Taishō

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The Taishō Emperor in 1912

The Taishō -tennō ( Japanese 大 正 天皇 ) (born August 31, 1879 in Tokyo , † December 25, 1926 in Hayama ) was the 123rd Tennō of Japan and the second of the modern period. His proper name was Yoshihito ( 嘉仁 ). The Taishō period is named after his tenure .

Life

Yoshihito was a son of Meiji- tennō Mutsuhito with Yanagiwara Naruko, a mistress at the imperial court. As was common with children of concubines at the time, he was recognized as the official child of the Emperor's wife Shoken . He was given the birth name Yoshihito and the title Haru no miya (Prince Haru) from Mutsuhito on September 6, 1879 . He was officially appointed heir to the throne on August 31, 1887 and had his formal induction as Crown Prince on November 3, 1888.

On May 10, 1900, he married Sadako, the daughter of Prince Kujō Mitchitaka , who took the name Teimei . He had four sons with her:

As a child he suffered from meningitis , which has restricted him since the 1910s. As crown prince, he toured all prefectures of Japan and in 1907 the Japanese protectorate of Korea , making him the first heir to the throne to stay outside Japan. With the death of his father in 1912 he ascended the throne. After he fell ill with a severe fever in July 1913, he often stayed outside the Japanese capital in Nikkō or Hayama on Sagami Bay . Like his father, he showed little interest in religion, although as Tennō he was the religious head of the state Shintō , and he stayed away from necessary rites. He spent his time composing Chinese style poems ( Kanshi ), of which he wrote a total of 1367. With the outbreak of the First World War , he returned to his political duties until he suffered a relapse during the outbreak of the rice unrest in July 1918 and from then on rarely appeared in public.

Funeral of Emperor Taisho in Tokyo

In April 1921, his son Hirohito was finally appointed regent for his incapable of government father. In December 1925, the Tennō was diagnosed with cerebral arteriosclerosis , the consequences of which he finally succumbed a year later. His remains rest in a mausoleum in the Musashi Imperial Cemetery .

Web links

Commons : Yoshihito  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Hara Takeshi: Taishō: An Enigmatic Emperor and his Influential Wife . In: Ben-Ami Shillony (Ed.): The Emperors of Modern Japan . Brill, 2008, ISBN 978-90-04-16822-0 , pp. 230-235 .
predecessor Office successor
Meiji Tennō
1912-1926
Shōwa