後漢安帝の親政と外戚輔政

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  • Direct Governance under Late Han Dynasty Emperor An and Administrative Assistance of His Matrilineal Advisers
  • ゴカンアンテイ ノ シンセイ ト ガイセキスケセイ

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After the death of Late Han Emperor Shang 殤, Empress Dowager Deng 鄧 (chief consort of Emperor He; Hedi 和帝) should have added Hedi’s eldest son Liu Sheng 劉勝to the list of candidates for successor, but in actuality the Empress Dowager overlooked him in favor of Hedi’s nephew Liu Hu 劉祜, by creating a fictitious father-son relationship between Hedi and Liu Hu to ensure the latter’s accession to the throne as Emperor An (Andi 安帝). Because this action clearly deprived the Hedi-Liu Hu succession of any legitimacy, there were members of the bureaucracy who plotted to depose Andi and crown Liu Sheng emperor. Although the Empress Dowager acted as regent for Andi as heir to her husband’s throne, following her death, Andi decided to directly govern the Dynasty, and in order to solidify his regime, had the members of the Deng Family assassinated. As a result he was compelled to secure his own legitimacy as Hedi’s successor without relying on his position as Hedi’s heir. He then proceeded to base his legitimacy on the fact that he was the eldest grandson of Emperor Zhang (Zhangdi 章帝), claiming that he was continuing Zhangdi’s tradition of governance based on participation of his matrilineal kin in the regime. It was in this way that the Later Han system of imperial governance from the Andi regime on went through a significant transformation from the rule guided by prime minister to that assisted by maternal relatives (zaixiang 宰相). The author of this article concludes that a background factor in this was the politico-historical question of Andi’s lack of legitimacy. The research to date has placed the problem of an inherent weakness in the Late Han system of imperial governance in the context of the regency of the Empress Dowager, which led to the Political involvement of matrilineal kin in ruling China. However, he clearly shows that the problem also stemmed from the emperor’s lack of legitimacy in general.

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  • 東洋学報

    東洋学報 93 (4), 367-396, 2012-03

    東洋文庫

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