737 in Japan

← 736 735 734 737 in Japan → 738 739 740
Decades:	710s 720s 730s 740s 750s
See also:	Other events of 737 History of Japan  • Timeline  • Years

Events in the year 737 in Japan .

Incumbents

• Monarch: Emperor Shōmu ^[1]

Events

• A major Japanese smallpox epidemic that started in 735 finally runs its course, but only after causing an estimated 25% to 35% mortality among the adult population in the country. ^[2]

Births

• Fujiwara no Tanetsugu, Japanese nobleman (d. 785) ^[3]
• Emperor Kanmu (d. 806) ^[4]

Deaths

• Fujiwara no Fusasaki, Japanese counselor (b. 681) ^{[4] [5]}
• Fujiwara no Maro, Japanese politician (b. 695) ^[6]
• Fujiwara no Muchimaro, Japanese minister (b. 680) ^[6]
• Fujiwara no Umakai, Japanese statesman (b. 694) ^{[6] [7]}

References

1. Brown, Delmer et al. (1979). Gukanshō, pp. 272–273; Varley, H. Paul. Jinnō Shōtōki, pp. 141–143; Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). Annales des empereurs du Japon, pp. 67–73. , p. 67, at Google Books
2. Farris, William Wayne (1985). Population, Disease, and Land in Early Japan, 645-900. Harvard University Asia Center. pp. 65–66. ISBN   9780674690059.
3. Kuroita, Katsumi, ed. (1974). 続日本紀後編[Shoku Nihongi Part 2]. Revised and Expanded Japanese History Compendium (新訂増補國史大系) (in Japanese). Yoshikawa Kōbunkan (吉川弘文館). ISBN   4642000046.
4. Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). Annales des empereurs du Japon, pp. 86–95 , p. 86, at Google Books; Brown, Delmer M. Gukanshō, pp. 277–279; Varley, H. Paul. Jinnō Shōtōki, pp. 148–150.
5. Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "Fujiwara no Fusasaki" in Japan Encyclopedia, p. 202 , p. 202, at Google Books; Brinkley, Frank et al. (1915). A History of the Japanese People from the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era, p. 203. , p. 203, at Google Books
6. Brinkley, p. 190. , p. 190, at Google Books
7. Grapard, Allan G. (2016). Mountain Mandalas: Shugendo in Kyushu. Bloomsbury Publishing. p. 28. ISBN   978-1-4742-4901-0.