Talk:Emperor Montoku

How better to present these dates?
In the Kugyō section: ..................................................... lifetime, 804-872 ........ time in office (857-872) .......... Daijō-daijin (857-872) Fujiwara Yoshifusa　(藤原良房), 804-872
 * Daijō-daijin, Fujiwara Yoshifusa　(藤原良房), 857-872
 * Sadaijin, Minamoto Tokiwa　(源常), 844-854
 * Sadaijin, Minamoto Makoto　(源信), 857-868
 * Udaijin, Fujiwara Yoshifusa　(藤原良房), 848-857
 * Udaijin, Fujiwara Yoshisuke　(藤原良相), 857-867

In the intial edit, I intended to present the dates during which someone held a specific court title, but that now seems too ambitious for a start-level article. The intention had been to explain the sequence of serial officeholders with these dates.

Instead, it's probably better to simply list the birth/death dates. Arguably, it might be possible (or even preferable) to include both sets of dates as the information becomes available ...? --Ooperhoofd 17:40, 27 August 2007 (UTC)