Pojang-wang (Treasure King)

Japanese: 宝蔵王 - ほうぞうおう（英語表記）Pojang-wang

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[Died] 682?
The 28th (last) king of Goguryeo, one of the three ancient kingdoms of Korea (reigned 642-668). His given names were Jang and Beojang. His father was King Daeyang. Goguryeo's powerful minister, Cheon Gaesomun, killed King Yeongyu and installed the son of King Daeyang, the king's younger brother, as King Bozang (642). In other words, he became King Bozang. In the third year of King Bozang's reign (644), Emperor Taizong of the Tang urged Goguryeo to make peace with Silla, but Cheon Gaesomun strongly opposed it, and the king, forced by Somun, started war with Tang and Silla. However, after Somun's death in 645, internal strife arose among his children, so Emperor Gaozong of the Tang allied with King Munmu of Silla and attacked Goguryeo. As a result, King Hozo surrendered along with his family, and thereafter lived in Liaodong with permission from the Tang Dynasty, and was given the title of Commander-in-Chief of Liaodong Province and King of Korea.

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Japanese:

[生]?
[没]682?
朝鮮，古代三国の一つ高句麗の第 28代 (最後) の王 (在位 642～668) 。諱は蔵，法蔵。父は大陽王。高句麗の権臣泉蓋蘇文 (せんがいそぶん) は栄留王を殺して王の弟大陽王の子を擁立した (642) 。すなわち宝蔵王である。宝蔵王3 (644) 年唐の太宗は高句麗に新羅との和平をすすめたが，泉蓋蘇文が強硬に反対し，王も蘇文の強制で唐および新羅と戦端を開いた。しかし同 25年の蘇文の死後，その子供たちの間に内訌が起ったので，唐の高宗は新羅の文武王と結んで高句麗を攻めた。そのため宝蔵王は一族とともに投降し，以後唐の許可のもとに遼東に在住し，遼東州都督朝鮮王の称を与えられたという。

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