Princess Aiko, the only daughter of the Japanese Emperor and his wife, is almost 20 years old.
As is customary, on the day of the 20th year of coming of age, the princess will not only be awarded a medal, but also have a new crown for her. In the future, as adult female members of the royal family, they will wear formal dress and crowns on official occasions in the performance of official duties.
Two cousins of Aiko's uncle's family: Mako and Kaneko.
The crown of Mako's 20-year-old coming-of-age ceremony was made by the imperial family's "Ginza and Hikari" and is worth 28.57 million yen.
Her sister Jiazi took a fancy to the style, set a royal precedent, and opened the audition design plan. In the end, she chose the crown designed by "mikimoto" and was worth 28.93 million yen.
Although they are all called princesses, they have different levels.
Like the princess of the Takashiro-miya family, her grandfather was a brother of Emperor Showa, and from that generation onwards, he was a side branch. The crown at the age of 20 was only 15.22 million yen according to the specifications.
In the group of princesses in the imperial family, in fact, only the emperor's daughter Aiko is a princess in the true sense, and the others can only be regarded as "county lords". According to the strict rules of the Japanese imperial family, Aiko's 20-year-old coming-of-age ceremony should be of a higher rank than all "princesses".
At first, due to a series of ceremonies such as Akihito's abdication and Naruhito's ascension to the throne, it cost a lot of money. Coupled with naruhito's younger brother Wenren becoming the imperial heir, the living budget of the Wenren family was suddenly adjusted from the original 30.5 million a year to 91.5 million a year.
In order to save money, naruhito and his wife took the initiative to ask for Aiko's crown budget to be controlled at 30 million. It is also a specification with the princess of the prince's family.
In April this year, it was decided not to order a new crown. Because of the new crown epidemic and the tight national treasury, it is difficult to allocate a budget to Aiko to order a crown at this time.
Not customizing a new one means borrowing other old crowns for the rite of passage. The queen level cannot be used, the princess crown with a large disparity in position cannot be used, and there are few options that Aiko can borrow. In fact, it is also the use of Makoto and Jiazi, the two cousins, and the aunt Kiyoko.
On November 16, the crown that had been hanging for more than half a year finally came to a conclusion. On December 5, on the day of Aiko's 20-year-old coming-of-age ceremony, she will borrow the old crown of her aunt Kiyoko.
As the only daughter of the old emperor and his wife, Kiyoko is also the oldest of the three brothers and sisters, and is deeply loved by her parents.
The old emperor's family portrait
Akihito (father), Fumihito (second brother), Kiyoko, Naruhito (eldest brother), Michiko (mother)
Michiko was the first commoner to marry into the Japanese imperial family, and the biggest reform she made in the Fumiya compound was to raise her children herself. Therefore, the relationship between the three brothers and sisters of Naruhito, Bunjin, and Kiyoko, as well as with their parents, is more intimate than that of their royal fathers.
Kiyoko's 20-year-old coming-of-age ceremony crown should, as is customary, be customized by the treasury appropriations. However, because it was the treasury that allocated money, the ultimate ownership of the crown was not the princess. When a princess gets married and leaves the imperial family, she must return the crown and cannot be taken away as private property.
So Akihito and his wife decided to use their private money to customize a crown for their daughter. Therefore, after Kiyoko gets married, Crown can go with her to her in-laws' house.
This time, the aunt lent her private crown to her niece Aiko, which also relieved many people who were concerned about the contradictions within the royal family. It shows that Kiyoko's relationship with her brother Naruhito's family is much better than imagined.
At that time, Naruhito's three brothers and sisters were personally raised by their mother Michiko, but Naruhito, as the eldest grandson, was going to ascend the throne in the future, so he was the only one who had to receive "imperial education" from the beginning of school.
Wenren and his sister grew up in a relatively free atmosphere, with a closer relationship with their mother and better brother-sister relationships.
