Meanings

allowance allotted to the Imperial family

matrilineal emperor of Japan

Grand Empress Dowager

Grand Empress Dowager, the Empress Dowager and the Empress Consort

Roman Curia

clans supposedly descended from the imperial family

crown prince

grandchild of Amaterasu (i.e. Ninigi no Mikoto)

Kōtai Shrine (main shrine of the Inner Ise Shrine)

Imperial Household Shinto

Nihon Montoku Tennō Jitsuroku (fifth of the six classical Japanese history texts)

Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors (mythological rulers of ancient China)

symbolic emperor system

Imperial Declaration of Humanity (renunciation of imperial claim to divinity; January 1, 1946)

imperial ceremony of ancestor worship formerly held on the vernal equinox

spirits of past emperors

Festival of Emperor Jimmu (formerly held annually on April 3, the supposed day of his death)

imperial ceremony of ancestor worship formerly held on the autumnal equinox

making people subjects of the emperor

imperialisation policy (esp. on Korea during Japan's colonial rule) (imperialization)