uda-in

Updated: August 2, 2026

Therefore, he formed the plan of abdicating in favour of his son, as soon as the latter should attain a suitable age a plan inspired in some degree by his own feeble health and by a keen desire to pass the closing years of his life in comparative retirement. He carried out this design in the year 897, and was thenceforth known as Uda-in.

F. (Frank) Brinkley - A History of the Japanese People : From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era