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{{Short description|Late 600's Japanese legal code}}{{Use mdy dates|date = February 2019}}
The {{Nihongo|'''Ōmi Code'''|近江令|ōmiryō}} are a collection of governing rules compiled in 668AD, hence being the first collection of [[Ritsuryō]] laws in [[classical Japan]]. These laws were compiled by [[Fujiwara no Kamatari]] under the order of [[Emperor Tenji]]. This collection of laws is now lost and its disputed existence is supported only by short references in later documents (among which the ''[[Tōshi Kaden]]'', a history of the Fujiwara).
It is furthermore missing from the ''[[Nihon Shoki]]''.
The ''Ōmi-ryō'', consisting of 22 volumes, was promulgated in the last year of Tenji's reign.<ref>Ponsonby-Fane, Richard. (1959). ''The Imperial House of Japan,'' p. 52.</ref> This legal codification is no longer extant, but it is said to have been refined in what is known as the [[Asuka Kiyomihara Code|Asuka Kiyomihara ''ritsu-ryō'']] of 689; and these are understood to have been a forerunner of the Taihō ''ritsu-ryō'' of 701.<ref>Varley, p. 136 n43.</ref>
==See also==
* [[Ritsuryō]]
* [[Taihō Code]]
* [[Yōrō Code]]
* [[Asuka Kiyomihara Code]]
==Notes==
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==References==
* [[Richard Ponsonby-Fane|Ponsonby-Fane]], Richard Arthur Brabazon. (1959). [https://books.google.com/books?id=SLAeAAAAMAAJ&q=The+Imperial+House+of+Japan  ''The Imperial House of Japan.''] Kyoto: Ponsonby Memorial Society. [http://www.worldcat.org/wcpa/oclc/194887 OCLC 194887]
* Varley, H. Paul, ed. (1980). [[Kitabatake Chikafusa]], 1359, ''[[Jinnō Shōtōki]] ("A Chronicle of Gods and Sovereigns: Jinnō Shōtōki of Kitabatake Chikafusa" translated by H. Paul Varley).'' New York: [[Columbia University Press]].  {{ISBN|0-231-04940-4}}.
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