Editing Emperor Buretsu

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| name         = Emperor Buretsu<br>{{nobold|{{lang|ja|武烈天皇}}}}
| succession   = [[Emperor of Japan]]
| image        = Emperor Buretsu.jpg
| image_size = 200px
| caption      = Emperor Buretsu, painted in 1937
| reign        = 12 January 499 – 7 January 507
| coronation   = 
| cor-type     = Japan
| predecessor  = [[Emperor Ninken|Ninken]]
| successor    = [[Emperor Keitai|Keitai]]
| posthumous name = [[Posthumous name#Chinese-style (Han-style) shigō|Chinese-style ''shigō'']]:<br/>Emperor Buretsu ({{lang|ja|武烈天皇}})<br/><br/>[[Posthumous name#Japanese-style shigō|Japanese-style ''shigō'']]:<br/>Ohatsusenowakasazaki no Sumeramikoto ({{lang|ja|小泊瀬稚鷦鷯天皇}})
| spouse       = [[Kasuga no Iratsume]]
| royal house  = [[Imperial House of Japan]]
| father       = [[Emperor Ninken]]
| mother       = [[Kasuga no Ōiratsume]]
| birth_date   = 489
| birth_place  = 
| death_date   = {{death date and age|507|1|7|489}}
| death_place  = 
| burial_place = {{Nihongo||傍丘磐坏丘北陵|''Kataoka no Iwatsuki no oka no kita no misasagi''}} (Nara)|
}}

{{Nihongo|'''Emperor Buretsu'''|武烈天皇|Buretsu-tennō}} (489 – 7 January 507) was the 25th [[legend|legendary]] [[Emperor of Japan]],<ref name="kunaicho">[[Imperial Household Agency]] (''Kunaichō''): [http://www.kunaicho.go.jp/ryobo/guide/025/index.html  武烈天皇 (25)]</ref> according to the traditional [[List of Emperors of Japan|order of succession]].<ref>Varley, Paul. (1980). ''Jinnō Shōtōki,'' pp. 117–118; Titsingh, Isaac. (1834).  {{Google books|18oNAAAAIAAJ|''Annales des empereurs du japon,'' p. 31.|page=30}}</ref>

No firm dates can be assigned to this Emperor's life or reign, but he is conventionally considered to have reigned from 12 January 499 to 7 January 507.<ref>Ponsonby-Fane, Richard. (1959). ''The Imperial House of Japan,'' p. 43.</ref>

==Legendary narrative==
Buretsu is considered to have ruled the country during the late-fifth century and early-sixth century, but there is a paucity of information about him. There is insufficient material available for further verification and study.

Buretsu was a son of [[Emperor Ninken]] and his mother is {{Nihongo||春日大娘皇女|Empress Kasuga no Ōiratsume}}. His name was {{Nihongo|Ohatsuse no Wakasazaki|小泊瀬稚鷦鷯}}. He had no children.

==Buretsu's reign==
[[File:Tomb of Emperor Buretsu, haisho-2.jpg|thumb|220px|right|Mausoleum of Emperor Buretsu in [[Kashiba, Nara]]]]

Buretsu's contemporary title would not have been ''tennō'', as most historians believe this title was not introduced until the reigns of [[Emperor Tenmu]] and [[Empress Jitō]]. Rather, it was presumably {{Nihongo|''Sumeramikoto'' or ''Amenoshita Shiroshimesu Ōkimi''|治天下大王}}, meaning "the great king who rules all under heaven". Alternatively, Buretsu might have been referred to as {{Nihongo2|ヤマト大王/大君}} or the "Great King of Yamato".

Buretsu is described as an extremely wicked historical figure. The ''Nihonshoki'' describes the 11-year-old Buretsu, in 500, cutting open the stomach of a pregnant woman and observing the embryo. In addition to his acts of personal cruelty, during his reign the general welfare of the nation declined severely. According to the ''Tenshō'', supposedly compiled by [[Fujiwara no Hamanari]], Buretsu was admonished by [[Ōtomo no Kanamura]]. ''Nihonshoki'' likened his debauchery to [[Di Xin]] of the [[Shang dynasty]], but the record in ''Kojiki'' has no such indication. There are several theories on this difference. Some believe that this was to justify and praise his successor [[Emperor Keitai]], who took over under questionable circumstances, not having been in a position of immediate succession. In history textbooks available before and during [[World War II]], the negative parts of Buretsu's record were intentionally omitted.

If Emperor Keitai began a new dynasty as some historians believe, then Buretsu is the last Emperor of the first recorded dynasty of Japan.<ref>Aston, William. (1998). ''Nihongi,'' Vol. 1, pp. 393–407.</ref>

The actual site of Buretsu's [[grave (burial)|grave]] is not known.<ref name="kunaicho"/> The Emperor is traditionally venerated at a [[memorial]] [[Shinto]] [[shrine]] (''misasagi'') at Nara.

The [[Imperial Household Agency]] designates this location as Buretsu's [[mausoleum]]. It is formally named ''Kataoka no Iwatsuki no oka no kita no misasagi''.<ref>Ponsonby-Fane, p. 419.</ref>

==Consorts and children==
*Empress: {{Nihongo|[[Kasuga no Iratsume]]|春日娘子}}
**Children: ''None''

==See also==
* [[Emperor of Japan]]
* [[List of Emperors of Japan]]
* [[Imperial cult]]
* [[Prince Junda]], dispatched to Japan after a Korean emissary was taken hostage at Buretsu's initiative

==Notes==

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==References==
* [[William George Aston|Aston, William George.]] (1896). [https://books.google.com/books?id=_oEfAAAAYAAJ  ''Nihongi: Chronicles of Japan from the Earliest Times to A.D. 697.''] London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner.  {{OCLC|448337491}}
* Brown, Delmer M. and Ichirō Ishida, eds. (1979). [https://books.google.com/books?id=w4f5FrmIJKIC&q=Gukansho  ''Gukanshō: The Future and the Past.''] Berkeley: University of California Press. {{ISBN|978-0-520-03460-0}};  {{OCLC|251325323}}
* [[Richard Ponsonby-Fane|Ponsonby-Fane, Richard Arthur Brabazon]]. (1959). [https://books.google.com/books?id=SLAeAAAAMAAJ&q=The+Imperial+House+of+Japan  ''The Imperial House of Japan.''] Kyoto: Ponsonby Memorial Society. {{OCLC|194887}}
* [[Isaac Titsingh|Titsingh, Isaac.]] (1834). ''[[Nihon Ōdai Ichiran]]''; ou, [https://books.google.com/books?id=18oNAAAAIAAJ&q=nipon+o+dai+itsi+ran  ''Annales des empereurs du Japon.'']  Paris: Royal Asiatic Society, Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain and Ireland.  {{OCLC|5850691}}
* [[H. Paul Varley|Varley, H. Paul.]] (1980). [https://books.google.com/books?id=tVv6OAAACAAJ ''Jinnō Shōtōki: A Chronicle of Gods and Sovereigns.''] New York: Columbia University Press. {{ISBN|978-0-231-04940-5}};  {{OCLC|59145842}}

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