There are a total of eight female emperors in Japanese history, of which the four female emperors in addition to Tuigu, Zhitong, Huangji, and Yuanming only took the throne after they were married (that is, married to their brothers or cousins), and the remaining four female emperors were unmarried for life. Think about it, this is also the normal need of people! Emperor Myeongsho was even more pitiful, she had entered the Tokugawa shogunate period at that time, the etiquette was very strict, as the niece of the three generations of general Tokugawa Iemitsu, she could not steal love and insult the family style, she abdicated at the time of the double decade, but had to end up in the name of "Emperor Shang", presumably her heart was also very wronged. There are also ancient princes who only had two ways to become adults: one is to become a palace and a temple, and not to marry for life; the other is to marry the royal family. If you marry a subordinate, it is regarded as a shameful thing. The class concept in ancient Japan was so strong?
If a certain political model is formed, then there must be someone manipulating, someone being a victim, and there is sacrifice to gain some reputation. The ruler himself does not sacrifice, if others are sacrificed, the reputation will be taken away by others, and the cornerstone of rule will be loosened, which is the terrible part of politics. Women within the ruling clique are not able to compete with men in some aspects, so they may become the object of sacrifice. In Japan, there is a traditional system of saiwang, which is generally filled by an imperial woman, and the religious requirement of saiwang is that he must not marry for life. The female emperor and the king are separated for the most part, and once merged into a single woman, it is inevitable that the appearance of glory and tragedy will be a lifetime. If a royal woman is married, she must renounce her royal status unless she is also married to a royal family. To give up royal status means to give up all the material and spiritual benefits of royalty. If you don't get married, you can't get married at all.
If the current Princess Aiko can inherit the throne, I don't know if she has the right to marry? Or do you want to give up the throne and royal status like in ancient times, like her aunt Qingzi, Jiangshan love can not be both? This question is actually very easy to answer, and the current Japanese imperial family must also abide by the law, the morality of the world. Presumably, it will be the same as the British royal family. In fact, I think the question is not why not to marry, but who dares to marry. Even if the female emperor abdicates, she will no longer be regarded as the prince of the inner circle, who dares to marry the original lord? It is said that Aiko may not inherit the throne, it is rumored that before Akishinogu gave birth to the crown prince, Japan actually advocated amending the law to allow the imperial family to adopt polygamy to continue the incense, and did not want to amend the constitution to allow women to succeed to the throne. The reason why the queen's marriage worked in the UK was because there were many royal families in Europe, and the royal family had equal status between the royal families, but this situation did not exist in Japan. Elizabeth II was born into the Windsor royal family, but after she married Prince Philip (originally a Greek and Danish prince), her descendants belonged to the Glücksburg royal family. I am afraid that the Japanese will not accept such a change of dynasty. It is also possible that the male lineage will lose the right to inherit because the female emperor gives birth to an heir. The fact that an imperial daughter married her subordinates was not a "disgrace", but because it would lead to the birth of offspring who were not of pure royal blood, that is, of pure Amaterasu's bloodline.
By the end of World War II, there were very few examples of Japanese imperial daughters marrying, and the most famous was probably Watsum. The marriage of close relatives of the royal family is mainly to maintain the purity of the bloodline, and this is also the case in ancient Egypt, and there are even many brothers and sisters, sisters and brothers who marry and have children. There are also examples of using the blood of the Imperial Daughter to "strengthen" the legitimacy of the collateral. Female emperors marry, in addition to the blood is difficult to maintain purity, husbands may also interfere in political affairs, the traditional concept of male domination, even female emperors, will also rely on and trust their husbands, make decisions that are not conducive to the development of the country. The crown prince does not seem to want his daughter to be a female emperor, the Wenren family is active for the throne, giving birth to three daughters and finally coming to the son, but this is also a temporary solution to the inheritance problem, who knows if Youren can grow up safely, but also survive until the uncle and father hang up, the Heavenly Emperor and the samurai family have similar problems. Concubines are to inherit the family business, and concubines will generally pass on to other families, if not, then most of them will leave the family. Otherwise, you have to get a separation of the family, if it is not in the ascending period, too many branches may weaken the power of the family. And the woman? Either marry out, or if you don't marry, send him to the Monastery as a nun. It seems very difficult for the Heavenly Emperor to marry out, so there are more nuns.
Not only the Heavenly Royal Family, but also the General's family actually had similar troubles. Many women from the general's family also went to work as nuns. Aristocratic women with high status do not want to marry because they have ideological baggage and are afraid of insulting their status. In the patriarchal society, the female emperor is a special existence, and marrying down will damage the "dignity" of the royal family, if the female emperor can marry, then the male emperor can be added? The key question is whether to allow the existence of "imperial husbands". The answer is no, because the children of the female emperor also have the right to inherit, which undermines the inheritance rights of the male descendants of the original royal family. Despite this, there are still "lovers" in private, and everyone turns a blind eye, because your circle is already very chaotic, and there are many illegitimate children. It is worth noting that illegitimate children are not visible, let alone the right to inherit, even if the identity is exposed, the ancient law does not recognize their inheritance rights. The existence of the female emperor itself is the result of a relatively long period of excessive power in order to seek stability. The special case is that when the male heir is broken, the son-in-law enters the throne and inherits the throne as a half-son, which is directly skipping the female emperor and the husband of the imperial daughter inherits the throne. In fact, in the ancient and modern history of the entire East Asian society, from the royal family to the commoners, the example of son-in-law entering the family is very common, of course, the son-in-law is from the woman's surname. Examples of ancient Japan are the legendary successor emperor and the Nara-era Emperor Mitsuhito. The successor emperor is very old, and it is not certain whether there is a successor emperor, but Emperor Mitsuhito is indeed clearly recorded in the "Continuation of the Japanese Chronicle".
Contrary to the difficulty of marrying Japanese imperial daughters, the princesses of the Ming Dynasty in China are the most obvious manifestations of what is "marrying down" in them. Because of the harsh regulations, the horse cannot be selected from the children of the civil and military officials, and the second is that the children of the Shili family and the family are not willing to take the princess for the sake of the future of the family and the individual, so the horse can only be a man at the bottom of the society. As long as the nouveau riche of the people stuffs money to the host eunuch, they can be used as an alternative to the donkey, and who can be the donkey depends on who has more money, and has nothing to do with their own "quality". Of course, after all, you are a princess, in fact, the princess "married" the horse, because of various "respect and inferiority" regulations, the princess and the horse are usually difficult to blossom and bear fruit, the horse is actually the princess's nominal husband, only by marrying, the princess has her own independent princess house and the other court, if the princess is childless and dies first, all the princess's property will be taken back by the court, and the horse will be clean. From beginning to end, the princess's honor is only her own honor, not affected by any horse, in the princess house, the princess is the only hostess. This is the opposite of the situation of imperial daughters marrying in ancient Japan, the imperial daughters are no longer noble, or are they subject to the husband's family, the husband usually has other side rooms, how many men in the world are worthy of the imperial women to be so wronged by themselves? However, the imperial daughters do not marry and there are always people who are worried, so it is a good choice to become the king of Jai or go directly to the family, and they can also keep a part of their property to live their own lives without looking at people's faces.
Even now, the women of the Japanese imperial family are still largely stipulated to continue the old customs of the past, such as leaving the imperial family after marriage, Princess Masako cannot even have her own mobile phone and credit card, travel must be reported layer by layer, public occasions can only keep smiling, the length of speech can not exceed the crown prince, Princess Jiazi wears a vest suspender once in the summer and is accused by the imperial family... If the ancient female emperor could not get married, I think it is not surprising - -