Talk:Emperor Taishō

message: Is all we know about Hirohito's predecssor, that he may have suckled from some wet nurse with lead-tainted nipples? One would think he had a BIT more historical significance than THAT. --Uncle Ed 17:08 Mar 28, 2003 (UTC)
Don't know where the lead poisoning bit comes from, but it is well known that Yoshihito contracted meningitis as a baby and was a few fries short of a Happy Meal for the rest of his brief life.  Page updated. Jpatokal 01:15, 14 Jan 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Lead poisoning?

message: In 1914 Taisho declared war on the German Empire prior to the breakout of the Great War when Germany was embroiled in a war against the Entente. Japan quickly seized Germany's Micronesian colonies and the German overseas coaling port of Quingdao in the Chinese Shandong peninsula. Japan was one of the major negotiaters of the new post-war world order in 1919.
I wrote this because this Japanese Emperor was a participant of the World War (on the allied side). It's odd it's not mentioned. Perhaps someone could include my suggestion into the context? --PaxEquilibrium 21:58, 21 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I have added a comment about World War I to the article. However, the above statement is not quite correct. The major European powers declared war on each other during the first week of August, whereas Japan did not declare war on Germany until August 23. The declaration came after prodding from the British, and the Japanese Diet was quite divided in opinion on Japanese participation. By this time, Emperor Taisho was little more than a figurehead.  --MChew 02:47, 22 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Great War 

message: I think the coronation date given in the info box is incorrect. <BR>82.95.211.92 17:53, 10 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  coronation date 

message: does anyone know his height?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 222.152.10.111 (talk) 03:19, 12 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Height 

message: Is current opening paragraph concerning in length of ways to call him necessary? I think that should belong to more generic article of Japanese emperor or something. 59.61.125.155 (talk) 19:25, 21 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Naming Discussion 

message: Those last two paragraphs are a great explanation of the naming style. However it's excessive for the intro. Could we keep just the first sentence of the second paragraph, and move the rest to the body of the article? And while his reign was relatively short, it would be nice to give at least a short summary of the key events of his life.   Will Beback  talk   09:26, 9 May 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I removed the reference to the Pope as the situation is not similar at all. A Pope commonly takes a papal name upon election (but is not required to do so). He relinquishes that name again upon death. The papal practice is not different from that of other monarchs who also may use a different (previously uncommon) name, see "George VII". The Japanese Emperor however does not take a throne name upon accession but becames simply known as "the Emperor", also not unlike European monarchies, where the ruler is commonly not referred by name. The Emperor "assumes" that throne name only upon death, which makes matters entirely different. During his life time, Yoshihito was never known as Taisho. Finally, it might be blasphemous in Japan to use the personal name but it is not blasphemous to use the personal name of the Pope. And why is WP only concerned to avoid "foreign" blasphemy? Str1977 (talk) 09:35, 31 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Explanation of name in intro 

message: I find the non sourced cuisine section a mystery to me :
It talks about a " beef fried Taishō Tonkatsu" made by the Emperor. 
First the "Ton" in TonKatsu specifically means pork (豚) and katsu made of beef would not be named tonkatsu. Today we can see beef-katsu in Japan, but it's rare.
Moreover, TonKatsu was created by a restaurant in Ginza in 1899 (Taisho becoming emperor in 1915) (source : the Japanese tonkatsu page).
There is no reference to tonkatsu in the japanese page for the Taisho Emperor, and I can't find any reference to a Taisho-tonkatsu on the Japanese google (except tonkatsu made by restaurants named Taisho...)
Even if the emperor might have liked tonkatsu, I think unless reliable sources are given, this part presenting him has the origin of tonkatsu in Japan should be erased.
--Luinil (talk) 08:01, 18 June 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Much of this article is unreferenced and should be 'fixed.'  I have no idea what "beef-fried" means, either, but suspect it is a mistake for "deep-fried"? HammerFilmFan (talk) 06:57, 30 July 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cuisine and Tonkatsu 

message: I have just reverted a change to the religion in the infobox. An IP editor changed Shinto to Nembutsu, but I have changed it back. The Emperor's reign was in the middle of the State Shinto period, so I think there must be some mention of Shinto in there. However, because of the situation at the time, I suspect there would be little in the way of contemporaneous sources on the Emperor's personal beliefs regarding Buddhism. If anyone has any light that they would like to shed on the topic (including the original IP editor of course), I would welcome it. AtHomeIn神戸 (talk) 04:24, 16 March 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Emeror's religion 

message: The article contains two presumably identical tables showing the Emperor's issue. At best, this is unnecessary in such a short article, and at worst it could lead to discrepancies, as one table might be edited but not the other. Suggest comparing the two tables, resolving any existing discrepancies, and then deleting one of them. Doug Ewell (talk) 15:19, 1 April 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Identical tables of issue