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52
Years
660 BCE to 2024
Region
East Asia
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Japan and Southeast Asia, Ghosts and legends, Business dynasties, Science and medicine
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Tokugawa clan
Updated
30 October 2026
Yukio Mishima: Yukio Mishima, 1955 (cropped 850×950 px)1970 · Ichigaya, TokyoMishima's widow boycotted Paul Schrader's 1985 film, and his children won a copyright suit over his lettersYukio Mishima died by seppuku on 25 November 1970, aged 45, after a failed attempt to rouse the Self-Defense Forces at a Tokyo base. He left his wife Yoko, whom he married on 1 June 1958, and two children, Noriko and Iichiro.avclub.com and 2 moreKen Takakura: 国際情報社『映画情報』第31巻1月号(1966)より高倉健2014 · Keio University Hospital, Tokyo, JapanKen Takakura's adopted daughter cremated him before his family knew he had died, and inherited his estate and film rightsKen Takakura, born Oda Takeichi, made 205 films. In 2013 he adopted Takatsuki Oda, a former actress 33 years younger who had lived with him since 1997. As his adopted child she became his heir.friday.kodansha.co.jp and 3 moreAI illustration: A motorcycle assembly line in Hamamatsu, Japan2024 · Hamamatsu, JapanSuzuki Motor was run by four adopted sons in a row, including Osamu Suzuki, who married into the family and ran it for 43 yearsOsamu Matsuda was born on 30 January 1930 in Gero, Gifu Prefecture, and worked as a bank loan officer. In the late 1950s he married Shoko Suzuki, granddaughter of founder Michio Suzuki.globalsuzuki.com and 4 moreHideki Tojo: Hideki Tojo Portrait 1941 (3x4 cropped)(2)1948 · Sugamo Prison, TokyoUS Army papers show Hideki Tojo's ashes were scattered over the Pacific in 1948Hideki Tojo and six other Class A war criminals were hanged at Sugamo Prison on 23 December 1948. Their caskets left the prison by truck for the Kuboyama crematorium in Yokohama.wjla.com and 4 moreShuji Nakamura: Shuji Nakamura Nobel2001 · Tokyo, JapanShuji Nakamura was paid ¥20,000 for the blue LED patent, a Tokyo court awarded him ¥20 billion, and he settled for ¥840 millionShuji Nakamura developed bright blue LEDs at Nichia Corporation, which came to hold a near monopoly on the blue LED market. He says he received ¥20,000, about $180, for the key patent.compoundsemiconductor.net and 2 moreRikidōzan: Rikidōzan1963 · Tokyo, JapanRikidōzan hid that he was Korean, died of a yakuza stab wound, and left his 22-year-old widow president of five companies and a reported 3 billion yen of debtRikidōzan was born Kim Sin-rak in 1924 in South Hamgyong, now in North Korea. He entered sumo in Japan in 1940, took a Japanese name and kept his Korean birth secret.Korea JoongAng Daily and 3 moreSakichi Toyoda: Sakichi Toyoda1930 · Nagoya, JapanSakichi Toyoda sold his loom patents to a British firm, the money started Toyota, and the loom company went to an adopted son-in-lawSakichi Toyoda built power looms in Japan. In October 1915 his daughter Aiko married Risaburo Kodama, a younger brother of a Mitsui executive, and Sakichi adopted Risaburo as his son.toyota-global.com and 3 moreAI illustration: The coast at Tanabe, Wakayama, Japan2018 · Tanabe, Wakayama, JapanJapan's "Don Juan of Kishu" left his fortune to his town; his widow was acquitted of killing him and may still inherit halfKosuke Nozaki, a Wakayama businessman who called himself the "Don Juan of Kishu," died in 2018 at 77, a few months after marrying Saki Sudo, who was more than 50 years younger. He died of acute methamphetamine poisoning.Internet Archive and 3 moreTokyo Detention House 01: 東京拘置所2018 · Tokyo Detention House, Tokyo, JapanJapan hanged Aum's founder in 2018, his daughters fought over his ashes, and the state refused to hand them over until a 2026 court orderChizuo Matsumoto, known as Shoko Asahara, led Aum Shinrikyo, the group behind the 1995 Tokyo subway sarin attack. He was hanged in July 2018 with 12 other members.english.adnkronos.com and 1 moreAI