Empress Suiko
Life and reign
The first of eight women to reign as Japanese empress. She took the throne after factional strife, with Prince Shotoku as regent, and under them the seventeen article constitution of 604 and missions to Sui China, opened in 600, began a great era of continental learning and Buddhist temple building.
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