Prince Toneri

Prince Toneri (676–735), sixth son of Emperor Tenmu, was a leading imperial prince of the early Nara period. He supervised the compilation of the Nihon Shoki and presented the thirty-scroll chronicle to the court in 720.

After Fujiwara no Fuhito's death that year he headed the Council of State with Prince Nagaya, and in 729 interrogated Nagaya during the Nagaya Incident. He died in 735, and when his son Prince Ōi became Emperor Junnin, Toneri was posthumously titled Emperor Sudōjinkei.