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In ancient Japan, most of the empresses consort were princesses, except for Iwa no hime (empress consort of Nintoku). After Empress Kōmyō (empress consort of Shōmu), daughters of the Fujiwara clan or other clans could become empresses consort. Kōtaigō (皇太后) – Empress Mother/Empress Dowager
This category lists consorts of Japanese emperors. For reigning empresses, see Category:Japanese empresses regnant . Wikimedia Commons has media related to Empresses of Japan .
List of Japanese monarchs; List of Japanese empresses; Emperor of Japan; Subcategories. This category has the following 16 subcategories, out of 16 total. A. Japanese ...
The terms Tennō ('Emperor', 天皇), as well as Nihon ('Japan', 日本), were not adopted until the late 7th century AD. [ 6 ] [ 2 ] In the nengō system which has been in use since the late 7th century, years are numbered using the Japanese era name and the number of years which have elapsed since the start of that nengō era.
List of empresses of the Byzantine successor states; H. List of Holy Roman empresses; J. Empress of Japan; Junbo-Ritsugō ...
Michiko (美智子, born Michiko Shōda [正田 美智子 Shōda Michiko] on 20 October 1934) is a member of the Imperial House of Japan. She was Empress of Japan as the wife of Akihito, the 125th Emperor of Japan reigning from 7 January 1989 to 30 April 2019. Michiko married Crown Prince Akihito and became Crown Princess of Japan in 1959.
Over half of Japanese empresses and many emperors abdicated once a suitable male descendant was considered to be old enough to rule (just past toddlerhood, in some cases). Four empresses, Empress Suiko , Empress Kōgyoku (also Empress Saimei ), and Empress Jitō , as well as the legendary Empress Jingū , were widows of deceased emperors and ...
Masako (雅子, born Masako Owada (小和田雅子, Owada Masako); 9 December 1963) is Empress of Japan as the wife of Emperor Naruhito.. Born in Tokyo, Masako was educated at Belmont High School in Massachusetts before attending Harvard College, earning a B.A., magna cum laude, in economics. [1]