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Empress dowager's memorial tablet moved to shrine in palace

TOKYO, Japan - A procession of carriages on June 18 accompanies a tablet signifying the spirit of the late Empress Dowager Nagako to a shrine in the Imperial Palace in Tokyo dedicated to the imperial family's ancestors. The ''reidai'' tablet was transferred to the shrine from the Fukiage Omiya Palace within the palace grounds, where the empress dowager lived. The empress dowager, posthumously known as Empress Kojun, died in June last year at the age of 97.

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Empress Dowager's coffin transferred to imperial mortuary

TOKYO, Japan - A hearse carrying the coffin of Empress Dowager Nagako proceeds from the Fukiage Omiya Palace to a temporary mortuary set up in the most interior corner of the dining room at the Imperial Palace on June 28.

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(5)Empress Dowager Nagako dies at 97

TOKYO, Japan - Empress Nagako and Emperor Hirohito enjoy viewing plum (ume) blossoms in the garden of the Fukiage Omiya Palace. The photo was taken in February 1986 three years before the death of her husband.

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Empress dowager's memorial tablet moved to shrine in palace

TOKYO, Japan - A procession of carriages on June 18 accompanies a tablet signifying the spirit of the late Empress Dowager Nagako to a shrine in the Imperial Palace in Tokyo dedicated to the imperial family's ancestors. The ''reidai'' tablet was transferred to the shrine from the Fukiage Omiya Palace within the palace grounds, where the empress dowager lived. The empress dowager, posthumously known as Empress Kojun, died in June last year at the age of 97.

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(5)Empress Dowager Nagako dies at 97

TOKYO, Japan - Empress Nagako and Emperor Hirohito enjoy viewing plum (ume) blossoms in the garden of the Fukiage Omiya Palace. The photo was taken in February 1986 three years before the death of her husband.

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(4)Empress Dowager Nagako dies at 97

TOKYO, Japan - Empress Nagako and Emperor Hirohito, posthumously known as Emperor Showa, chat over their photo album in a picture taken at the Fukiage Omiya Palace in 1987.

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Empress dowager takes rest at Omiya Palace

TOKYO, June 15 - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter June 15 shows the Fukiage Omiya Palace where Empress Dowager Nagako takes rest.