In the history of Japan, Emperor Takelie was the 25th emperor of Japan and the last of the descendants of Emperor Nintoku. He ascended the throne at the age of 9 and married his own mother, Kasuga Niangko, who was known for his cruelty and immorality, and died at the age of 18 without leaving any heirs.
Emperor Takere's life is full of legends and controversies, and he is also one of the most mysterious emperors in Japanese history, so what kind of story does he have?
Emperor Takelie of Japan
In 489 AD, the 25th emperor in Japanese history, Emperor Takere, was born, and was the last remaining "only son" of Emperor Ninken.
There is also a legend about the birth of Emperor Takere, in ancient times, the Japanese imperial family in order to ensure the purity of blood, has always advocated the marriage of close relatives, and later Emperor Ninken married his sister Kasuga Lady as his wife, that is to say, Emperor Takelie is the nephew and son of Emperor Ninken.
There is a theory that Emperor Ningen's wife could not have children, so he had to have sex with his sister in order to continue the imperial bloodline.
Another theory is that Emperor Ninken and the Kasuga Lady had a relationship that surpassed that of brother and sister, and secretly intersected in private and gave birth to Emperor Takere, either of which shows that the relationship between Emperor Ninken and the Kasuga Lady was not legitimate.
Under the verification of modern science, the marriage of close relatives is very harmful and is not accepted by people, so this matter directly led to Emperor Renken's lack of prosperity, even if most of the surviving children have health problems.
As soon as you enter the palace gate, it is as deep as the sea, and the children of the Japanese royal family fight to the death for the throne, which is more cruel than the nine sons of the Kangxi period.
The birth of Emperor Takelie undoubtedly threatened the interests of the other imperial families, and Emperor Ninken's younger brothers were also hostile and jealous of him, and even wanted to get rid of him and seize the throne.
In order to protect his son, Emperor Ninken ordered the killing of his younger brother and his family, causing a bloody massacre. Emperor Ninken died in December of the tenth year of the year, and at this time Emperor Takelie was only 9 years old, and there was not even a normal man in the family.
How can we describe this incident? The prince who was qualified to inherit the throne died early, and the other princes of the imperial family were also killed, and after a palace struggle, only a nine-year-old Emperor Takelie remained.
In this way, he succeeded his father and became one of the youngest emperors in Japanese history. Generally, it is difficult for a young lord like this to succeed to the throne to make great achievements, and even because of lack of education, he will do many things that go against human ethics and hurt nature, and Emperor Wulie is one of the best.
Tyranny and immorality
During his reign, Emperor Takeru was known for his brutality and debauchery by brutally abusing and torturing his subjects and his wives and concubines. There is a book in Japan called "Nihon Shoki", and the content of this book compares and even surpasses Emperor Takelie and the mainland.
In "The Romance of the Gods", King Su once made a bet with Su Daji that the child in the pregnant woman's womb was a boy or a girl, and finally killed the pregnant woman alive and ordered the pregnant woman's belly to be dissected, which Emperor Wulie once did, and this was just one of his atrocities.
When he was a teenager, Emperor Takelie fell in love with a girl and wanted to take her as a concubine, but after the woman refused, he killed her people, and it was hard to imagine what a teenager could do.
He also forced women to sit on wooden planks to mate with horses, and then sat and watched themselves, which was simply unethical and immoral.
Afterwards, he would also send someone to observe the plank, and if there were physical traces, he would kill the woman, and if not, he would be accepted as a palace maid, and such a woman was a chaste martyr.
At the same time, Emperor Takelie also married his mother-in-law, Kasuga Niangzi. Kasuga Niangzi is the wife of Emperor Ninken, and she is also the mother of Emperor Takery, and even changed "Eldest Lady" to "Lady" in order to cover up this fact.
There is a theory that he had had abnormal feelings for Kasuga Niangzi since he was a child, so he forcibly accepted Kasuga Niangzi as his wife after inheriting the throne, ignoring the opposition and resistance of the other party.
Another theory is biased towards political interests, and Emperor Takelie married Kasuga Musuko to consolidate his position, after all, he was still very young at that time, and Kasuga Musuko was a good assistant.
Overall, Emperor Takere's reign was brutal, with a vivid interpretation of the words "mediocrity" and "perversion", and his atrocities caused fear and hatred, as well as chaos and crisis in Japanese society.
He died suddenly at the age of 18
As the saying goes, "Heaven can do evil, but self-inflicted evil cannot live", Emperor Takeryu, who had been in power for nine years, died suddenly at the age of 18, leaving no heirs.
There are many theories about the cause of his death, some believe that Emperor Takeretsu's atrocities caused the curse, some believe that his wife or concubine or subordinates assassinated him, and others believe that he suffered from some kind of disease or poisoning.
According to the Nihon Shoki, Emperor Takelie had a dream before his death that he was entangled in a large snake and could not breathe, and when he woke up, he felt pain in his chest and had difficulty breathing, and died soon after.
Later, the dream was deciphered, saying that the gods were warning Emperor Takerei, and that the snake represented the wrath of the gods, and that the emperor died because he had violated the will of the gods and defiled the dignity of the imperial family.
In the "assassination theory", some people suspected that Emperor Takelie was killed by his wife or concubine or his subordinates, and that his ruthless rule made many people dissatisfied with his atrocities, so they took the opportunity to poison him.
After the death of Emperor Takere, his wives and concubines and his subordinates did not show grief and mourning, but cheered to celebrate the emperor's death, which is a good illustration of the subtlety.
Regardless of how Emperor Takelie died, after his death, because there was no legal heir to the imperial family, the throne could only be handed over to the imperial family side successor Emperor to inherit, which ended the rule of Emperor Nintoku and opened a new era in Japan.
Emperor Jite, the great-grandson of Emperor Nintoku and a distant relative of Emperor Takere, soon restored order to Japan's former state by reforming politics and quelling disputes.
How to describe Emperor Takere? Overall, he was one of the most mysterious emperors in Japanese history, and his life was full of legends and controversies, and even the cause of his death was a mystery.
He ascended to the throne at the age of 9 and married his own mother, Kasuga Niangko, who was known for his cruelty and immorality, and died at the age of 18 without leaving any heirs, which led to constant strife within the Japanese imperial family, and of course the beginning of another era in Japan.
Today, many years after the death of Emperor Takere, his life remains one of the darkest pages in ancient Japanese history. What do you think differently about this?