Word: keiki
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...Japan was still feudal, backward, timid abroad and slack within. A revolution in that year returned the Emperor Meiji to great prestige and broke ground for the industrial revolution which suddenly made Japan a world economic peril if not power. The last of the Shoguns, Keiki, too international-minded to keep Japan bottled in tradition, resigned and abolished the office. Japan adopted Western institutions: parliaments, premiers, political parties, elections. In recent months Japan has experienced a wave of such intense nationalism and such intense national hardship that sentiment has grown for casting out Christianity...
...knows, the temporal power of the Tenno (King of Heaven: Emperor) was eclipsed by that of the Shoguns or Tycoons ("High Princes") from the Seventh Century until the Nineteenth. It was, in fact, the great Emperor Meiji, father of the present sovereign, who overthrew the last Shogun of Japan, Keiki, in 1868, and restored the imperial dynasty...
...birth (1850) the last Shogun of Japan, Keiki, still held as military regent the power which had slipped from the Mikados some seven centuries before. When Kawamura was three years old, Commodore Perry, U. S. N., sailed into the harbor of Uraga near Yedo (Tokyo) with four ships and roused slumbering Nippon from the so-called "Oriental stagnation" from which China is now clumsily emerging...
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