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*''Born: [[1879]]''
*''Died: 1926''
*''Other Names'': 義仁 ''(Yoshihito)''
*''Japanese'': 大正天皇 ''(Taishou tennou)''
Emperor Taishô was the son of [[Emperor Meiji]], and the grandfather of the current [[Emperor]]. He is known to history as having been sickly, and his brief reign is marked chiefly by Japan's limited participation in World War I, the Siberian Intervention, the assassination of [[Prime Minister]] [[Hara Takashi]] in 1921, and the Great Kantô Earthquake of 1923.
Taishô was the son of Emperor Meiji and [[Yanagihara Naruko]], an imperial concubine. His wife, Kujô Sadako, was also known as [[Empress Teimei]].
Taishô succeeded his father in [[1912]], and died in 1926, being succeeded by his son, the Shôwa Emperor, also known as Emperor Hirohito.
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{| border="3" align="center"
|- align="center"
|width="35%"|Preceded by<br>'''[[Emperor Meiji]]'''
|width="25%"|'''Emperor of Japan<br>[[1912]]-[[1926]]'''
|width="35%"|Succeeded by<br>'''Emperor Shôwa'''
|}
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==References==
*"Chronology of the Japanese Emperors since the Mid-Nineteenth Century." in ''Handbook of Oriental Studies''. Boston: Brill Academic Publishers, 2008. p336.
[[Category:Emperors]]
*''Died: 1926''
*''Other Names'': 義仁 ''(Yoshihito)''
*''Japanese'': 大正天皇 ''(Taishou tennou)''
Emperor Taishô was the son of [[Emperor Meiji]], and the grandfather of the current [[Emperor]]. He is known to history as having been sickly, and his brief reign is marked chiefly by Japan's limited participation in World War I, the Siberian Intervention, the assassination of [[Prime Minister]] [[Hara Takashi]] in 1921, and the Great Kantô Earthquake of 1923.
Taishô was the son of Emperor Meiji and [[Yanagihara Naruko]], an imperial concubine. His wife, Kujô Sadako, was also known as [[Empress Teimei]].
Taishô succeeded his father in [[1912]], and died in 1926, being succeeded by his son, the Shôwa Emperor, also known as Emperor Hirohito.
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<center>
{| border="3" align="center"
|- align="center"
|width="35%"|Preceded by<br>'''[[Emperor Meiji]]'''
|width="25%"|'''Emperor of Japan<br>[[1912]]-[[1926]]'''
|width="35%"|Succeeded by<br>'''Emperor Shôwa'''
|}
</center>
==References==
*"Chronology of the Japanese Emperors since the Mid-Nineteenth Century." in ''Handbook of Oriental Studies''. Boston: Brill Academic Publishers, 2008. p336.
[[Category:Emperors]]