illustration: A furniture showroom in Tokyo, 20152015 · TokyoA Japanese furniture founder fired his daughter, she beat him in a proxy fight, and the company was soldKatsuhisa Otsuka founded Otsuka Kagu, a furniture retailer selling high-end furniture through large showrooms with sales staff. His daughter Kumiko Otsuka became president in 2009 and wanted a more open, lower-cost model.amt-law.com and 2 moreSupreme Court of Japan: Supreme Court of Japan (10357245203)2001 · Tokyo, JapanJapan's Supreme Court struck down the half-share rule for children born outside marriage in 2013, 18 years after upholding itArticle 900(4) of Japan's Civil Code gave a child born outside marriage half the inheritance share of a child born in marriage.courts.go.jp and 2 moreEmperor Showa: Emperor Showa, 1st Guard Infantry Regiment1989 · Fukiage Palace, Tokyo, JapanJapan's imperial family paid 3.3 billion yen in property tax in 1947, and in 1989 the new emperor paid 428 million yen in inheritance tax while the regalia passed tax-freeIn October 1945 the Imperial Household Ministry reported the imperial family's property, excluding art, jewels and gold, at 1.59 billion yen in cash, securities, land, buildings and timber.kokushikan.repo.nii.ac.jp and 2 moreMap of Japan, marked on the globe1986 · Niigata, Sendai, Sapporo, Fukuoka and Tokyo, JapanJapanese courts cancelled auction sales of houses where owners had died by suicide, and in 2021 the state set a three-year disclosure ruleKind 1. Japan calls a property where someone died by suicide or murder a jiko bukken. When courts sell seized homes at auction, buyers have asked to cancel sales of such houses, and courts have ruled both ways.mc-law.jp and 2 moreTsutsumi Yasuzirou1: 堤康次郎（Tsutsumi Yasuzirou）1964 · Tokyo, JapanSeibu's founder left his railway empire to his third son over the eldest, and that son was convicted in 2005 over shares kept in other people's namesYasujiro Tsutsumi founded Seibu Railway, built the Seibu group and served as President of Japan's House of Councillors. He kept control through a holding company, Kokudo.NBC News and 3 moreShimizudani Refinery Ruins at Iwami Ginzan Silver Mine 001: 島根県大田市にある清水谷精錬所跡。世界文化遺産「石見銀山遺跡とその文化的景観」を構成する資産の一部。1613 · Iwami Ginzan, Ōda, Shimane, JapanTokugawa Ieyasu's mine magistrate died rich in 1613, and the shogunate made his seven sons kill themselves and seized everything he ownedŌkubo Nagayasu was born in 1545, the second son of a sarugaku performer. Takeda Shingen took him on as a retainer and set him to work on mines and taxes, including the Kurokawa gold mine.mlit.go.jp and 2 moreHomma Museum of Art: Homma Museum of Art (Sakata City, Yamagata Prefecture, Japan)1946 · Sakata, Yamagata Prefecture, JapanJapan's largest landlord told reporters in 1945 he would not regret going from 1,500 chō to 5, and the 1946 law left a resident landlord about oneThe Honma family of Sakata were merchants who lent money to the Shōnai and Yonezawa domains in the 18th century and bought farmland on a large scale.collections.dartmouth.edu and 3 moreMap of Japan, marked on the globe1945 · Toyama, Shinjuku, Tokyo, JapanWorkers in Tokyo dug up the bones of at least 62 people at the old Army Medical School in 1989, and Japan has never identified themOn 22 July 1989 workers building a Health Ministry research institute on the site of the wartime Army Medical School in Tokyo dug up about a dozen skulls, many with cuts, and other bones.CBS News and 2 moreRichard Sorge's Grave 01: Могила советского разведчика Рихарда Зорге на кладбище «Тама» в Токио1944 · Sugamo Prison and Tama Cemetery, Tokyo, JapanJapan hanged Soviet spy Richard Sorge and Moscow refused to claim him; his Japanese partner moved his body to her own grave plot and tended it until she diedRichard Sorge was a German journalist in Tokyo who spied for the Soviet Union. He was arrested on 18 October 1941 with other members of his ring, convicted of espionage and hanged at Sugamo Prison on 7 November 1944.nippon.com and 2 moreSuzuki Shoten burnt