How many teenage emperors are there in Japanese history?
Editor's Note: Recently, the question of whether a woman can become an emperor has caused a heated discussion in Japan. In fact, in Japanese history, there were eight female emperors in the 10 generation, forming a unique era of female emperors.
In people's impression, Japan has always been a country that pursues the idea that men are superior to women. However, among the emperors who have continued 126 generations in Japan since ancient times, there are 10 generations of female emperors. From 592 to 770, in less than 200 years, there were six female emperors in eight generations in Japan, who were in office for nearly 90 years, forming a unique era of female emperors in Japanese history.
The first female emperor married her brother.
Emperor Toshiya is the first female emperor in Japanese history. She is the princess of Qin Ming, the 29th Japanese Emperor. /kloc-At the age of 0/8, the beautiful Tugu was taken as a concubine by the half-brother Ming Emperor and became a queen five years later. After the death of Emperor Mingda, Tuigu didn't squeeze into the core of the royal family at first, but a great event later pushed her to the throne of the emperor. In 592 AD, the reigning emperor Shen Chong was assassinated by the powerful minister. After putting down the rebellion, Tuygu's son Prince Takeda and his nephew Shoto Kutaishi fought fiercely for the throne. Because the two factions were equally powerful and deadlocked, they finally had to reach a compromise. Neither of them was an emperor, and * * * embraced Tugu, 38, as emperor.
Although she is a woman, Emperor Tugu has a political mind. Instead of settling accounts with Shoto Kutaishi, who once competed with her son for the throne, she asked him to be regent to help her govern the country. Through her tolerance, she bridged the rift within the royal family. During her 36 years in power, there was no turmoil in the royal family for the throne, and the society was stable.
With the help of Shoto Kutaishi, Emperor Tugu carried out a series of reform measures. She strengthened imperial power, limited big noble's influence, and spared no effort to promote Buddhism, which pushed Japan to a rapid development era. Emperor Tugu also actively strengthened ties with China, trying to be on an equal footing with China. In 607, Emperor Tuguhun sent a mission to China. In her credentials, she changed her previous statement as a dependent country of China and demanded equal diplomatic relations with China. Although Emperor Tuguhun refused to submit to China, she actively advocated learning the advanced culture of China. Emperor Tuguhun sent people to visit Sui four times. With the import of a large number of China cultures, Japan ushered in the first cultural prosperity era in history-the Asuka period.
In 628, the 74-year-old emperor died of illness. She is the most outstanding of the eight female emperors in Japan and is still widely praised by Japanese society.
The female emperor who ascended the throne twice wanted to lead an army to invade North Korea.
Only 14 years after the death of Emperor Toshiya, the Emperor became the second female emperor in Japan. It is worth mentioning that she ascended the throne twice in her life.
Huangdi is the queen of the 34th emperor. After the death of Emperor Shu Ming, the Japanese royal family fell into a long-term crisis of contention. In 642 AD, the parties finally reached a compromise, and a transitional female emperor, the Yellow Emperor, was born.
During Huang Ji's reign, his greatest contribution was to regain power from Su Jia, who had been in power for a hundred years. After Huang Ji ascended the throne, the power of minister Su I to enter the deer expanded sharply. He did the opposite, killing innocent people and even executing a prince. With the acquiescence of Huang Ji, members of the royal family joined forces with ministers who were dissatisfied with Su Shi's autocratic power in North Korea, and prepared to take advantage of the opportunity of tribute from North Korean envoys to kill Su Yi and enter the deer. On June 12, 645, unsuspecting Su I entered the deer and was cheated into the palace. The eldest brother, the Prince (the son of the emperor), personally led the samurai to chop it into a paste, and then sent his troops to annihilate the Su family. After this thrilling political struggle, the exhausted emperor voluntarily abdicated and gave the throne to Emperor Kotoku.
In 654, Emperor Kotoku died of illness, and Huang Ji, 6 1 year-old, came out of the mountain again in a critical situation. The following year, he became emperor and became the 37th generation emperor-Qi Mingdi. Huang Ji, who has entered her later years, became extravagant after she re-ascended the throne. She built pavilions on a large scale and requisitioned a large number of migrant workers, which aggravated social contradictions. At the same time, Huang Ji's ambition greatly expanded and he began to plot to annex North Korea. In 66 1 year, Huang Ji went to Kyushu to explore Korea across the sea, but he fell ill because of the fatigue of the journey and died in Kyushu in July of that year. Two years later, her successor sent troops to invade Korea on a large scale. As a result, she was defeated by the allied forces of Tang Dynasty and Silla in the Battle of Baicun River, and Ji Di's dream of conquering Korea was completely shattered.
