Ruins are the buildings which remained miraculously, after an atomic bomb is dropped in Hiroshima. It is called "A-bomb memorial dome." Now, it is specified to be world heritage.
In Peace Memorial Park, Hiroshima in 1995
In Hiroshima, 1995
In Peace Memorial Park, Nagasaki in 1995
The Emperor and The Empress who presents flowers to an atomic bomb deceased cenotaph.
In Iwo-jima, Okinawa in 1994
In the hill of repose of souls
In Itoman, Okinawa in 1995
In The Himeyuri Monument, Okinawa in 1993
They were thrown the hand grenade by the male of the anti-Imperial system in the 1970s, when they present flowers to Himeyuri Monument.
In The Imperial Palace with the former Kim Dae-jung South Korean country President
with the South Korean country President in 2003
In Nagano Winter Olympic Games opening ceremony. The Emperor who declares session as the creditable President in 1998.
The Empress who visits the victims of the Great Hanshin Earthquake in
Kobe, 1995
The Emperor who talks for a disaster victim in Kobe, 1995
The Empress who offers flowers in the bouquet of the narcissus which was in bloom in the garden of the Imperial Palace. This place is named "The street of the narcissus" now. The bouquet was sculptured in the plate and it is decorating at this passage.
The Empress who gives a tight hug and encourages disaster victims' woman.
The Empress who encourages disaster victims by sign language out of a bus in Kobe, 1995.
The Emperor and The Empress who visits the stricken area of the eruption of Unzen Mt. Fugen in 1991.
The Emperor and The Empress who visits the stricken area of the eruption of Unzen Mt. Fugen in 1991.
The Emperor and The Empress who talks for disaster victims in a shelter in 1991.
From the Glittering Royals Message Board: Mexican President Vincente Fox (L) is escorted by Emperor Akihito of Japan at a welcoming ceremony, at Akasaka state guesthouse in Tokyo, October 15, 2003. Fox flew to Tokyo Wednesday morning for a four-day visit before continuing on to Thailand for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation meetings.
Glittering Royals Message Board: Mexican President Vicente Fox (2nd L), speaks with Japan's Emperor Akihito (L), while first lady Martha Sahagun de Fox (2nd R) talks with Empress Michiko during their audience at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo October 15, 2003.
Glittering Royals Message Board: Mexican President Vicente Fox (L) and first lady Martha Sahagun de Fox (3rd L) are escorted by Japan's Emperor Akihito (2nd L) and Empress Michiko at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo October 15, 2003.
Glittering Royals Message Board: Mexican President Vicente Fox (2nd-L) first lady Marta Sahagun (2ndL) are greeted by Japanese Emperor Akihito (2ndR) and Empress Michiko at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo for a state dinner October 15, 2003.
Glittering Royals Message Board: Mexican President Vicente Fox (2nd-L) first lady Marta Sahagun (2ndL) are greeted by Japanese Emperor Akihito (2ndR) and Empress Michiko at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo for a state dinner October 15, 2003.
Glittering Royals Message Board: Mexican President Vicente Fox (L) and Japan's Emperor Akihito toast during a state banquet held at the Imperial Palace.
Glittering Royals Message Board: Mexican President Vicente Fox (L) listens to Japan's Emperor Akihito during a state banquet.
Glittering Royals Message Board: Mexican President Vicente Fox, left, greets Empress Michiko, right, as first lady Marta Sahagun, 2nd from left, shakes hands with Emperor Akihito prior to a welcoming ceremony at the Akasaka Palace state guest house in Tokyo Wednesday, Oct. 15, 2003. Fox is on a four-day state visit during which he is expected to have free-trade talks with Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi.
Glittering Royals Message Board: Mexican President Vicente Fox (2nd, L) stands at attention with Emperor Akihito (2nd, R) of Japan as they are flanked by their wives, Martha Sahagun de Fox (L) and Empress Michiko during the playing of their national anthems during a welcoming ceremony at Akasaka State Guesthouse in Tokyo October 15, 2003. Fox flew in to Tokyo this morning for a four-day visit before continuing on to Thailand for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation meetings.
Glittering Royals Message Board: Mexican President Vicente Fox (L) is escorted by Emperor Akihito of Japan at a welcoming ceremony at Akasaka state guesthouse in Tokyo October 15, 2003.
Glittering Royals Message Board: Mexican President Vicente Fox (L) is escorted by Emperor Akihito of Japan at a welcoming ceremony at Akasaka state guesthouse in Tokyo October 15, 2003.
Thank you for posting these pictures, Alexandria ! :flower:
These are not carried by the net in Japan. And these photographs are big. It is very small when carrying the Imperial Family's photograph in a net in Japan. I am glad to see their latest appearance with a big photograph.
Year-end Presentation of Five Waka Poems by His Majesty the Emperor 2002, Fourteenth year of Heisei
"At the Imperial Villa in Hayama
My two older
Granddaughters stay very close
To the little one,
Having eyes for her alone:
Their ways are so endearing. "
In Praha
" Seeing the full flow
Of Vltava's rich waters
And that very night
Hearing in Praha Castle
Smetana's music for it! "
(Note):
While on a visit to the Czech Republic, at the Cultural Evening sponsored by the President, "The Moldau", famous piece of music composed by Smetana, a native of that country, was played. Moldau is the German name for the Vltava river that flows through the center of Praha and that His Majesty viewed from the Karel Bridge and from the official guesthouse where He stayed.
