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: A very good site with a lot a genealogical
: informations about the japanese impérial
: family
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: http://www.kunaicho.go.jp/eindex.html
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For information of readers: The Kunaicho site is that of Imperial Household Agency. The information public there, is so-called official truth.
Which may well correspond with reality, in most details.
Or be problematic in some embarrasing points.
I have been well aware of that site and, hopefully, all genealogical information present there.
I would not call its genealogical content "a lot". Rather, its genealogical information is scarce, and somewhat more extensive information are easily available in several other places.
Historical information on that site is also scarce.
All in all, I would not call that material "good" if one is desiring genealogical or historical knowledge.
For example, about genealogy, it practically only gives the currently living members of the imperial family, which isn't that much. And, additionally, a bit about a few others, recently deceased.
All in all, seeking genealogical information from that site, provides one as much as to grandfather generation of the present monarch. It supplies, in other words, an extended family of about four generations, meaning that remotest relatives (and relations) available are as distant as some first cousins of the present monarch, and their kids.
That's practically a drop in an ocean, seeing that historically, some 40 and more generations of imperial lineage are in records, and that miyake branches, themselves imperial princes yet a century and less ago, are remote male-line cousins of recent emperors, their lineage diverging some six centuries ago (over 20 generations - 20th or so cousins). - compare with the width and expansiveness of "four generations", "first cousins", of the public Kunaicho material. The proverbial drop in an ocean.
Even these 40 generations and miyake branches are well-known genealogies to connoisseurs. Real challenging tasks would emerge when to check yet more obscure details for genealogies, and longer pedigrees in maternal ancestries. For such challenging tasks, good sites with a lot of information would be desirable.
The current Kunaicho pages are not such.
An example: Kunaicho pages give practically nothing to have an understanding of the traditions and historical background of the Imperial Succession Crisis question, and customary (including religious) constraints in imagining solutions to it.
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