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{{Infobox royalty
| name           =Seimu
| succession     =[[Emperor of Japan]]
| image          =Emperor Seimu.jpg
| reign          =131–191 (traditional)<ref>[http://www.kunaicho.go.jp/e-about/genealogy/img/keizu-e.pdf  "Genealogy of the Emperors of Japan" at Kunaicho.go.jp]; retrieved 2013-8-28.</ref>
| coronation     =
| predecessor    =[[Emperor Keikō|Keikō]]
| successor      =[[Emperor Chūai|Chūai]]
| father         =[[Emperor Keikō]]
| mother         =Yasakairihime
| birth_date  = 84
| birth_place =
| death_date  = {{death year and age|191|84}}
| death_place =
| place of burial=''Saki no Tatanami no misasagi''  (Nara)
|}}

{{nihongo|'''Emperor Seimu'''|成務天皇|''Seimu-[[tennō]]''}} was the 13th [[Emperor of Japan|emperor]] of [[Japan]],<ref name="kunaicho">[[Imperial Household Agency]] (''Kunaichō''), [http://www.kunaicho.go.jp/ryobo/guide/013/index.html 成務天皇 (13)]; retrieved 2011-10-19.</ref> according to the [[list of Emperors of Japan|traditional order of succession]].<ref>[[Isaac Titsingh|Titsingh, Isaac]]. (1834). ''Annales des empereurs du japon,'' pp. 14-15; Varley, Paul. (1980). ''Jinnō Shōtōki,'' pp. 99-100; Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric et al. (2002).  "Traditional order of Tennō" in ''Japan encyclopedia,'' pp. 962-963.</ref>  Historians consider Emperor Seimu to be a [[legend]]ary  person,<ref name="kelly">Kelly, Charles F. [http://www.t-net.ne.jp/~keally/kofun.html  "Kofun Culture,"] [http://www.t-net.ne.jp/~keally/index.htm  Japanese Archaeology.] April 27, 2009; retrieved 2011-10-19.</ref> and the name Seimu''-tennō'' was [[wikt:created|created]] for him [[Posthumous name|posthumously]] by later [[generation]]s.

No [[wikt:certain|certain]] dates can be [[wikt:assign|assigned]] to this emperor's life or [[wikt:reign|reign]].<ref name="pf30">Ponsonby-Fane, Richard. (1959). ''The Imperial House of Japan,'' p. 30.</ref>  The [[wikt:convention|conventionally]] accepted names and sequence of the early emperors were not to be [[wikt:confirm|confirmed]] as "traditional" until the reign of [[Emperor Kammu]], who was the 50th [[monarch]] of the [[Yamato dynasty]].<ref>[[William George Aston|Aston, William George]]. (1896). ''Nihongi,'' pp. 109.</ref> 

==Traditional history==
Seimu is almost certainly a [[wikt:legend|legend]]; but the ''[[Kojiki]]'' and ''[[Nihonshoki]]'' record his name.<ref name="aston188-124">Aston, William. (1998). ''Nihongi.'' Vol. 1, pp. 188-214.</ref>

==Events of Seimu's life==
The limited information about Seimu does not imply that no such person ever existed. Very little information is [[wikt:available|available]] for study prior to the reign of the 29th monarch, [[Emperor Kimmei]].<ref>Titsingh, pp. 34-36; Brown, pp. 261-262; Varley, pp. 123-124.</ref> 

=== After his death ===
This emperor's official name after his death (his [[posthumous name]]) was [[wikt:regularize|regularized]] many centuries after the lifetime which was [[wikt:ascribe|ascribed]] to Seimu.<ref name="aston188-124"/>

The actual [[site]] of his [[grave]] is not known.  According to the [[Imperial Household Agency]], this emperor is [[wikt:venerate|venerated]] at a [[memorial]] [[Shinto]] [[shrine]] (''misasagi'') at [[Nara, Nara|Nara]].<ref name="kunaicho"/>

==Related pages==
* [[Emperor of Japan]]
* [[List of emperors of Japan]]
* [[Japanese imperial family tree]]

== References ==
[[File:Mon-Imperial.png|thumb|120px|The [[chrysanthemum]] [[symbol]] of the [[Emperor of Japan|Japanese emperor]] and his family.]]
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