Year-end Presentation of Three Waka Poems by Her Majesty the Empress 2002, Fourteenth Year of Heisei
In Early Summer
"Sweet the memory
Of that town where I would go
To seek moor-lilies
And saw them flower in the fields
Colored a pale moon yellow. "
(Note):
'That town' refers to Karuizawa where, in former days, Her Majesty often spent the Summer. Every year when the Summer is near, Her Majesty remembers vividly that in the fields where She would go in the evening to see the one-day-blooming lilies, hemerocallis (nocturnal), they were in flower, colored like the pale yellow moon.
Year-end Presentation of Five Waka Poems by His Majesty the Emperor 2001, Thirteenth year of Heisei
Accompanying the King and Queen of Norway
As a welcome for
The noble King of Norway
At Enoshima,
The trainee children gathered,
Maneuvering the yachtsails.
(Note):
His Majesty the King of Norway, in 1964 when he was still Crown Prince, participated in the yachting competition held at Enoshima, as a member of the Norwegian team to the Tokyo Olympic Games.
Year-end Presentation of Three Waka Poems by Her Majesty the Empress 2001, Thirteenth Year of Heisei
Poem 1
All unconsciously
Have I too not fired a shot? -
With Spring well along
On the plains of Bamian
The stone Buddhas are no more.
(March 2001)
Background:
With Spring well advanced on the plains of Bamian, the great stone statues are now seen no more. "If I take it that the destruction of the Buddha statues is a manifestation of the hatreds and intolerance lurking in the human heart, must it not be said that I too, all unaware, could have fired a shot?" Struck by such thoughts of awe and sorrow, Her Majesty composed this poem.
Reference:
In 1971 Her Majesty composed the following poem after going to Bamian in the company of His Majesty the Emperor during Their official visit to Afganistan. At that time, already the faces of the stone statues had been split off, but this time, the statues have been shot to pieces by the Taliban and utterly destroyed.
There at Bamian
Under a moon faintly red
The great stone Buddhas,
Their sacred faces shattered,
Are still awesomely standing.
Poem 2
My loving thoughts go
To the mother soon-to-be,
Housebound and waiting,
On this night when wild winds blow
The first cold blasts of Winter.
(November 2001)
Background:
In November this year, on a night when the first Winter stormwinds were blowing fiercely. Her Majesty's thoughts went out to the Crown Princess waiting for the day of giving birth.
Reference:
The Imperial baby arrived on the First of December.
Year-end Presentation of Five Waka Poems by His Majesty the Emperor 2000, Twelfth year of Heisei
On the Visit to Holland
"Having since our youth
Enjoyed united friendship,
Now with good memories
I come today to visit
The Queen of the Netherlands. "
Visiting Sweden
"When I visited
A home for the elderly,
There was among them
One who said in Japanese
“I once lived in your country” "
A mourning Visit to my mother
"The path that I have
Come and gone so many times,
I go now once more
In this late evening to see
My dear departed mother."
At Nasu
"I have come to look at
Asama-Fuuro* of
Kofukabori
Here where I know my father
Used to love to see them."
*Asama-Fuuro : Geranium soboliferum
Year-end Presentation of Three Waka Poems by Her Majesty the Empress 2000, Twelfth Year of Heisei
By the coffin of Empress Kojun (Empress Nagako)
"This is the last time
In this living world of ours
That I can see Her;
How lovely is Her countenance
In the barque to eternity"
A trail in the Grasses
"The little ones there
Thrusting through the long grasses
Leave a trail behind
Like the track wild creatures make―
So dear are they, so tender."
Note:
Her Majesty composed this poem after watching the little Princesses Mako and Kako at play in the garden of the Palace Residence. The trail they left behind as they romped through the tall grasses, reminded her of the track left by the wild creatures, and she was filled with loving tenderness for them, so small and vulnerable.
Year-end Presentation of Waka Poems by His Majesty the Emperor 1990,Two Year of Heisei
The Banquet after the Enthronement
I have spent
The evening hours at the banquet
Conversing with quests
Gathered here
From so many different lands.
The Daijosai
I call to mind
The memory of my father
Engaged in the rites of the Niinamesai(*1)
As I perform the ritual
Of the Daijosai.(*2)
(*1)
The Niinamesai is an annual rite, performed on 23rd November, in which The Emperor makes an offering of the newly harvested rice to the deities, expresses his gratitude to them for having protected the crops, and then partakes of the rice offering in communion with the deities.
(*2)
The first Niinamaesai performed by the newly enthroned emperor is called the Daijosai
Year-end Presentation of Waka Poems by Her Majesty the Empress 1990,Two Year of Heisei
In Memory of His Late Majesty Emperor Showa
I think of telling His Majesty
How the wagtails are playing
In the winter garden,
Then suddenly
Come to myself and grieve.
In Celebration of the Enthronement
The sky at the dawn
Of the era of His Majesty
Is tinged reddish-yellow(*4)
The colour of his princely robe
Familiar to me over long years.
(*4)
Reddish-yellow is the colour used exclusively for the robe of the Crown Prince. The Empress refers to this colour because it was familiar to Her Majesty for three decades while Her husband, The Emperor, was the Crown Prince.
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