Cloistered Emperor
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Daijō Hōō or Daijō Hō (both accepted readings of 太上法皇), sometimes Cloistered Emperor in English was a Japanese Emperor (Tennō) who abdicated and entered the Buddhist monastic community by receiving the Pravrajya rite. It is also shortened as Hōō (法皇).
Cloistered emperors sometimes acted as Daijō Tennō (retired emperors), therefore maintaining effective power.
Famous emperors who adopted cloistered rule:
- Emperor Shirakawa (1053-1129, r. 1073-1087 and cloistered rule 1087-1129)
- Emperor Toba (1103-1156, r. 1107-1123 and cloistered rule 1129-1156)
- Emperor Go-Shirakawa (1127-1192, r. 1155-1158 and cloistered rule 1158-1192)
The last cloistered emperor was Emperor Reigen, in the Edo period.
Go-Hanazono abdicated on Kansho 5, 7, 19 (1464), but no long afterwards, Onin no ran broke out, and there were no further abdications until Tensho 14, 11, 7 (1586), when Ogimachi gave over the reigns of government to his grandson GoYozei. This was due to the disturbed state of the country; and the fact that there was neither a house for an ex-emperor nor money to support him or it.[1]
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[edit] Notes
- ^ Ponsonby-Fane, pp. 340-341.
[edit] Further reading
- Ponsonby-Fane, Richard A. B. (1956). Kyoto: The Old Capital of Japan, 794-1869. Kyoto: The Ponsonby Memorial Society.
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