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In 690 CE, she ascended not by conquest but by constitutional consensus—drafting Japan’s first codified succession edict that enshrined merit and precedent over mere bloodline, a radical departure from continental models. Empress Jitō oversaw the compilation of the Asuka Kiyomihara Code, embedding Confucian ethics into administrative law while preserving indigenous Shinto rites as state ceremony. She personally supervised land surveys using calibrated bamboo rods and celestial calendars, standardizing tax collection across provinces fractured by clan warfare. Her court hosted Korean scribes and Chinese monks not as subordinates but as co-authors of Japan’s first official chronicle, the Kojiki’s precursor texts—scribes who recorded her edicts in hybrid kanji-kana script before the system was formalized. She ruled during the twilight of the Asuka period, when bronze mirrors were still cast with cosmological inscriptions and silk roads ended not in Baghdad but in Naniwa port, where she received envoys bearing Persian glass and Baekje lacquerware. Her reign was measured in rice yields, temple foundations, and the quiet expansion of postal relay stations—infrastructure that outlived dynasties.
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