Masako Owada and Michiko, one is the talented proud daughter of heaven, the other is the pearl of the palm carefully guarded by wealthy businessmen, they should have had an incomparably brilliant life before marrying into the Japanese imperial family.
But marrying into the Japanese imperial family blocked their path to happiness, leaving them in a state of mental disorder and pain, and even their descendants could not escape the fate of being blamed and abused.
How scary is it to marry into the Japanese royal family?
Michiko and Masako Owada are a pair of mothers-in-law, they are both talented, but they also have mental problems after marriage.
Even Michiko publicly stated that there was no love between her and her husband and she was not worthy of being buried with the emperor.
What did she experience after marriage?
Michiko: I won a game, but I lost for a lifetime
Michiko, originally surnamed Shoda, was born in 1934. In the eyes of the Japanese imperial family, her origin is not "noble", after all, she has no "official" blood, just a woman from a wealthy merchant family.
In the first ten years of her life, Michiko's life was happy and beautiful, and she was held by her parents in the palm of her hand since she was a child, which not only gave her the best education, but also cultivated her artistic accomplishment, and almost every day she would listen to her mother play beautiful classical music with her siblings.
In school, Michiko's grades have always been among the best, and she will actively participate in the activities organized by the school, she is humble and courteous, and she is a vigorous girl.
But her fortunes were reversed by a tennis match.
In 1957, Michiko, who had just walked out of college, participated in a tennis tournament, and coincidentally, Crown Prince Akihito also entered the arena.
Under the arrangement of fate, Michiko and the crown prince were divided into the same formation as opponents. The rules of the competition are elimination, the winning side can participate in the next round, facing a little girl, the crown prince did not pay attention at first.
But in the subsequent matches, Michiko showed extraordinary confidence and tenacity, and eliminated Prince Naruhito when almost no one was optimistic.
For the crown prince, this fight lost not only the ball, but also his heart, and the crown prince was deeply attracted to this beautiful and extraordinary temperament.
At that time, Prince Naruhito was 18 years old, and he was also at the age of choosing a concubine, and according to the rules of the time, concubines were to be selected from among the daughters of the old imperial family and old courtiers.
However, due to the gradual opening of ideas and the decline of the royal system, the marriageable girls who were promoted were really few and pitiful, and among the few concubine candidates, Akihito did not fancy one.
But on that day, on the romantic tennis court, Akihito's young man's heart was deeply attracted to Michiko. Since then, he has embarked on a passionate and unshirkable pursuit of this extraordinary girl.
In fact, we can see that Michiko and Akihito did have love at the beginning. Under the crazy offensive of the prince, Michiko's heart also fell.
The relationship between the two was blocked from the beginning, because Michiko was from a "commoner" background, and the conservative faction strongly opposed the marriage, until Akihito's father came forward and said a very domineering sentence: "As long as the son likes it, the civilian does not matter." (In fact, they can't choose other suitable candidates at all.)
In 1959, amid the criticism, the two stepped into the palace of marriage with one foot, but stepped into the grave of marriage with the other.
The "marriage grave" belonging to Michiko
Why is it called a grave? Because even with sufficient psychological preparation, Michiko's married life still makes her miserable.
And the one who brought her the greatest misfortune was the mother-in-law who was born into a royal family.
From the moment Michiko entered the door, her mother-in-law was very disdainful of her. It is rumored that she always tries to find Michiko's faults, and Michiko must not only be exposed to the public's eyes all the time from her words and deeds to her life, but also subject to the scrutiny of her mother-in-law anytime and anywhere.
The pressure from all sides was like mountain after mountain, pressing on Michiko's body, gradually devouring her happiness, crushing her spirit, and causing her to fall into a serious spiritual crisis. For a while, she didn't communicate with anyone except her husband, and after the doctor's diagnosis she was suffering from "aphasia".
Her mental condition did not improve until the death of her mother-in-law, but even under such pressure, this stubborn girl made some changes to the system of the royal family.
With her husband's support, she broke the long-standing system of the Japanese imperial family (children must be raised by nursing mothers until they were ten years old) and kept the children with their side.
In social activities, Michiko is always elegant and steady when she accompanies her husband, which has been praised by many people.
Although we can't see on the surface how much pain Mino Zi has endured, through the words she said in her later years, we can still feel the pain and sadness in her heart.
She put it this way: "There is no love between me and the emperor, and a commoner is not worthy of being buried with the emperor."
We don't know if Michiko fought in her marriage, but it's clear that her struggle didn't end well.
And Michiko's tragedy did not end with her, and the next commoner girl who married into the imperial family, Masako Owada, became the public's "unexpected".
Masako Owada: Your love at first sight, my life is unfortunate
Masako Owada is the wife of Naruhito, Michiko's eldest son, and she already had a high reputation before she knew Naruhito.
Masako was born into a family of diplomats whose ancestors were "politicians" and businessmen, and as a child, she lived in Moscow, and later in New York, JD.com, and Boston.
