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In full:
Uda Tennō
Personal name:
Sadami
Born:
June 10, 867, Kyōto, Japan
Died:
Sept. 3, 931, Kyōto (aged 64)

Uda (born June 10, 867, Kyōto, Japan—died Sept. 3, 931, Kyōto) was the 59th emperor of Japan, from 887 to 897. The son of the emperor Kōkō, Uda was one of the few rulers during this period whose mother was not a member of the Fujiwara family, which, partly through intermarriage with the imperial line, dominated Japan from 859 to 1160. During the first part of Uda’s reign, Mototsune, the head of the Fujiwara house, occupied the post of kampaku, or chief councillor, through which he could issue commands on behalf of the emperor. After Mototsune’s death in 891, Uda ...(100 of 279 words)

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