Go-Mizunoo

Go-Mizunoo ( Japanese 後水尾天皇 , Go-Mizunoo-tennō ; born June 29, 1596 , † September 11, 1680 ) was Tennō of Japan from 1611 to 1629 . He was the successor to Go-Yōzei .

Life

His wife was Tokugawa Kazuko , a daughter of the Shogun Tokugawa Hidetada . She was also the mother of his daughter and later Meishō -tennō.

Politically, the Tennō did not play a major role. That it in 1613 to a total ban on Christian mission ( Bateren tsuihōrei came), missionaries and even Christian daimyo reported, were also later executed, was a decision of the abdicated first Tokugawa - Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu , who until his death in 1616, the political power held in hands.

The marriage between Go-Mizunoo and Kazuko also originated from the aspect of the shogunate. Since no male heir was born, the Shogun made Kazuko's daughter Meishō his successor. Go-Mizunoo had some children after his dethronement, including the father of the Tennō Go-Kōmyō , Go-Sai and Reigen . They ascended the throne after Empress Meishō, the Japanese imperial family descended from one of Meishō's sons.

Dowager Empress Sakiko , the daughter of Konoe Sakihisa , played a certain role in the background in the background of the abrupt abdication of her son in 1629;

Kazuko was very different from Go-Mizunoo and their marriage was problematic. After Go-Mizunoo had handed over the throne to Meishō, the imperial couple moved away. Go-Mizunoo built the Shugakuin Villa in a suburb of Kyoto, which is still owned by the imperial family today. He lived there with his ladies-in-waiting, with whom he had some children. His 15th daughter Shinanomiya Tsuneko ( 常子内親王 , Tsuneko-naishinnō ) was married to the regent Konoe Motohiro .

Web links

Family table of Japanese emperors (The Imperial Household Agency )

Individual evidence

↑ Lee Butler: Emperor and Aristocracy in Japan, 1467-1680. Resilience and Renewal (= Harvard East Asian Monographs. Vol. 209). Harvard University Press, Cambridge MA 2002, ISBN 0-674-00851-0 , p. 242.

predecessor	Office	successor
Go-yozei	Tennō 1611 - 1629	Meishō

personal data
SURNAME	Go-Mizunoo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	後水尾天皇 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Tennō of Japan
DATE OF BIRTH	June 29, 1596
DATE OF DEATH	September 11, 1680

[1] Lee Butler: Emperor and Aristocracy in Japan, 1467-1680. Resilience and Renewal (= Harvard East Asian Monographs. Vol. 209). Harvard University Press, Cambridge MA 2002, ISBN 0-674-00851-0 , p. 242.