Masako has an innate nobility and self-confidence, and even received praise from her middle school teachers.
The talented Ya Gong had a good piano hand and excellent grades, not only obtained a degree in economics from Harvard University in the United States, but also went to the University of Tokyo for further study in law, hoping to become a good diplomat like his father.
At that time, female diplomats were very rare, but even if it was very difficult, Masako Owada completed the diplomat exam very well.
After the exam, she was placed with the Foreign Minister as an interpreter (it is worth mentioning that the Foreign Minister at that time was Shinzo Abe's father). Such excellent women are rare, and even newspapers have a board dedicated to Masako's deeds.
But at a concert at her 23-year-old, Masako met the man who changed her life, 26-year-old Crown Prince Naruhito.
Naruhito, an Oxford graduate, also received a good education, he enjoyed playing the violin, climbing mountains, playing tennis, and was deeply influenced by Western culture.
That year, Naruhito was 26 years old, which was definitely not a young age for the Japanese royal family, and people could not help but worry about the marriage of the crown prince.
In melodious music, Naruhito bumps into Masako and "falls in love at first sight" with her.
Like his father, the crown prince is also infatuated with his beloved girl, even if he is strongly opposed, he will not hesitate.
Soon after, under Naruhito's ingenious arrangement, he met Masako again and began to show admiration for Masako.
This relationship is a constraint for Masako, who has lofty ideals and does not accept the feelings of the prince gladly like Michiko, and is even more unwilling to bind herself to a cage-like royal marriage.
But unscrupulous media and public opinion don't care if you like it or not, during that time, Masako would be surrounded by the media whenever she went out, and the newspapers were full of her photos.
In order to get rid of this situation, Masako made a public speech explicitly rejecting Naruhito's marriage proposal, but to no avail. In the end, wanting to completely cut off the connection with Naruhito, she went to Oxford University to continue her studies with the support of her father.
But after meeting Masako, Naruhito's marriage has been put on hold, and even if the Japanese imperial family carefully selected nearly 200 excellent women for him, none of them could get his favor.
This one, single to 32 years old. When asked why Naruhito delayed getting married, he replied, "I know Masako is still single."
However, "the crown prince is not in a hurry, the eunuch is in a hurry" Naruhito has been single and has put a lot of pressure on the Uchiya Agency (the body that assists the emperor in handling affairs), and it is said that they personally approached Masako's father to lure his daughter back to Japan as Japan's representative to the United Nations.
It is worth mentioning that Masako Owada's father eventually served as Japan's representative to the United Nations.
However, we do not know whether the reason why his father was able to serve as Japan's representative to the United Nations is related to the Uchiya Agency.
But what we do know is that in 1992, Masako finally returned to Japan and agreed to Rentoku's marriage proposal... At that time, Rende promised his wife that he would "protect her happiness with all his life."
It is said that Masako once had a fiancé in England, but inexplicably died.
In 1993, the two held a grand wedding, and their wedding also drew cheers from Japanese feminists, some who thought that their union may be a sign of "hope" for Japanese working women.
But things backfired, all the fierce behavior before Masako's marriage seemed to disappear after the wedding, and what people saw was an extremely well-behaved and obedient Masako, and the fertility pressure after marriage overwhelmed this excellent woman.
If you can't give birth to a son, you are waste
After marriage, Masako was taken away from personal phone calls, restricted contact with the outside world (friends and parents), and she only met her parents five times in the three years of marriage, and even restricted her from going out in order to give birth to royal blood as soon as possible.
But Masako was unable to get pregnant, and in 1999, a miscarriage made her fall into the valley, and finally in 2001, at the age of 38, Masako became pregnant again and gave birth to her beloved daughter, Princess Aiko.
At the press conference, Masako couldn't hide her excitement and happiness. But Masako, who failed to give birth to a son, was again under pressure, and under the accusations of both open and covert, Masako's spirit became worse and worse, and eventually suffered from severe depression and adjustment disorders.
Masako's parents, who were worried about their daughter, took Masako and Aiko out to cultivate and take care of them in the family villa, which slowly eased Masako's physical condition.
For some time afterwards, the royal family, which had no male heir, was caught up in a struggle with whether to "allow women to inherit the throne", and it was not until the birth of Naruhito's younger brother Akihito's younger son Yuhito, which eased the situation.
Now Xiao Youren is also almost at the age of choosing a concubine, and I don't know if Youren's wife will also face such a situation.
Some netizens said that the Japanese royal family likes to marry those excellent and shining women home and turn them into ordinary "vases" and "talking wombs".
Some netizens also said that they really don't know what good genes the Japanese royal family has to inherit, whether it is their per capita height of 160 or the brain door.
Do you think it is necessary to pass on the throne in Japan? Welcome to leave a message in the comment area to discuss~
Author: Shira Koshichi School: Kawakawa
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