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5 unusual facts about Fushimi


Bugyō

Fushimi bugyō (伏見奉行) – Magistrates or municipal administrators of Fushimi (post-1620).

Emperor Go-Fushimi

Fushimi acted as cloistered emperor for a period, but after a while, from 1313 to 1318, Go-Fushimi acted in that function.

Fushimi Station

Fushimi-Inari Station, Fushimi-Momoyama Station - on the Keihan Railway Keihan Main Line (both are located in Fushimi-ku, Kyoto)

Ōtori Keisuke

In the aftermath of military failure at the Battle of Toba-Fushimi in early 1868, Shogun Tokugawa Yoshinobu returned to Edo and expressed serious consideration towards pledging allegiance to the new Meiji government.

Samurai in Japanese literature

The Last Statement of Torii Mototada outlines the justification, written to his son, for his decision to remain behind at Fushimi castle.


Awataguchi Takamitsu

Prince Fushimi went on to say that these paintings by Takamitsu were stored in the monastery on Eizan until the ninth year of Eikyō (1436 A.D.) when the fourth volume's text was removed so that it would be rewritten by Emperor Go-Hanazono.

Emperor Fushimi

In 1298, Fushimi abdicated and began his reign as cloistered emperor.

Fushimi Hiroaki

His father, Prince Fushimi Hiroyoshi was a naval commander in the Imperial Japanese Navy, and died shortly after the opening stages of the Second Sino-Japanese War in 1937.

Tambabashi Station

On July 29, 1913 the station was renamed in order to clarify that the station is not convenient for the newly raised Fushimi Momoyama Tomb of Emperor Meiji, the nearest station of which is Fushimi-Momoyama Station (as renamed from Fushimi in 1915).


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