out: 鈴木商店（Suzuki Shoten） in Kobe burnt out.1894 · Kobe, Hyōgo, JapanA widow inherited a Kobe sugar trader, her manager made it bigger than Mitsui, rioters burned it, and it failed in 1927Suzuki Iwajirō founded a sugar trading house in Kobe in 1874. He died suddenly in 1894. His widow, Yone, born in 1852, became head of the firm and left management to her head clerks, Fujimatsu Yanagida and Kaneko Naokichi.kotobank.jp and 3 moreShiraoi-upopoy 25: 北海道白老郡白老町にある「民族共生象徴空間」ウポポイ（国立アイヌ民族博物館）1880 · Urahoro, Hokkaido, Japan; Shiraoi, HokkaidoJapanese scientists dug up more than 1,600 Ainu remains for study, and Ainu groups sued universities to bring them homeFrom the 1880s to the 1970s anatomists from the universities of Tokyo, Kyoto and Hokkaido dug up Ainu graves in Hokkaido and Sakhalin to study skulls. Koganei Yoshikiyo of Tokyo took more than 160 skulls in the Meiji era.47news.jp and 4 moreJapanese: 『市川團十郎（初代）の竹抜き五郎』Kabuki actor Ichikawa Danjūrō I in the role of Takenuki Gorō (Soga no Gorō).title QS:P1476,ja: This is likely one of the most famous early Torii school i1704 · Ichimura-za theatre, Edo (Tokyo), JapanDanjūrō I was stabbed to death in his dressing room by a rival actor, and his 15-year-old son took the name that is now in its 13th generationIchikawa Danjūrō I was born in Edo in 1660 and founded the aragoto acting style of kabuki in 1673.kabuki21.com and 3 moreKongo Gumi workers in early 20th century: Kongō Yoshie, the 38th master carpenter of Kongō Gumi and employees.578 · Osaka, JapanThe Kongō family built temples for 40 generations from 578, and lost the company to debt in 2006The company history says Prince Shōtoku invited three craftsmen from the Korean kingdom of Baekje to build Shitennō-ji in Osaka. One, Shigemitsu Kongō, stayed to look after it. The company dates itself to 578.kongogumi.co.jp and 4 moreKitano Tenjin Engi Emaki Michizane in exil: 大宰府の配所で恩賜の御衣を取出し嘆く菅原道真（承久本『北野天神縁起絵巻』巻4）903 · Dazaifu, Fukuoka, Japan; Kyoto, JapanJapan's court exiled Michizane on a rival's charge, then restored his offices and made him Chancellor 90 years after his deathKind 1 and kind 2. Sugawara no Michizane was a scholar from a family of modest rank. His daughter became a consort of Emperor Uda, and in 899 he was made Minister of the Right while Fujiwara no Tokihira became Minister of the Left.kotobank.jp and 2 moreTaira no Masakado Kubizuka: 将門塚正面。940 · Otemachi, Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan (mound); Kanto region, JapanMasakado fought his uncles for land, called himself the new emperor, and his head mound in Tokyo moved the Finance MinistryKind 1 and kind 2. Taira no Masakado was the son of Taira no Yoshimochi. The Konjaku monogatarishu says his uncles seized lands he was due to inherit from his father. Other accounts give a quarrel over a woman.pinktentacle.com and 2 moreMap of Japan, marked on the globe1443 · Kyoto and Sado Island, JapanZeami lost his son and the leadership of his Noh troupe to the shogun's favourite, and was exiled to Sado at about 72Zeami performed before the shogun Yoshimitsu at 11 and won his patronage. He led the Kanze troupe after his father Kannami died, wrote many new plays, and wrote treatises on acting for his successors.the-noh.com and 2 moreSuruga-cho-Straße in Tokio: One Hundred Famous Views of Edo, No. 0081694 · Kyoto and Edo (Tokyo), JapanMitsui's 1722 house code barred any branch from dividing or selling its share, and the US occupation took the families' property in 1946Mitsui Hachirobei Takatoshi, a merchant from Matsusaka in Ise, opened the Echigoya draper's shop in Edo and a buying store in Kyoto in 1673.archive.dartmouthalumnimagazine.com and 3 moreGoeidō - Higashi Honganji: Goeidō - Higashi Honganji1592 · Kyoto, JapanTheir mother produced a letter naming the younger son, Hideyoshi removed the elder as head of the Honganji, and Ieyasu gave the elder land for a rival temple in KyotoThe headship of the Honganji, the main temple of the Jōdo Shinshū Buddhist school, passed from father to