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Names of Japanese emperors and members of the royal family.

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Foreign Historical Knowledge, first published in Lv Chang,No. 1983 andNo. 65438+2.

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The Japanese emperor and his immediate family (the royal family) are collectively called the royal family. According to the "royal model", today's royal family includes not only the emperor and queen, but also the prince, the emperor's brother, their concubines and children. Members of the royal family have no names.

Before the Meiji Restoration in Japan 1868, ordinary people were not allowed to have surnames, and only aristocratic rulers took surnames, titles, official positions and titles as surnames. Because the emperor has always been regarded as a "god", neither the emperor nor the royal family has a surname. After the Meiji Restoration, the Japanese government implemented the household registration law. In order to register, fabricate household registration and allow civilians to have surnames. However, the emperor and the royal family, as "gods", have another "royal model", which is beyond the jurisdiction of the household registration law, so they still have no surnames.

The names of members of the royal family have a characteristic, that is, men carry the word "benevolence" and women carry the word "zi". For example, Emperor Meiji was named Mu Ren, Emperor Taishi Jiaren, Yu Yuren, Crown Prince Akihito (now Emperor Heisei-semi-idle), and the eldest grandson of Emperor Naruhito (now Crown Prince Naruhito-semi-idle); The emperor's daughter's name is Cheng Zi, He Zi, Monkey and Tortoise, and the emperor's granddaughter's name is Qing Zi. Ancient emperors had long names, some as many as ten words. It is said that from the 9th century Emperor Ren Ming (the 54th emperor), all names had two characters, while from the 56th emperor Qinghe, most of them had the word "benevolence". In the Meiji Emperor122nd generation, it was clearly stipulated in the Birthday Style of Emperor's Children that all princes had the word "benevolence" and all emperors and daughters had the word "zi".