Tsuki_no_wa_no_misasagi Knowpia

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, which was the hereditary temple or bodaiji (菩提寺) of the Imperial Family.^[1]^[2]

Notable interments edit

Kamakura period edit

86 Emperor Go-Horikawa^[3]^[4]
87 Emperor Shijō^[3]

Edo period edit

The mausoleum of Emperor Go-Mizunoo at Tsuki no wa no misasagi, Sennyū-ji, Higashiyama-ku, Kyoto.

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]

Two other Edo Period emperors are also enshrined at Nochi no tsukinowa no misasagi (後月輪陵) and the last Edo Period emperor is enshrined at Nochi no tsuki no wa no Higashiyama no misasagi (後月輪東山陵) in form of kofun.^[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]

Notes edit

^ Ponsonby-Fane 1956, p. 113.
^ Hall 1988, p. 383.
^ ^a ^b Ponsonby-Fane 1959, p. 422.
^ "Sennyu-ji Temple, Kyoto". www.taleofgenji.org.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ ^o Ponsonby-Fane 1959, p. 423.
^ Ponsonby-Fane 1959, p. 424.
^ Ponsonby-Fane 1959, pp. 333–334.
^ Ponsonby-Fane 1959, p. 335.

References edit

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.