 This doesn't restore the royalty of the 11 collateral branches of the Imperial House that were abolished in October 1947.During the Kofun period, so-called "archaic funerals" were held for the dead Emperors, but only the funerary rites from the end of the period, which the chronicles describe in more detail, are known.They were centered around the rite of the "mogari" (), a provisional depository between death and permanent burial.