son. From 1570 Kennyo led the Honganji in a ten-year war against Oda Nobunaga.mlit.go.jp and 3 moreHimeji Castle Okiku Well: Himeji Castle Okiku Well1741 · Himeji Castle, Hyogo, Japan; Bancho, Edo (Tokyo), JapanOkiku broke one of ten heirloom dishes, was killed and thrown into a well, and Himeji Castle still shows the wellKind 2: what the plays and storytellers say. The first staged version, a puppet play at Osaka's Toyotakeza in 1741, is set at Himeji. Aoyama Tessan, a retainer, plots to take the castle from his lords, the Kotera.edizionicafoscari.it and 2 morePortrait of Tokugawa Yoshimune: Portrait of Tokugawa Yoshimune1716 · Edo Castle, Tokyo, JapanThe child shogun died in 1716 and the Tokugawa main line ended, so a branch lord whose three elder brothers had died took the titleTokugawa Ieyasu founded three branch houses for his 9th, 10th and 11th sons, at Owari, Kii and Mito. They ranked above all other lords and carried the Tokugawa name.kotobank.jp and 3 moreYodoya Monument (1): Yodoya Monument1705 · Osaka, JapanThe shogunate confiscated Osaka's richest merchant house in 1705 for living beyond its stationOkamoto Jōan founded the Yodoya house in Osaka. He sided with Tokugawa Ieyasu at the siege of Osaka and was allowed to collect and sell the weapons left on the battlefield.kotobank.jp and 2 moreAsano Naganori: Naganori Asano1701 · Edo (Tokyo) and Akō, Hyōgo, JapanThe shogunate confiscated Lord Asano's 53,000-koku domain the day he drew his sword, and his retainers waited 21 months to take revengeAsano Naganori inherited the Akō domain of 53,000 koku from his father in 1675. In 1701 he was assigned to host the emperor's envoys in Edo, under the instruction of the master of ceremonies Kira Yoshinaka.kotobank.jp and 3 moreKabuki Actor Arashi Rikan II as Iemon Confronted by an Image of His Murdered Wife, Oiwa: Kabuki Actor Arashi Rikan II as Iemon Confronted by an Image of His Murdered Wife, Oiwa, on1636 · Yotsuya, Shinjuku, Tokyo, JapanOiwa's shrine says she and her adopted-heir husband restored the Tamiya fortunes; the 1825 play has him betray her for a richer matchKind 2, with the shrine's record. In 1827 the Oiwa Inari Tamiya shrine submitted a history to the shogunate.projects.mcah.columbia.edu and 2 moreOda Nobunaga: Portrait of Oda Nobunaga (detail). Important Cultural Property.1598 · Fushimi Castle, Kyoto and Osaka Castle, Osaka, JapanHideyoshi took over Nobunaga's house by backing a two-year-old heir, and after he died Tokugawa Ieyasu did the same to his own five-year-old sonOda Nobunaga and his heir Nobutada died in the Honnōji incident in 1582. At a meeting of Oda generals at Kiyosu that summer, Nobunaga's sons Nobukatsu and Nobutaka each claimed the house.kotobank.jp and 5 moreToyotomi Hideyoshi: Toyotomi Hideyoshi c1598 Kodai-ji Temple1595 · Mount Kōya (Kōyasan), Wakayama, Japan; Sanjō riverbank, KyotHideyoshi's adopted heir was forced to kill himself after a son was born, and 39 of his wives, children and servants were beheaded in KyotoToyotomi Hideyoshi unified Japan. In 1591, after his heir died, he made his nephew Hidetsugu his successor and Imperial Regent. In 1593 Hideyoshi had a son, Hideyori, and relations with Hidetsugu broke down.kyohaku.go.jp and 3 moreSen no Rikyu JPN: a portrait by Tōhaku Hasegawa (長谷川等伯)(born in 1539 and dead in 1610), calligraphy by Shunoku Sōen (春屋 宗園)(born in 1529 and dead in 1611). Copied from http://www.o1591 · Kyoto, JapanHideyoshi ordered his tea master to kill himself in 1591, and the Sen family won back the name that three tea houses still carrySen no Rikyū was born in Sakai in 1522. He became tea master to Oda Nobunaga in 1579 and to Toyotomi Hideyoshi after 1582. In 1591 Hideyoshi ordered him to commit seppuku. The reason is not settled.nippon.com and 4 moreOnin War Scene 1: Onin War Scene 11490 · Kyoto, JapanA childless shogun adopted his brother as heir in 1464, then his wife bore a son, and the quarrel burned Kyoto for 11 yearsAshikaga Yoshimasa, the eighth shogun, married Hino Tomiko in 1455. Their