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TSUJI, Hirohito 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9625-6742
(2024)
宮家における家族概念の連続性と変遷:氏(ウヂ)継承と家(イエ)相続.
In: The 11th International Conference, 2024-09-02 - 2024-09-04, Bucharest University of Economic Studies.
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Abstract
Miyake is the branch families of the Imperial House of Japan and have been an essential element of the succession to the Chrysanthemum Throne. In Japanese history, there are three emperors from miyake. There are only three living princes in contemporary Japan, meaning that continuing and steady imperial succession might become difficult in the future. Currently, the Government of Japan is considering establishing a system of ‘female miyake’, or reinstating former miyake. In short, miyake has an important role in supporting the succession to the Chrysanthemum Throne and is also at the core of discussions on contemporary issues. Despite this, research into the history of the Imperial Family has so far focused solely on successive emperors, overlooking the existence of miyake. Although the Imperial Family has been made up of the Imperial House (main family) and miyake (branch families) since pre-modern times, the fact that a view of the branch families and the main family as if they were one and the same has not been questioned is due to both the lack of understanding of the four shinnōke system at the Imperial Court in Edo period and the modern European bias that the family is equal to the nuclear family. Using primary resources, including unpublished historiographies written in running style cursive characters known as kuzushi-ji, and anthropological methods, this paper clarifies the continuity and transition of the concept of family in the Imperial Family, focusing on the dual structure of inheritance of ie (household) and succession of uji (clan), which is also characteristic of traditional genealogy in Japan. The turning periods were the early modern and modern transition and the occupation by the US military.
| Item Type: | Conference or Workshop Item (Paper) |
|---|---|
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | japanese studies,arts and humanities(all),social sciences(all),general ,/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/1200 |
| Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Arts and Humanities > School of History |
| Depositing User: | LivePure Connector |
| Date Deposited: | 04 Sep 2024 09:35 |
| Last Modified: | 16 Dec 2024 01:14 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/96514 |
| DOI: | 10.13140/RG.2.2.33312.19202 |
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