All that is Emperor Yoshihito now rests in the Hinkya" or "House of the Deo" specially constructed inside the palace grounds. The sol of Yoahihito has been joined to "the great spirit."
For the first 13 days after death the body rested in the "coffin room" a plain small chamber inside the lain palace, carpeted with plain new rice straw, overlaid with The coffin lies on by plain undecorated—folding'
except in front where are les on which were placed lighted candles, evergreens, "sake" and other offerings, High Government ind Court officials, the Peers of the land took turns in keeping vigil in this coffin room day end night. In the open court outside the room a number of capt sing of the Imperial Guard patrol, For 13 days meals were plaged on the tables or benches. three times a day as if bring served to @ living man, On the 15th day the coffin was again removed, this time, into what called Hinkyu or the house of dead wien the soul becomes united with the great spirit, The Hinkyw is built in the palace ground and. the Imperial coffin on being carried out of the coffin room was followed the Emperor, Empress, the Empress Dowager and the other Imperial personages and high dignitaries, The Shinto Ritual Attar the Impericl coffin was] placed in position in the regular Shinto music was performed. peror worshipped ut' the coffin Followed by all others pre The Imperi the funeral Shinto ritual wi daily until the day of funeral, Eighteen daya previous to the funeral the ceremony of offering the name by which Emperor Yoshibito, shall be known henceforth took place, This ritual consists largely of Shinto music. The Emperor hiraself informs the spirit of the departed Emperor of the nam All thin took place in the presence of the Imperial family and dignitaries assembled in the Hinkyw.
On the morning of the day of the! funeral is performed the ritual of moving the spirit of the Emperor Meiji to the Gonden or palace where is kept until it joins the spirits. of the Imperial ancestors in the Ancestral Shrine in the Imperial Palace precinets. The ceremony of moving the spirit from the Hinkya to the Gonden is conducted by the} Funeral Commissioners and_ then again the Emperor with the family. prays at the bier. Then follows the last ritual" held in the chortly before the last moval to the public ecomony in the: Shinjuku park and afterwards to the grave, by train for 26 miles, The New Emperor new—Majesty Emperor Hirohito begins his reign under! circumstances most favourable to him, in s0 far as his training as a ruler and the temperament of the people go. Born on April 29, 1901, he is at the threshold of ' early manhood, with all the advantages: of the most modern and approved education. He has the unique record of having forsonally seen the Western world, before conding the throne, an experience which none of his predecessors has. gone through.
His regentship of five years has ven him a training of value befitting him for the position he now occupies. But most important of all he has the heart of his people, who find in him a reincarnation, 50 to say, of his illustrious—grand-her, calm, thoughtful, courageous and decisive. Take for instance the Toranomon incident. A hullo: had ed through his motor ear} dow, just missing him, and he walked into the throne room of the Diet, with perfect calmness, as if nothing had happened, and read out
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