one BIG happy family

[Bungo]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Japan/story/0 ... 01,00.html

 

 

" They subscribe to the ancient myth that holds that Japan's emperors are the direct descendants of the sun goddess Amaterasu Omikami, and that the current monarch is the latest in an unbroken line of 125 emperors stretching back more than 2,600 years to Jimmu in the seventh century BC.

 

Although the wartime emperor, Hirohito, renounced his divine status after Japan's defeat in 1945, ultra-nationalists regard his son, the current emperor, Akihito, as a living god, and have issued death threats to archaeologists involved in previous attempts to gain access to the tombs.

 

Their greatest fear is that proper inspections of the tombs will reveal compelling evidence that the Japanese imperial family originated from China and the Korean peninsula.

 

Akihito alluded to his Korean ancestry on his 68th birthday in 2001. In remarks that were ignored or played down by most of the domestic media, he said: "I for my part, feel a certain kinship with Korea, given the fact that it is recorded in the Chronicles of Japan that the mother of Emperor Kammu was of the line of King Muryong of Paekche."

 

Kammu reigned from 781 to 806 AD while Muryong ruled the Paekche kingdom in Korea from 501 to 523 AD.

 

Earlier this month, the agency reprimanded a member of staff for removing a contentious entry about the imperial family's background on Wikipedia's Japanese-language site."

 

 

 

milt the ronin

[kusunokimasahige]

so..... the emperor Go-Daigo was ..........???????

 

i do not believe the Japanese myth of ancestry with the present day Imperial family...

 

they are neither Minamoto nor Taira descent, let alone descended from Amaterasu Oomikami...

 

Go-Daigo however, was!

 

KM

[Bungo]

" Excavation work will be prohibited and researchers will be permitted to enter only the tombs' fringes "

 

like you can look at the kitchen door but can't go inside....... :x

 

I can tell you what the fringes look like...... according to an old friend ( who shall remain unidentifed ) who was part of the occupying force in Japan after ww2 , there's not much there except a bunch of Haniwa figures among the bushes. No, he didn't take any.

 

milt the ronin