The Meiji Shrine is a Shinto (Japan's original religion) shrine dedicated to Emperor Meiji and Empress Shoken. Japanese history credits Meiji for modernizing Japan by incorporating Western ...

Wright received an original request from Meiji Shrine to translate poems of Emperor Meiji (1852-1912) and Empress Shoken (1850-1914) in 1964, when he was a student at Tokyo’s Keio University.

Princess Aiko visited Meiji Shrine in Tokyo to pay her respects to Empress Shoken on April 10, the day before the 110th anniversary of her death. This marked the young princess’s first official ...