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Events in the year 737 in Japan.
Incumbents
Events
- A major Japanese smallpox epidemic that started in 735 finally runs its course, but only after causing an estimated 25% to 35% mortality among the adult population in the country. [2]
Births
- Fujiwara no Tanetsugu, Japanese nobleman (d. 785) [3]
- Emperor Kanmu (d. 806) [4]
Deaths
- Fujiwara no Fusasaki, Japanese counselor (b. 681) [4] [5]
- Fujiwara no Maro, Japanese politician (b. 695) [6]
- Fujiwara no Muchimaro, Japanese minister (b. 680) [6]
- Fujiwara no Umakai, Japanese statesman (b. 694) [6] [7]
References
- ^ Brown, Delmer et al. (1979). Gukanshō, pp. 272–273; Varley, H. Paul. Jinnō Shōtōki, pp. 141–143; Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). Annales des empereurs du Japon, pp. 67–73., p. 67, at Google Books
- ^ Farris, William Wayne (1985). Population, Disease, and Land in Early Japan, 645-900. Harvard University Asia Center. pp. 65–66. ISBN 9780674690059.
- ^ Kuroita, Katsumi, ed. (1974). 続日本紀後編 [Shoku Nihongi Part 2]. Revised and Expanded Japanese History Compendium (新訂増補國史大系) (in Japanese). Yoshikawa Kōbunkan (吉川弘文館). ISBN 4642000046.
- ^ a b Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). Annales des empereurs du Japon, pp. 86–95, p. 86, at Google Books; Brown, Delmer M. Gukanshō, pp. 277–279; Varley, H. Paul. Jinnō Shōtōki, pp. 148–150.
- ^ Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "Fujiwara no Fusasaki" in Japan Encyclopedia, p. 202, p. 202, at Google Books; Brinkley, Frank et al. (1915). A History of the Japanese People from the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era, p. 203., p. 203, at Google Books
- ^ a b c Brinkley, p. 190., p. 190, at Google Books
- ^ Grapard, Allan G. (2016). Mountain Mandalas: Shugendo in Kyushu. Bloomsbury Publishing. p. 28. ISBN 978-1-4742-4901-0.