Two emperors, mother and daughter, created the prosperity of ancient Japan.
In 686, Empress Zhitong became the third female emperor in Japan, but she did not do much in Japanese history and left too many records. It was not until more than 20 years later that the appearance of two female emperors, Yuan Ming and Jacky, made the eyes of the world shine again.
Emperor Ming Di and Emperor Jacky were the fourth and fifth female emperors in Japanese history. In June 707, Yuan Ming Di ascended the throne. Yuan Ming, full of political courage, took three important measures: first, he began to cast silver coins and copper coins in circulation; The second is the imperial edict to Jianping Chengjing (Nara); The third is to appoint capable people as important ministers. These measures greatly promoted the social and economic development of Japan at that time.
In March of July10, Ming Chengzu officially ordered the capital to be moved from Fujiwara torii to Heisei well, and the famous "Nara era" in Japanese history began. After the Yuan and Ming Dynasties moved their capital to Nara, they continued to implement many measures to stabilize politics, develop economy and prosper culture, with remarkable results, and the precursors of prosperous times have appeared. In 7 15 AD, Ming Chengzu gave way to his daughter Jacky.
Yuan Ming Di is a very thrifty woman. 72 1 year, Yuan Ming died. In her testamentary edict, she said that everyone dies, and a thick burial can only be wasted and meaningless. Therefore, she ordered that she must be cremated after death. Graves should be simple and not extravagant, and officials and people should work as usual. As an emperor 1000 years ago, we have to say that she is very open-minded.
Jacky, the daughter of Yuan Ming Di, is a very educated and slightly conservative woman. Her series of strategies for governing the country are based on her mother, Yuan Ming Di. During the reign of these two emperors, Japanese politics tended to be stable and the economy developed rapidly. Under their impetus, Japan has also strengthened its study and absorption of China culture. Throughout the Nara era, the Japanese had frequent contacts with the Tang Dynasty, and many envoys were sent to China to study. One of them sent as many as 594 envoys. At that time, Japan's ruling and opposition parties were very fashionable, imitating everything in the Tang Dynasty, and even Beijing was built after the model of Chang 'an.
In 724, Jacky gave way to Emperor Shengwu, ending his nine-year emperor career. Despite his political success, Jacky's personal life was a tragedy. As an emperor, she could not marry a mortal, never married, and finally died in loneliness.
The romantic female emperor fell in love with the monk.
Kejsarinnan Koken, who ascended the throne in 749 AD, is the sixth female emperor and the most notorious among the eight female emperors. Although he is the emperor, Xiao Gan doesn't want to repeat the mistake of Jacky living alone all his life. She started an underground love affair with her cousin Fujiwara Nakama, and moved to Fujiwara's house on the pretext of maintaining the palace, and lived with her openly. In 754 AD, Kejsarinnan Koken was appointed as a Taoist priest by Jian Zhen, a famous monk in the Tang Dynasty. Suddenly, she found spiritual sustenance in blue lanterns and yellow scrolls to pass the lonely time. Four years later, he gave way to the filial piety of the Buddha and became the Emperor Chunren, devoting himself to fasting and chanting Buddha. However, Xiaoqian did not forget to have fun while chanting Buddhism, and soon she found a new lover-a monk and a Taoist mirror. In 764, Xiao Gan abolished Emperor Chunren and re-ascended the throne, renamed Dedi. Taoism followed suit and was established as a national teacher, temporarily in charge of power. However, he is not satisfied with being the lover of the emperor, but also wants to usurp the throne. As a result, his plot was exposed and finally abandoned by Xiao Gan. In 770, Xiao Gan died of smallpox in his palace.
In addition to the six female emperors mentioned above, Zheng Ming, the seventh female emperor, ascended the throne in 1629 and reigned in 14. The eighth female emperor was Emperor Sakuramachi, who acceded to the throne in 1762 and reigned for 8 years. Neither of them has achieved much. After the death of Empress Housakuramachi, the history of Empress Japan came to an end.
The ancient Japanese emperor held real power. When there is a crisis in the transfer of imperial power, in order to avoid large-scale bloodshed and ensure the peaceful transfer of power, women with real power, such as the queen or empress dowager, first ascended the throne, and then abdicated when the crown prince grew up, so that the crown prince could ascend the throne. Therefore, these female emperors are also called "transitional emperors". They did play a role in easing the power struggle, avoiding bloody conflicts and ensuring the peaceful handover of the throne. With their intelligence, they wrote an important chapter in Japanese history and became a unique and beautiful landscape in the family of Japanese emperors. (Liu Zuokui) References:
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