Empress Go-Sakuramachi
Empress Go-Sakuramachi 後桜町天皇 | |||||
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Shōgun Tokugawa Ieharu (1762–1771) | | ||||
Born | Toshiko (智子) 23 September 1740 Tokugawa shogunate | ||||
Died | 24 December 1813 Kyoto, Tokugawa shogunate | (aged 73)||||
Burial | Tsuki no wa no misasagi, Kyoto | ||||
Issue | Emperor Kōkaku (adopted son) | ||||
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House | Yamato | ||||
Father | Emperor Sakuramachi | ||||
Mother | Nijō Ieko | ||||
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Empress Go-Sakuramachi and her brother
Events of Go-Sakuramachi's life
Early life
Before Go-Sakuramachi's accession to the
Reign
On 15 September 1762 Princess Toshiko acceded to the throne as Empress when her brother Emperor Momozono abdicated in her favor.[4][7] Momozono's son, Prince Hidehito (later to be known as Emperor Go-Momozono) was only 4 years old at this time. Hidehito's empress aunt was expected to occupy the throne until her nephew would be able to take on the burden of responsibility. While she held the political title of Empress, it was in name only as the shoguns (generalissimos) of the Tokugawa family controlled Japan. There was only one major incident during Go-Sakuramachi's reign in 1766, which involved unsuccessful plans to displace the shogunate with restored Imperial powers.[8] While the attempt was thwarted, additional challenges to the shōgun's authority would come a decade or so later under the reign of Emperor Kōkaku. Other events in Go-Sakuramachi's life included the founding of a merchant association handling Korean ginseng in the Kanda district of Edo.[9] The year 1770 saw a great comet (Lexell's Comet) with a very long tail light up the night skies throughout the summer and autumn.[10] During the same year two major disasters unfolded which included a typhoon that flattened the newly built Imperial Palace in Kyoto, and the start of a 15 year consecutive drought.[10] Go-Sakuramachi abdicated on 9 January 1771 in favor of her nephew Hidehito.[5]
Daijō Tennō
Go-Sakuramachi became a
Go-Sakuramachi's kami is enshrined in the Imperial mausoleum (misasagi), Tsuki no wa no misasagi, at Sennyū-ji in Higashiyama-ku, Kyoto. Also enshrined in this location are this empress's immediate Imperial predecessors since Emperor Go-Mizunoo – Meishō, Go-Kōmyō, Go-Sai, Reigen, Higashiyama, Nakamikado, Sakuramachi and Momozono, along with her four immediate successors – Go-Momozono, Kōkaku, Ninkō, and Kōmei.[11]
Legacy
In the
Eras and Kugyō
The years of Go-Sakuramachi's reign are more specifically identified by more than one
The following eras occurred during Go-Sakuramachi's reign:
During Go-Sakuramachi's reign, this apex of the Daijō-kan included:
Ancestry
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See also
- Empress of Japan
- Emperor of Japan
- Japanese imperial succession debate
- Imperial cult
- Modern system of ranked Shinto shrines
Notes
- ^ Imperial Household Agency (Kunaichō): 後桜町天皇 (120)
- ^ Ponsonby-Fane, Richard. (1959). The Imperial House of Japan, p. 120.
- ^ Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). Annales des empereurs du Japon, pp. 419–420.
- ^ a b c Titsingh, p. 419.
- ^ a b c Meyer, Eva-Maria. (1999). Japans Kaiserhof in der Edo-Zeit, p. 186.
- ^ Brinkley, Frank. (1907). A History of the Japanese People, p. 621.
- ^ Meyer, p. 186; Titsingh, p. 419.
- ^ Screech, T. Secret Memoirs of the Shoguns, pp. 139–145.
- ^ Hall, John. (1988). The Cambridge History of Japan, p. xxiii.
- ^ a b Hall, John. (1955). Tanuma Okitsugu, 1719–1788, p. 120.
- ^ Ponsonby-Fane, Richard. (1959). Imperial House, p. 423.
- ^ "Life in the Cloudy Imperial Fishbowl," Japan Times. 27 March 2007.
- ^ "Genealogy". Reichsarchiv (in Japanese). 30 April 2010. Retrieved 20 January 2018.
References
- Brinkley, Frank. (1907). A History of the Japanese People from the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era. New York: Encyclopædia Britannica. OCLC 413099
- Meyer, Eva-Maria. (1999). Japans Kaiserhof in der Edo-Zeit: unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Jahre 1846 bis 1867. Münster: LIT Verlag.
- OCLC 182637732
- __________. (1959). The Imperial House of Japan. Kyoto: Ponsonby Memorial Society. OCLC 194887
- Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). Annales des empereurs du Japon (Nihon Ōdai Ichiran). Paris: Royal Asiatic Society, Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain and Ireland. OCLC 5850691