Word: sei
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rule; others rule in his name. In the past this delegation of authority has meant that the Emperor had wealth and power only of mystic sorts. For most of Japan's modern history - from 1185 to 1868 - the real power in Japan was held by military dictators called Sei-i-tai-Shogun ("Barbarian-subduing Generalissimo"). The most astonishing degree of delegation came in the 13th Century, when a titular Emperor's functions as a figurehead were usurped by an abdicated Emperor, while temporal power was supposedly held by a hereditary Shogun, who left actual authority to the Shogun...