wife of Emperor Taisho (1879-1926). Poetry is one of the arts most closely linked to all members of the Japanese imperial family. Hisahito himself will have to recite a poem during the coronation ...

Installed as Crown Prince at the age of fifteen, Hirohito assumed the "Chrysanthemum Throne" in 1926 with the death of his father, the Emperor Yoshihito (now known as the Taisho Emperor ...

Emperor Taisho tried riding a horse at the Aoyama Imperial Palace after he turned 8. Emperor Showa rode a pony in Numazu, Shizuoka Prefecture, when he was 10. He is believed to have later refined ...