Kiyoko's husband was introduced to her by Fumihito, and dates were mostly chosen in Fumihito's palace. After marriage, the childless Kiyoko couple have always loved the two daughters of the Wenren family, Mako and Jiazi.
Ayako eats a table at her wedding, and Kiyoko is next to her niece Mako. At that time, the scandal of the mother and son of the small room had made Makoko very embarrassed, and at that time, she caught up with the same age and found a good son-in-law who was praised by everyone. The feelings of the aunt and nephew are really speechless.
In contrast, the current Emperor Naruhito has been somewhat isolated since he was crown prince. Her mother, Michiko, favored her second son, and her second daughter-in-law. Coupled with the fact that Naruhito and Masako had not had children for many years after their marriage, this eccentricity was even more obvious.
The second son, Wenren and his wife, have become more and more arrogant since they successfully pursued their son and gave birth to the only male of the royal family.
When Naruhito ascended the throne, a ceremony of the corresponding specifications was required. Younger brother Wenren used his "straightforward personality" to publicly criticize some ceremonies as extravagant and wasteful, and too much to spend on the taxes of the common people. He also pronounced the next sentence "身の丈に合った儀式にすれば", which translates to Chinese is: how big the head wears how big a hat.
Fumihito and his daughter Mako attend the enthronement ceremony
Mr. and Mrs. Kiyoko attended the enthronement ceremony
Naruhito tried to pay attention to the reduction, turning around and turning to Wenren himself, he became the "imperial heir" because of his status, and the living budget of a family of four also rose to 100 million a year. Even so, Princess Noriko complained that there were not enough bodyguards, that the car grade was not enough, and that her son was the future emperor.
Then came the more wasteful thing. The mansion where the Fumihito family lived had to be repaired and renovated, and that was also necessary, adding up to a budget of 3.3 billion yen! In addition, the cost of temporary accommodation during the maintenance period is as high as 1 billion yen.
This is the same as Wen Ren's previous criticism of his brother's enthronement ceremony, which cost too much money, how big a head to wear, how big a hat to wear, and sentenced the two of them. It was almost punching yourself in the face.
On the one hand, the budget is not enough to order a crown for Princess Aizi to make a new year's gift, and on the other hand, the Wenren family spends a huge amount of money endlessly. A family of four spent money indiscriminately, catching up with a son-in-law like Komuro Kei, who had not yet officially married, and the mother and son of Komuro also consumed a huge amount of tax every day.
When the villagers saw such a direct contrast, they hated the small room even more, hated the Wenren family even more, and respected the Deren family even more.
Princess Aiko will borrow her aunt's crown
The matter of Princess Aiko's crown eventually became a reason for the villagers to scold the Wenren family. The small room of the horse master is also a "god man", don't be sent by God to drag down his father-in-law's family.
Folk comments
● It is a pity that I was not able to customize a new crown for His Highness Aiko. However, the adjustment of communication is good, and it is also excellent to be able to wear Ms. Kuroda Kiyoko. Sincerely advise.
● It is also too unreasonable to invest so much tax on the Komuro couple alone, but they cannot allocate the crown budget of His Highness Aiko.
● I think this is the result of the two highnesses of the emperor and the empress after taking into account the situation in the world. Thank you for being close to the people and valuing the people.
● Since there is money allocated to the non-royal people in the collateral family (small room couple) to use, how can they think of a budget. What did you think of the authentic princess?
● Spending money on that couple (Komuro, Mako) is too unreasonable. If it is for the crown of His Highness the Beloved Son, there is no problem, and the common people can understand and accept it. And instead hope to customize one for the princess.
● The relatives of the family, they spend the tax everywhere as if it were their own. Many criticisms and doubts were directed at the [Wenren] family. He still has the same affection for the Emperor's family.
●Somehow, I am full of apologies for Princess Aiko.
● I hope that after the situation has stabilized, I can customize a very good crown for Her Highness Aiko.