Why have an emperor/empress at all? If we have to be anachronistic and preposterous, let's remember that the Japanese imperial family claims descent from the celestial sun goddess, Amaterasu, so let a woman be the new empress. I rest my case.
Your claim of a 1,500 year line of male succession is completely false, having had at least eight in the history of the Chrysanthemum throne. The last empress regnant of Japan was the Go-Sakuramachi Empress, who passed in 1771.
Please tell me why I should keep subscribing to such shoddy scholarship, because I certainly cannot see paying for it.
Why have an emperor/empress at all? If we have to be anachronistic and preposterous, let's remember that the Japanese imperial family claims descent from the celestial sun goddess, Amaterasu, so let a woman be the new empress. I rest my case.
I think I can guess which way you may have voted! 😁
Your claim of a 1,500 year line of male succession is completely false, having had at least eight in the history of the Chrysanthemum throne. The last empress regnant of Japan was the Go-Sakuramachi Empress, who passed in 1771.
Please tell me why I should keep subscribing to such shoddy scholarship, because I certainly cannot see paying for it.
All Empresses Regnant succeeded via the male line. That is the claim made, not that Japan has not had Empresses Regnant.