Emperor Montoku (文徳天皇 Montoku Tennō) (827-858) was the 55th imperial ruler of Japan, according to the traditional order of succession. He reigned from 850 to 858 and was succeeded by his son Emperor Seiwa. Events Succession of Pope Valentine, then Pope Gregory IV. Arabs invade Sicily. ... Events Patriarch Ignatius is imprisoned and (December 25) deposed to be succeeded by patriarch Photius I. Louis the German invades West Francia, hoping to secure Aquitaine from his brother Charles the Bald, but fails. ... His Imperial Majesty, Emperor Akihito. ... Events April 20 - Guntherus becomes Bishop of Cologne. ... Events Patriarch Ignatius is imprisoned and (December 25) deposed to be succeeded by patriarch Photius I. Louis the German invades West Francia, hoping to secure Aquitaine from his brother Charles the Bald, but fails. ... ...
Events during his reign included the repression of insurrections among the Ebisu people in Mutsu province in 855, and among the people of the island of Tsushima two years later. Mutsu (陸奥国; -no kuni) is an old province of Japan, which today composes Fukushima, Miyagi, Iwate and Aomori prefectures and the city of Kazuno and the town of Kosaka in Akita prefecture. ... Tsushima is a name related to Japan. ...
To support the Meiji emperor's role as the nominal head of the new government, the whole set of ancient ideas, including the historicity of the first emperor, his singular descent from the Sun Goddess, and the establishment of the imperial line with Emperor Jinmu, was affirmed as historical truth.
Emperor Go Daigo and all his loyal supporters, who had attempted imperial restoration in the fourteenth century and failed, were glorified.
The historicity of the age of gods and Emperor Jinmu, which had been discussed critically by their predecessors in the Tokugawa period, was not even addressed before the historians of the Meiji restoration period were ambushed by imperial loyalists and political Shintoists.
Emperor Kammu paid honor to the new establishment, designating it as a place of worship where prayers could be offered to the guardian star of the ruler.
Emperor Seiwa (850-880): Prince Korehito, fourth son of the EmperorMontoku.
According to tradition, Montoku was unable to decide whether he should name Korehito or another of his sons at his successor, and had the two princes hold a sumb match to settle the matter.
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