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The Ties That Bind.(history of Korean influence on Japan)
She was a daughter of Korea's Paekche kingdom, a foreign princess betrothed in a political marriage to a Japanese prince. As a second wife, Takanono Niigasa struggled to evade palace backstabbing until her husband became emperor in A.D. 770. After the empress and the crown prince were jailed--allegedly for casting a shamanistic curse on the sovereign--Niigasa's son became heir to the imperial lineage and, in A.D. 781, Japan's 50th emperor.
Basic biology dictates that Emperor Kammu was half Korean. But for centuries Japan's insistence on its sacred kokutai, or national essence, has obscured that legacy--along with a mountain of historical, cultural and ...
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