PersonAD 614 – AD 669
Nakatomi no Kamatari
Also called: Fujiwara no Kamatari
Wa noble who overthrew the Soga clan with Prince Naka no Ōe and led the Taika Reform; granted the surname Fujiwara before his death, he founded the Fujiwara clan
Where they went
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In 645 Prince Naka no Ōe and Nakatomi no Kamatari overthrew the overbearing Soga clan and began reforms, modelled on Tang law codes, to build a centralised state under the sovereign (tennō).
People who appear alongside
- Emperor TenjiAD 626 – AD 672
Ruler of Wa (r. 668–672) who, as Prince Naka no Ōe, overthrew the Soga clan in 645 and led the Taika Reform, and sent the army defeated at Baekgang
Themes this person appears in
- Sui, Tang and the East Asian WorldAD 317 – AD 979
From the divided Southern and Northern Dynasties and the Gupta age through the Sui and Tang empires to the founding of the Song — the age when an East Asian world sharing law codes, Buddhism, Confucianism and Chinese characters took shape, and Korea and Japan built their states on its model