{"id":417,"date":"2010-05-05T16:14:40","date_gmt":"2010-05-05T16:14:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/japanese\/?p=417"},"modified":"2010-05-05T16:14:40","modified_gmt":"2010-05-05T16:14:40","slug":"imperial-mothers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/japanese\/imperial-mothers\/","title":{"rendered":"Imperial Mothers"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>In honor of this coming Mother’s Day, I thought I’d introduce some exceptional imperial mothers. Like other countries, Japan celebrates Mother’s Day on the second Sunday of May. However, it used to be that\u00a0Mother’s\u00a0Day\u00a0was celebrated on Empress K\u014djun’s (\u9999\u6df3\u7687\u540e<\/strong>) birthday. She was the longest reigning empress when she\u00a0passed away at\u00a097 years of age.<\/p>\n

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Another important empress is Empress Michiko (\u7687\u540e\u7f8e\u667a\u5b50<\/strong>). She is the first commoner to have married into the royal family. Empress Michiko is different from the other empresses in that she has a college degree. She has even attended prestigious\u00a0universities like Harvard and Oxford.\u00a0She is also different from her predecessors in that she has chosen to raise her own children, out of the care of the palace nannies.<\/p>\n

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Empress Sh\u014dken (\u662d\u61b2\u7687\u540e<\/strong>) was the first empress to play a public role in Japanese society.\u00a0She wore Western clothing and encouraged women to attain higher education. Empress Sh\u014dken was unable to bear children, and under royal protocol, she had to accept that her husband would have royal concubines. Although she doesn’t have any children of her own, you could say she was the\u00a0mother of the nation\u00a0through her charity work.<\/p>\n

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Unlike Empress Sh\u014dken, Empress Teimei (\u8c9e\u660e\u7687\u540e<\/strong>), was more of a behind-the-scenes empress. She was a woman of strong will. When her husband grew ill, she tried to carry out his duties. Empress Teimei had a vigorous objection to the War, and there were some periods of estrangement with her son over this issue. She also secretly plotted the downfall of Prime Minister Hideki T\u014dj\u014d (\u6771\u689d \u82f1\u6a5f<\/strong>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\"\"

In honor of this coming Mother’s Day, I thought I’d introduce some exceptional imperial mothers. Like other countries, Japan celebrates Mother’s Day on the second Sunday of May. However, it used to be that\u00a0Mother’s\u00a0Day\u00a0was celebrated on Empress K\u014djun’s (\u9999\u6df3\u7687\u540e) birthday. She was the longest reigning empress when she\u00a0passed away at\u00a097 years of age. Another important…<\/p>\n

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