皇

imperial ceremony of ancestor worship formerly held on the autumnal equinox

Legend

Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors (mythological rulers of ancient China)

the emperor as a symbol of Japan; symbolic emperor

Grand Empress Dowager

imperial ceremony of ancestor worship formerly held on the vernal equinox

Festival of Emperor Jimmu (formerly held annually on April 3, the supposed day of his death)

Imperial Standard

female emperor (of Japan)

retired empress; ex-empress; former empress; empress emerita

little emperor; spoilt only child (in China)

symbolic emperor system

antipope

Nihon Montoku Tennō Jitsuroku (fifth of the six classical Japanese history texts)

Sumo

Emperor's Cup; trophy given to tournament winners

Old Imperial Family; former Imperial family; eleven former houses of the Imperial Family stripped of membership in 1947

Message welcoming a new imperial era

prosperity to the emperor

Papocaesarism

(former) Papal States; Vatican City

Their Majesties the Emperor and Empress

Crown Prince (of Japan)

matrilineal emperor of Japan; emperor (either male or female) whose mother is (was) a member of the Imperial family but whose father is (was) not

patrilineal imperial succession (Japan)

cloistered emperor; ex-emperor who has become a monk

pope emeritus