Musa no Tsukisaka no e no misasagi (身狭桃花鳥坂上陵) (Nara)
Spouse
Tachibana no Nakatsu
Issue
See below
Posthumous name
Chinese-style shigō: Emperor Senka (宣化天皇)
Japanese-style shigō: Takewohirokunioshitate no Sumeramikoto (武小広国押盾天皇)
House
Imperial House of Japan
Father
Emperor Keitai
Mother
Menokohime
Emperor Senka (宣化天皇, Senka-tennō) (466 — 15 March 539) was the 28th legendary emperor of Japan,[1] according to the traditional order of succession.[2]
No firm dates can be assigned to this emperor's life or reign, but he is conventionally considered to have reigned from 25 January 536 to 15 March 539.[3]
^Imperial Household Agency (Kunaichō): 宣化天皇 (28)
^Varley, Paul. (1980). Jinnō Shōtōki, p. 121; Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). Annales des empereurs du japon, pp. 33–34., p. 33, at Google Books
^Ponsonby-Fane, Richard. (1959). The Imperial House of Japan, p. 45.
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