Prince Shōtoku

Regent for Empress Suiko who issued the Seventeen-Article Constitution, sent envoys to Sui China and founded Hōryū-ji.

Lived	AD 574 – AD 622
Known as	Regent of Japan
Birthplace or main place	Nara
Places on the map	Nara

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Who ruled these places in her lifetime

Place	At birth (map of AD 500)	At death (map of AD 600)
Nara	Yamato	same

From the border maps nearest to each date; borders are approximate.

Contemporaries

Lived	Person
c. AD 570 – AD 632	Muhammad	Prophet of Islam
AD 598 – AD 649	Emperor Taizong of Tang	Tang emperor
AD 602 – AD 664	Xuanzang	Buddhist monk and translator

Last updated 9 November 2026. Sources: border data from historical-basemaps, land and rivers from Natural Earth; texts written for Chronica Maps from standard reference works. How we make the maps.

Prince Shōtoku

Who ruled these places in her lifetime

Further reading

Contemporaries