Empress Dowager Teimei
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| Sadako Kujo | ||
|---|---|---|
| Empress of Japan | ||
| Image:Empress Sadako.jpg | ||
| Titles | HIM The Empress Dowager of Japan (1926-1951) HIM The Empress of Japan (1912-1926) HIH The Crown Princess of Japan (1900-1912) HIH Princess Sadako of Kujo | |
| Born | June 25, 1884 | |
| Tokyo, Japan | ||
| Died | May 17, 1951 | |
| Tokyo, Japan | ||
| Consort | July 30, 1912 - December 25, 1926 | |
| Consort to | Emperor Taisho | |
| Issue | Hirohito, Yasuhito, Nobuhito, Takahito | |
| Father | Michitaka Kujo | |
Empress Sadako or Empress Teimei (九条節子 Kujō no miya Sadako?); (25 June 1884 - 17 May 1951). She was Empress of Japan, the consort of Emperor Taishō and the mother of Emperor Hirohito. Her posthumous name was Empress Teimei (貞明皇后 Teimei Kōgō?) Teimei means "enlightened constancy".
Princess Kujo Sadako was born in Tokyo, as the daughter of Prince Kujo Michitaka, head of Kujo branch of the Fujiwara clan. She married then-Crown Prince Yoshihito on 25 May 1900.
When she gave birth to a son, the future Emperor Hirohito in 1901, she was the first official wife of a Crown Prince or Emperor to do so since 1750. She became Empress (Empress Sadako, Sadako Kōgō) when her husband ascended to the throne in 1912. Given her husband's weak physical and mental condition, she exerted a strong influence on imperial life, and was an active patron of Japan's Red Cross Society.
As Dowager Empress, she openly objected to Japan's involvement in World War II, which caused conflict with her son. She died at Omiya Palace in Tokyo, aged 66, and was buried next to her husband, Emperor Taishō, at the Musashino Imperial Mausoleum in Tokyo.
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Empress Sadako in formal robes, 1912 |
Empress Sadako with Hirohito & Prince of Wales in 1922.jpg |
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[edit] References
- Bix, Herbert B. Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan. Harper Perennial (2001). ISBN: 0060931302
- Fujitani,T. Splendid Monarchy: Power and Pageantry in Modern Japan. University of California Press; Reprint edition (1998). ISBN: 0520213718
- Hoyt, Edwin P. Hirohito: The Emperor and the Man. Praeger Publishers (1992). ISBN: 0275940691ko:사다코
