{
 "source": "Text: the book’s Chapter 2 as it stood in Solterra’s Cut 25b, before the empress names, the two late empresses and the Awazu detail moved here in 25c. Anthony Reid’s work on pre-colonial female roles in Southeast Asia (quoted as the book quotes it). The Tale of the Heike, the chronicle the book quotes on Tomoe Gozen.",
 "sources": [
  "Text: the book’s Chapter 2 as it stood in Solterra’s Cut 25b, before the empress names, the two late empresses and the Awazu detail moved here in 25c.",
  "Anthony Reid’s work on pre-colonial female roles in Southeast Asia (quoted as the book quotes it).",
  "The Tale of the Heike, the chronicle the book quotes on Tomoe Gozen."
 ],
 "extracted": "2026-09-26, moved out of src/app/rice-country-rulers/page.tsx unchanged so the page and its download read one file",
 "tables": {
  "EMPRESSES": [
   {
    "n": "1",
    "name": "Suiko",
    "when": "Sixth to eighth centuries"
   },
   {
    "n": "2",
    "name": "Kogyoku",
    "when": "Sixth to eighth centuries"
   },
   {
    "n": "3",
    "name": "Jito",
    "when": "Sixth to eighth centuries"
   },
   {
    "n": "4",
    "name": "Genmei",
    "when": "Sixth to eighth centuries"
   },
   {
    "n": "5",
    "name": "Gensho",
    "when": "Sixth to eighth centuries"
   },
   {
    "n": "6",
    "name": "Koken",
    "when": "Sixth to eighth centuries"
   },
   {
    "n": "7",
    "name": "Meishō",
    "when": "Seventeenth century, after a long interval"
   },
   {
    "n": "8",
    "name": "Go-Sakuramachi",
    "when": "Eighteenth century, after a long interval"
   }
  ],
  "ROLL": [
   {
    "who": "Queen Seondeok",
    "where": "Silla, Korea",
    "when": "632 CE",
    "what": "Enthroned in a rice kingdom on the peninsula; built the Cheomseongdae observatory, the oldest surviving astronomical observatory in East Asia."
   },
   {
    "who": "Wu Zetian",
    "where": "Tang China",
    "when": "690",
    "what": "Seized the throne outright and ruled for fifteen years, the only undisputed female emperor in Chinese history."
   },
   {
    "who": "Women rulers of Sumatra",
    "where": "Southeast Asia",
    "when": "Seventeenth century",
    "what": "So many women held political power that male authorities eventually moved to ban female rule entirely. The ban itself is the evidence."
   },
   {
    "who": "Tomoe Gozen",
    "where": "Japan",
    "when": "Battle of Awazu, 1184",
    "what": "One of the onna-bugeisha, the female warriors of the samurai class; fought among three hundred warriors at Awazu."
   },
   {
    "who": "The Trung Sisters",
    "where": "Vietnam",
    "when": "40 CE",
    "what": "Raised an army and drove the Han Dynasty out of their homeland: the first Vietnamese independence movement, led by two women."
   }
  ]
 }
}