Tsuki no wa no misasagi
Tsuki no wa no misasagi (月輪陵) is the name of a mausoleum in Higashiyama-ku, Kyoto used by successive generations of the Japanese Imperial Family. The tomb is situated in Sennyū-ji, a Buddhist temple founded in the early Heian period [1] which was the hereditary temple or bodaiji (菩提寺) of the Imperial family.[2]
Notable interments
Kamakura period
- 87 Emperor Shijō [3]
Edo period
The Imperial Household Agency maintains Tsuki no wa no misasagi as the place of enshrinement and the venue for veneration of several Edo period emperors.
- 108 Emperor Go-Mizunoo [5]
- 109 Empress Meishō [5]
- 110 Emperor Go-Kōmyō [5]
- 111 Emperor Go-Sai [5]
- 112 Emperor Reigen [5] and Takatsukasa Fusako
- 113 Emperor Higashiyama [5]
- 114 Emperor Nakamikado [5]
- 115 Emperor Sakuramachi [5]
- 116 Emperor Momozono [5]
- 117 Empress Go-Sakuramachi [5]
- 118 Emperor Go-Momozono [5]
In addition, this is the official misasagi for Prince Masahito, posthumously named Yōkwōin daijō-tennō, who was the eldest son of Emperor Ōgimachi and the father of Emperor Go-Yōzei.[6]
Three other Edo Period emperors are also enshrined at Nochi no tsuki no wa no Higashiyama no misasagi (後月輪東山陵) [5] The final resting places of two Empress Dowagers are also found in this Imperial tomb complex.
- 119 Emperor Kōkaku [5] and Empress Yoshiko [7]
- 120 Emperor Ninkō [5]
- 121 Emperor Kōmei [5] and Empress Eishō [8]
See also
Notes
- ↑ Ponsonby-Fane 1956, p. 113.
- ↑ Hall 1988, p. 383.
- 1 2 Ponsonby-Fane 1959, p. 422.
- ↑ "Sennyu-ji Temple, Kyoto". www.taleofgenji.org.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Ponsonby-Fane 1959, p. 423.
- ↑ Ponsonby-Fane 1959, p. 424.
- ↑ Ponsonby-Fane 1959, pp. 333–334.
- ↑ Ponsonby-Fane 1959, p. 335.
References
- Hall, John Whitney, ed. (1988). The Cambridge History of Japan: Early modern Japan. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-22355-3. OCLC 17483588.
- Ponsonby-Fane, Richard Arthur Brabazon (1956). Kyoto: The Old Capital of Japan, 794-1869. Kyoto: Ponsonby Memorial Society. OCLC 182637732.
- Ponsonby-Fane, Richard Arthur Brabazon (1959). The Imperial House of Japan. Kyoto: Ponsonby Memorial Society. OCLC 277269606.