first son was stillborn in 1459.kotobank.jp and 3 moreTamaudun 02: 沖縄県 玉陵1450 · Unten, Nakijin, Okinawa, Japan; Kyoto, JapanKyoto Imperial University took bones from a Ryukyuan royal tomb, descendants sued for them, and the university gave them to the village in 2025 on condition they never be buriedMumujana, "the tomb of many lords," is a cave tomb on a cliff above Unten port in Nakijin, Okinawa. It holds lacquered coffins and the bones of local lords of the 1400s and their families.ryukyushimpo.jp and 4 moreEmperor Go-Kameyama: Portrait of the Emperor Go-Kameyama1424 · Yoshino, Nara and Kyoto, JapanJapan's Southern Court gave up the sacred regalia in 1392 on a promise to share the throne, the promise was broken, and loyalists stole the jewel back in 1443In 1336 Emperor Go-Daigo broke with the warlord Ashikaga Takauji, escaped confinement in Kyoto and set up a court at Yoshino. Takauji's Northern Court in Kyoto had its own emperor. The Southern Court held the regalia.kotobank.jp and 5 moreFujiwara no Tameie: 藤原為家の肖像画。菊池容斎筆『前賢故実』巻第八（国文学研究資料館所蔵）より。1275 · Kyoto and Kamakura, Japan; Hosokawa estate, Miki, HyōgoA widowed nun rode from Kyoto to Kamakura in 1279 to sue her stepson for her son's estate, and her son's family still owns the archive she fought forFujiwara no Tameie headed the Mikohidari house of court poets, heir to his father Fujiwara no Teika. Around 1252 he took as his late partner a lady-in-waiting known later as the nun Abutsu.kotobank.jp and 5 morePortrait of Abutsu-Ni: Portrait of Abutsu-Ni1275 · Kamakura, Japan; Hosokawa estate, Harima province (Hyōgo), JNun Abutsu travelled to Kamakura in 1279 to claim her son's inheritance, died waiting, and the case ended 30 years laterFujiwara no Tameie (1198 to 1275), son of the poet Fujiwara no Teika, entrusted the Hosokawa estate in Harima province to his eldest son, Tameuji, in 1256. In 1273 he reversed himself.edizionicafoscari.unive.it and 3 moreMinamoto no Sanetomo: Minamoto no Sanetomo(源 実朝, 1192 –1219) was the third shogun of the Kamakura shogunate and the last head of the Minamoto clan of Japan. This picture has drawn 1219 · Tsurugaoka Hachimangū, Kamakura, Kanagawa, JapanThe shogun's nephew killed him on the shrine steps in 1219 to avenge his father, and the Minamoto line of shoguns ended that nightMinamoto no Yoritomo founded the Kamakura shogunate and died in 1199. His elder son Yoriie inherited the house and became shogun, but his mother's family, the Hōjō, limited his powers through a council.kotobank.jp and 3 more230728 Chusonji Hiraizumi Iwate pref Japan01s3: Chūson-ji Konjiki-dō in Hiraizumi, Iwate prefecture, Japan1189 · Hiraizumi, Iwate, JapanThe Ōshū Fujiwara grew rich on northern gold, the fourth lord turned on the fugitive his father told him to protect, his own vassal beheaded him, and his head lies in the family's gold hallThe Ōshū Fujiwara ruled northern Japan from Hiraizumi for four generations. A 2021 study in PLoS ONE says the region exported horses and gold, and its lords used gold to buy influence in the capital.ebi.ac.uk and 2 moreAntoku Tenno-e (Akama Jingu Shimonoseki): Antoku Tenno-e, Akama Jingu, Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi, Japan1185 · Dan-no-ura, Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi, JapanA six-year-old emperor drowned at Dan-no-ura in 1185 in his grandmother's arms, and the sacred sword went down with himAntoku was born in 1178, the son of Emperor Takakura and Taira no Tokuko, daughter of the warlord Taira no Kiyomori. He took the throne in 1180.kotobank.jp and 4 moreSoga Brothers Surprising Suketsune, 1890: Dramatic kabuki scene from the famous tale of the Soga Brothers, whose lifelong quest was to avenge the death of their father at the hands1176 · Itō estate, Izu, and the Fuji hunting grounds, Shizuoka, JapThe Tale of the Soga Brothers says a guardian took his ward's estate, the ward killed the guardian's son, and the son's boys killed him 17 years laterThe Soga revenge is recorded history wrapped in legend. The