Suishō
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was a king of Wa (Japan)
. He is the first Japanese whose name appeared in the Chinese history.
Wa (Japan)
Japanese is the oldest recorded name of Japan. Chinese, Korean, and Japanese scribes regularly wrote Wa or Yamato "Japan" with the Chinese character 倭 until the 8th century, when the Japanese found fault with it, replacing it with 和 "harmony, peace, balance".- Historical references :The earliest...
. He is the first Japanese whose name appeared in the Chinese history.
Historical references
The only historical record about Suishō is a brief sentence on Volume 85 of the Book of the Later Han.In the first year of Yongchu during the reign of the Emeperor AnEmperor An of HanEmperor Ān of Hàn, ch. 漢安帝, py. hàn ān dì, wg. Han An-ti, was an emperor of the Chinese Hàn Dynasty and the sixth emperor of the Eastern Hàn period ruling from 106 to 125...
(AD 107), Suishō, the king of Wa, presented 160 生口 (slaves?) [to the emperor], and entreated an audience.