Welcome to the [Trend Epic] channel, today let's take a look at the following content. On April 30, 2019, Emperor Akihito, the 125th Emperor of Japan, officially abdicated, and after his abdication, Akihito and his wife Michiko were known as "Emperor Shang" and "Empress Shang".
With the abdication of Emperor Akihito, the era belonging to Akihito and Michiko also came to an official end.
However, the story of Michiko is still circulating in folklore and is a legend.
Michiko was not only a former empress of Japan, but also the first commoner empress in Japanese history, setting a precedent for commoners to marry into the imperial family and breaking the convention that only nobles and royalty could become empresses.
Born on October 20, 1934, Michiko is 85 years old this year, and although she is a civilian, she is not an ordinary person. Michiko was born into a very wealthy family, her grandfather was a Nissin flour milling entrepreneur, her maternal grandfather was a director of the Central China Revitalization Council, and her father was a famous pre-war industrialist.
In addition to having money, Michiko's family also produced many cultural people, and her father had three brothers, one was the president of Osaka University, one was a professor of geology at the University of Tokyo, and the other was a professor at the Faculty of Medicine.
This is an elite family, and Michiko has also received an elite education since she was a child, ranking among the best in her studies, and is also the president of the student council.
Therefore, even if Michiko did not marry Akihito and married into the imperial family as the crown princess, she would have a very good future and still walk in high society.
Her relationship with Akihito comes from tennis, and the two participate in a tennis match together, where the youthful and energetic Michiko quickly attracts Akihito's attention, making Akihito fall in love at first sight.
Akihito soon launched an attack of love, pursuing Michiko, and under Akihito's sincerity, the two became lovers.
Akihito loves Michiko and wants to marry michiko home and make michiko his wife. At that time, Akihito's marriage also became a major event in the Japanese imperial family, according to tradition, the imperial family chose many noble girls, but Akihito did not like any of them, he liked Michiko, even if Michiko was a commoner, even if the marriage between the two was criticized by the traditionalists.
However, he still likes Michiko and still wants to marry Michiko home.
Fortunately, Akihito's father, Emperor Showa, was very supportive of Akihito, and with Emperor Showa's support, Akihito finally held a grand wedding ceremony with Michiko on April 10, 1959.
After the marriage, the two had a total of three children, the eldest son Naruhito, the second son Fumihito, and the daughter Kiyoko.
However, marrying into the royal family does not represent a fairy tale.
The royal family is all royalty, all are nobles, and even the handmaidens who serve the emperor are nobles. A commoner, married into the royal family, even if she has the love of the crown prince, she is not welcomed by the nobles.
Why would a nobleman serve a commoner?
As a result, Michiko, who married into the imperial family, was often unhappy, was harshly reprimanded by her mother-in-law, and even suffered from aphasia for a while.
Perhaps because of the misfortune and embarrassment suffered too much in the imperial family, Michiko said a few years ago that she did not want to be buried with Akihito after her death.
Although, at the time, her excuse was that she was "not eligible to be buried with the emperor who is revered as a god."
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