It could be worse; in the Heian period the Emperor's job was performing religious rituals basically constantly, and it was widely recognized as so exhausting th

It could be worse; in the Heian period the Emperor's job was performing religious rituals basically constantly, and it was widely recognized as so exhausting that emperors generally ruled for about a decade and then retired. (This led to a small group of retired emperors, called the 'cloistered emperors', who were nominally Buddhist monks and ordinary citizens but in fact did much of the actual work of ruling the country, since the actual emperor was too busy with religious duties to exert much political power)