1. Emperor Uda was the 59th emperor of Japan, according to the traditional order of succession.
12 Facts About Emperor Uda
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Emperor Uda's mother was Empress Dowager Hanshi, a daughter of Prince Nakano.
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Uda's father, Emperor Koko, demoted his sons from the rank of imperial royals to that of subjects in order to reduce the state expenses, as well as their political influence.
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Emperor Uda's reign is marked by a prolonged struggle to reassert power by the Imperial Family away from the increasing influence of the Fujiwara, beginning with the death of Mototsune in 891.
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Records show that shortly thereafter, Emperor Uda assigned scholars Sukeyo and Kiyoyuki, supporters of Mototsune, to provincial posts in the remote provinces of Mutsu and Higo respectively.
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Meanwhile, Emperor Uda attempted to return Court politics to the original spirit envisioned in the Ritsuryo Codes, while reviving intellectual interest in Confucian doctrine and culture.
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Emperor Uda issued edicts reinforcing peasant land rights from encroachment by powerful families in the capital or monastic institutions, while auditing tax collections made in the provinces.
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Emperor Uda stopped the practice of sending ambassadors to China.
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Emperor Uda left behind an hortatory will or testament which offered general admonitions or precepts for his son's guidance.
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Emperor Uda was sometimes called "the Cloistered Emperor of Teiji ", because the name of the Buddhist hall where he resided after becoming a priest was called Teijiin.
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The mound which commemorates the Hosokawa Emperor Uda is today named O-uchiyama.
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The years of Emperor Uda's reign are more specifically identified by more than one era name, or nengo.