Shotoku Taishi (573-621), the Prince of Holy Virtue, was a Japanese regent, statesman, and scholar. He prepared the Seventeen-article Constitution in 604 and contributed significantly to the political-cultural development that led to the Taika Reform...

574-622 Japanese Prince Shotoku Taishi was born in Yamato, Japan, in 574. As the crown prince of Japan, he helped to shape Japanese culture and history in many aspects. Specifically, he was instrumental in the development of Japanese constitutional...

573-621 Japanese prince who greatly influenced the development of his country, and who is traditionally regarded as the father of Japanese arithmetic. Shotoku authored the "Seventeen-Article Constitution" (604), which provided the...

574–622. One of the greatest men in Japanese history. Suzuki calls him the father of Japanese Bsm. As Prince Regent to his aunt, the Empress Suiko, he used his patronage and genius to see that Bsm. struck root in Japanese soil. He built many...

SHOTOKU TAISHI (574–622), or Prince Shotoku, was a member of the Japanese imperial family during the sixth and seventh centuries CE. He was responsible for Japan's first constitution as well as the spread of Buddhism in Japan. He is also...

Prince Shōtoku (聖徳太子, Shōtoku Taishi?, 573–621), also known as Prince Umayado (厩戸皇子, Umayado no ōji?), was a regent and a politician of the Asuka period in Japan. According to the Nihon Shoki, Shōtoku succeeded in establishing a...

Prince, funk, 'N Sync hit town at once By NICK CARTER of the Journal Sentinel staff Saturday, November 11, 2000 In an unlikely convergence of musical talent, The Artist Once Again Known as Prince, chart-topping boy band 'N Sync and...

Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince. Edited and translated by Angelo M. Codevilla, commentary by William B. Allen, Hadley Arkes, and Carnes Lord (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997), 151 pp., $11.00. This new translation of Machiavelli's The Prince appears as part of a...