killing in 1193 is in the chronicle Azuma Kagami; the estate quarrel behind it comes mainly from the Manabon text of the Soga monogatari.kotobank.jp and 3 moreEmperor Sutoku: Portrait of the Emperor Sutoku (from the Tenshi-Sekkan Miei)1164 · Sanuki Province (Sakaide, Kagawa), Japan; Shiramine Jingu, KEmperor Sutoku lost the throne to his brothers, died in exile, and was brought home as a spirit in 1868Kind 1 and kind 2. Sutoku, the first son of Emperor Toba, became emperor as a small child in 1123 while Toba ruled as retired emperor. A story that surfaced in the next century said his real father was Toba's grandfather Shirakawa.archived.writersinkyoto.com and 2 moreEmperor Sutoku Refusing to Receive the Priest Ennyo in Exile: Japan, circa 1880 Prints; woodcuts Triptych; color woodblock prints Herbert R. Cole Collection (M.84.31.67) Japanese A1156 · Kyoto, Japan; Sanuki (Kagawa), JapanA retired emperor and his brother went to war over the throne in 1156, and the winning side made a son behead his own fatherSutoku became emperor in 1123 as a small child.kotobank.jp and 2 moreIshinpo Nakarai: Ishinpō, Nakarai edition995 · Kyoto and Tokyo, JapanAn emperor gave Japan's oldest medical book to one physician family, and the author's descendants spent centuries trying to get it backThe court physician Tamba Yasuyori completed the Ishinpō, 30 volumes of medicine, in 984. Most of it quotes Chinese medical books of the Six Dynasties, Sui and Tang periods, many of which are now lost in China.online.bunka.go.jp and 2 moreJapan- Nara, Todaiji Shosoin 2011: Japan: the Shōsō-in, imperial treasure house of the Tōdai-ji, in Nara city (Nara prefecture).756 · Tōdai-ji, Nara, JapanAn empress gave her dead husband's treasures to a temple in 756, took back two swords, and they were found under the Great BuddhaEmperor Shōmu built the Great Buddha at Tōdai-ji. After he died in 756, his widow, Empress Kōmyō, gave more than 600 of his possessions to the Buddha, in several gifts over a number of years.historynewsnetwork.org and 2 moreHoshi Ryokan: Hoshi Ryokan718 · Awazu Onsen, Komatsu, Ishikawa, JapanA Japanese inn passed father to son for 46 generations since 718, and the heir's death put a daughter in line for the first timeTradition says the monk Taichō founded the Awazu hot spring and that his disciple Garyo Houshi took over its sanatorium in 718 and made it an inn.publishing.insead.edu and 3 moreEmperor Tenji: Emperor Tenji (Kanou Tanyuu)671 · Ōtsu, Shiga, Japan; Yoshino, NaraEmperor Tenji passed over his brother for his son in 671, and the brother raised an army, won the throne and had the official history written by his own sonEmperor Tenji first trusted his younger brother, Prince Ōama, and treated him as his heir. As his son Prince Ōtomo grew up, Tenji favoured the son, and in the first month of 671 he made Ōtomo Grand Minister.Wikisource (primary text) and 4 moreIrukaansatsuzu: Depiction of the assassination of Soga no Iruka from the Tōnomine Engi Scroll, painted during the Edo period (17-19th century).645 · Asuka Itabuki Palace, Asuka, Nara, JapanPrince Naka no Ōe cut down Soga no Iruka at court in 645, Iruka's father burned the court histories as he died, and a 646 edict abolished private estatesThe main line of the Soga clan dominated the Yamato court for generations.kotobank.jp and 3 moreShinpukuji-bon Kojiki (真福寺本古事記): Page from a facsimile of the 14th century Shinpukuji manuscript (真福寺本) of the Kojiki published in 1924-1925.Scripture · 660 BCE · Ise Grand Shrine, Mie, Japan; Atsuta Shrine, Nagoya; ImperiaThe Kojiki says the Sun Goddess sent her grandson to rule Japan with a mirror, a jewel and a sword, and the law still passes them with the throneThe Kojiki, compiled in 712, records that when the Sun Goddess Amaterasu sent her grandson Ninigi down from Heaven to rule the Central Land of Reed-Plains, she gave him the curved jewels and the mirror that had drawn her out of the Rock-Dwelling, and the Herb-Quelling Great Sword.Wikisource (primary text) and 6 more