 After the Emperor's death in 1912, the Japanese Diet passed a resolution to commemorate his role in the Meiji Restoration.An iris garden in an area of Tokyo where Emperor Meiji and the Empress had been known to visit was chosen as the building's location for the Shinto shrine Meiji Jingū.The shrine does not contain the Emperor's grave, which is at Fushimi-momoyama south of Kyoto.