Editing Emperor Richū (section)

===Reign===
Richū was crowned emperor after his brother's failed rebellion had been put to rest in the following year (400 AD).<ref name="Aston1"/> During this time, those who were not executed for their participation in the rebellion were forced to undergo tattooing as a punishment.<ref name="Brinkley">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HOJxAAAAMAAJ&dq=Rich%C5%AB&pg=PA109|title=Chapter XII: The Protohistoric Sovereigns|author=[[Francis Brinkley]]|work=A History of the Japanese People from the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era|publisher=[[Encyclopædia Britannica]]|year=1915|pages=108–110}}</ref> Kurohime was also officially appointed as a concubine later in that year. Although the two had two sons and a daughter, Richū appointed the title of "Crown Prince" to his brother Prince Mizuhawake (later Emperor Hanzei) in 401 AD.<ref name="Fane1915-2"/><ref name="Aston1"/> In the year 403 AD, "local recorders were appointed for the first time in various provinces, who noted down statements and communicated writings of the [[Emperor Sujin#Four Cardinal Quarters (Shidō shogun)|four quarters]]."<ref name="Brinkley"/> Kurohime died sometime in the following year (404 AD) under unclear circumstances. Its said that the Emperor heard a voice in the wind utter mysterious words in the "great void" before a messenger announced of her death.<ref name="Brinkley"/> Richū attributed the cause to an offended deity due to the misconduct of an official regarding a shrine.<ref name="Brinkley"/> [[Princess Kusakanohatabino-hime]] was appointed empress in the following year (405 AD), and the two gave birth to a daughter ([[Princess Nakashi]]).<ref name="Aston1"/> A royal treasury was also established in that year which was managed by two appointed Koreans.<ref name="Brinkley"/> Emperor Richū's reign ended during its sixth year, when he fell ill and succumbed to disease at the age of 64 or 70.<ref name="Aston1"/><ref name="KojikiR"/> The ''kiki'' states that Richū was buried in the misasagi on the "Plain of Mozo no Mimi".<ref name="Aston1"/><ref name="KojikiR"/> His brother ''Mizuhawake'' was enthroned as the [[Emperor Hanzei|next emperor]] in the following year (406 AD).