# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/emperor-ninko
# Generated: 2026-08-31T17:36:45.728Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/emperor-ninko"
name: "Emperor Ninkō"
slug: "emperor-ninko"
description: "The 120th emperor of Japan sat the throne while the shogunate cracked beneath disasters and Western ships. His reign marked the first tremors of the bakumatsu — the unraveling that would end military rule — though whether he steered any of it remains unclear."
tagline: "Emperor of Japan (1800-1846)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Emperor_Nink%C5%8D.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
category:
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  slug: "historical-figures"
profileType:
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  slug: "historical-figure"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2798645"
birthDate: "1800-03-16"
deathDate: "1846-02-21"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           22.692152
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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  - name: "19th Century"
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    title: "Ninkō"
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    title: "仁孝天皇"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Ninkō took the throne in 1817 at seventeen and spent twenty-nine years watching the Tokugawa system corrode. Famines swept the islands, corruption festered in the bakufu, and foreign powers pressed at the coasts — none of which an emperor could command the shogun to fix. He revived old court rituals at his father's urging, a gesture toward ancient legitimacy while real power sat elsewhere. Of his fifteen children by various concubines, only three survived to adulthood; his fourth son, Osahito, inherited the throne when Ninkō died in 1846. The shogunate still ruled, but the ground had begun to shift.