Prince Toneri - Prince Toneri

Japanese: 舎人親王 - とねりしんのう

Year of death: Tempyo 7.11.14 (735.12.2)
Year of birth: Tenmu 5 (676)
The third son of Emperor Tenmu, he is well known as the person responsible for compiling the Nihon Shoki. His mother was Princess Nittabe, daughter of Emperor Tenchi. His children included Prince Oi (Emperor Junnin), Prince Funa, and Prince Ikeda. In the early Nara period, he was respected as an elder of the imperial family (imperial family). The Nihon Shoki, for which he was responsible, was completed in 720 as a total of 30 volumes and one volume of genealogy. In the same year, when the Minister of the Right Fujiwara no Fuhito died, he was appointed as Chief Minister of the Grand Council of State and in charge of the Grand Council of State. He served two emperors, Gensho and Shomu, as an imperial relative, and was a central figure in imperial family politics in the first half of the Nara period. When an imperial edict was issued in 728, he signed in a position higher than the Minister of the Left Nagaya, which is considered rare, but as the son of Emperor Tenmu, he had political authority on a par with Prince Nittabe. He also had the talent to be a poet, as three poems remain in the Manyoshu, including "I lament that my great-grandson will fall in love with me one-sidedly, but he is an ugly great-grandson, and yet I still long for him." After his death, he was awarded the title of Grand Minister of State. One of his sons, Prince Oi, ascended to the throne as Emperor Junnin (758), and the following year, his father was posthumously awarded the title of "Emperor Sudō Jinkei." According to the Enryaku Sōroku, at the request of the prince, the monk Eiyo traveled to Tang China to find a monk who could spread the precepts, which led to the arrival of Ganjin.

(Kiyoaki Kito)

Source: Asahi Japanese Historical Biography: Asahi Shimbun Publications Inc. About Asahi Japanese Historical Biography

Japanese:

没年：天平7.11.14(735.12.2)
生年：天武5(676)
天武天皇の第3子で,『日本書紀』の編纂の責任者として著名。母は天智天皇の皇女新田部皇女。子には大炊王(淳仁天皇),船王,池田王らがいる。奈良時代初期には,皇室(宗室)の長老として尊敬された。親王が編纂責任者となった『日本書紀』は養老4(720)年に全30巻,系図1巻として完成した。同年,右大臣藤原不比等が没すると,知太政官事となり太政官を統轄する立場に任命された。元正,聖武2代の天皇に皇親として仕えて,奈良時代前半の皇親政治の中心的存在であった。神亀5(728)年に詔を出したときも,左大臣長屋王よりも上の位置に署名して希有なこととされているが,天武天皇の皇子として新田部親王と並んで政治的権威を持っていた。また『万葉集』にも「大夫や片恋せむと嘆けども醜の大夫なほ恋ひにけり」など3首の歌が残されており,歌人としての素養もあった。没後,太政大臣を贈られた。皇子のうち大炊王が淳仁天皇として即位(758)したため,翌年父として「崇道尽敬皇帝」の称号を追贈されている。なお『延暦僧録』によると親王の請いによって,僧栄叡が唐へ渡って,戒律を伝える僧を求め,鑑真渡来の契機をつくったということを伝えている。

(鬼頭清明)

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