Imperial mourning order - Kōshitsu Fukumorei

Japanese: 皇室服喪令 - こうしつふくもれい

It can also be read as "fukusourei." The system of mourning for the Imperial Family was based on the provisions of the Taiho and Yoro funeral ordinances, while also taking into account the customs of the samurai class as times changed, and was finally finalized when the Imperial Family Mourning Ordinance was enacted in 1909. The ordinance consists of 33 articles in 4 chapters: general provisions, grand mourning, court mourning, and classification of mourning periods. In other words, the grand mourning for the Emperor of Daigyo (the honorific title used before the posthumous title), the Grand Empress Dowager, the Empress Dowager, and the Empress is called a grand mourning, and the grand mourning for the Emperor of Daigyo, the Empress Dowager, and his birth mother, the Grand Empress Dowager, is called a ryoan (a period of one year), and the mourning for the Emperor other than the grand mourning is called a court mourning.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

〈ふくそうれい〉とも読む。皇室の服喪の制は，大宝･養老の喪葬令（そうそうりよう）の規定に準拠しながら，時勢の推移に応じ，武家の慣行も加味して運用されてきたが，1909年皇室服喪令が制定されるに及び，ようやく一定した。同令は総則，大喪，宮中喪，喪期区分の4章33条より成る。すなわち天皇が大行天皇(没後追号以前の尊称)，太皇太后，皇太后，皇后の喪に当たるのを大喪（たいそう）といい，とくに大行天皇，皇太后および生母たる太皇太后の大喪を諒闇（りようあん）(期間1年)とし，大喪以外の天皇の服喪を宮中喪とする。

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