Musashi Imperial Cemetery
The Musashi Imperial Cemetery ( Japanese 武 蔵 陵墓 地 , Musashi ryōbochi ) is a cemetery in Japan . It is located near Hachiōji in Tokyo Prefecture and is named after the ancient Musashi Province . The monumental cemetery houses mausoleums in which two Japanese rulers and their wives were buried, the emperors Taishō and Shōwa and the empresses Teimei and Kōjun .
history
Taishō was the first Tennō (emperor) to live in or around Tokyo all his life (his father Meiji grew up in Kyoto and was buried there). Two months before Taishō's death on December 25, 1926, an ordinance had been issued to build a mausoleum near the then village of Yokoyama (now a district of Hachiōji). One day after the official memorial service at Shinjuku Gyoen , his body was brought here and buried on February 8, 1927. The location was chosen because of its earthquake safety. The design of the mausoleum was based on Emperor Meiji's tomb Fushimi no momoyama no Misasagi ( 伏 見 桃 山陵 ) in Kyoto.
From 1931 to 1945 the railway company Keiō Denki Kidō operated the Goryō line , which connected the cemetery with the Kitano station and enabled direct trains to Shinjuku . In 1951 that of the emperor's widow Teimei was added to the east of Taishō's mausoleum . The mausoleum for Emperor Shōwa was built in 1989, and the mausoleum for Empress Kōjun was completed in 2000.
In November 2013, the Imperial Court Office confirmed press reports that Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko do not traditionally want to be buried in a burial like their immediate ancestors , but want a cremation . For this purpose, the Imperial Cemetery is being expanded to include a crematorium . The ashes are then to be kept in two smaller individual mausoleums, which are to be built on the west side of Taishō's tomb. This change in the imperial funeral rites will mark the end of a 350-year tradition.
investment
The Imperial Cemetery is a spacious, semi-natural park in a hilly area that includes forests, rocks and individual trees. In addition to the stone mausoleums, there are also smaller monuments and religious buildings such as torii . The access road is lined with Zelkoven .
| Surname | Year of death | Name of the mausoleum | photo |
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| Emperor Taishō (Yoshihito) | 1926 | Tama no Misasagi ( 多 摩 陵 ) |
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| Empress Teimei | 1951 | Tama no Higashi no Misasagi ( 多 摩 東陵 ) |
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| Emperor Shōwa (Hirohito) | 1989 | Musashino no Misasagi ( 武 藏 野 陵 ) |
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| Empress Kōjun | 2000 | Musashino no Higashi no Misasagi ( 武 藏 野 東陵 ) |
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Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Edward Seidensticker: Tokyo Rising: The City Since the Great Earthquake . Harvard University Press , Cambridge (Mass.) 1991, ISBN 0-674-89461-8 , pp. 20 .
- ↑ 闘 病 の 日 々 、 淡 々 と 記述 「大 正 天皇 実 録」 第 ３ 回 公開. Asahi Shimbun , June 5, 2008, archived from the original on November 19, 2018 ; Retrieved February 14, 2020 (Japanese).
- ↑ mausoleum cremation plans revealed for emperor, empress. The Asahi Shimbun , November 15, 2013, archived from the original on March 4, 2016 ; accessed on February 14, 2020 (English).
Coordinates: 35 ° 39 ′ 1.8 ″ N , 139 ° 16 ′ 50.3 ″ E