Empress Suiko
554 CE–628 CE · Asuka
Empress Suiko, enthroned in 592, was the first woman to reign as sovereign of Japan. During her reign her nephew Prince Shotoku served as regent and, with the Soga clan, promoted continental models of statecraft. This period saw the spread of Buddhism, the Seventeen-Article Constitution setting out ideals of government, a twelve-rank cap system for officials, and diplomatic missions to Sui China, drawing Japan more fully into East Asian civilization.
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Thinkers, teachers, and rulers whose lives overlapped with Empress Suiko’s — a glimpse of the wider world they lived in. Drawn purely from recorded birth and death years.
Christian world
Islamic world
Graeco-Roman world
Buddhist world
Rulers world
- Emperor Yang of Sui· 569 CE–618 CE
- Prince Shotoku· 574 CE–622 CE
- Khosrow II Parviz· 570 CE–628 CE
- Emperor Gaozu of Tang (Li Yuan)· 566 CE–635 CE
- Phocas· 547 CE–610 CE
- Pulakeshin II· –642 CE
- Heraclius· 575 CE–641 CE
- Emperor Wen of Sui· 541 CE–604 CE
- Maurice· 539 CE–602 CE
- Harsha· 590 CE–647 CE
- K'an II· 588 CE–658 CE
- Hormizd IV· –590 CE
- Khosrow I Anushirvan· 512 CE–579 CE
- Yazdegerd III· 624 CE–651 CE
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