Numazu, Shizuoka
After Emperor Meiji's death in 1912, Empress Haruko was granted the title by her adoptive son, Emperor Taishō. She died in 1914 at the Imperial Villa in Numazu, Shizuoka and was buried in the East Mound of the "Fushimi Momoyama Ryo" in Fushimi, Kyoto, next to her husband. Her soul was enshrined in Meiji Shrine in Tokyo. On 9 May 1914, she received the posthumous name Shōken Kōtaigō. Her railway-carriage can be seen today in the Meiji Mura Museum, in Inuyama, Aichi prefecture.