emperor Ninken|Prince Oke]]. Seinei adopted them as his heirs.<ref>Aston, William. (1998). ''Nihongi,'' Vol. 1, pp. 373–377.</ref>