Word: shogunate
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...broad, modern streets, planned after the 1923 earthquake as both thoroughfares and firebreaks, stretched emptily. The squalid, crooked back alleys, so planned three centuries ago by the Shogun Ieyasu for defensive fighting, no longer crawled with humanity...
...bull-necked southern samurai Saigo, whose revolt in 1866 against the Shogun unified the Japanese clans under the Emperor for the first time in centuries. He later revolted against his Emperor and died the death of an ancient Roman...
...Shogun of Japan, then busy extirpating Christianity with fire and sword, loaded 134 "converted Christians" on a ship and sent them to the Spanish missionaries in Manila with a letter saying: "If it is converts you want, begin with these." They turned out to be lepers, soon spread the disease. Before 1632 there was no leprosy in the Philippines...
...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's hereditary adviser...
Died. Prince lyesato Tokugawa, 76, longtime (1903-33) president of the Japanese House of Peers, English-educated friend of the U. S.; of pneumonia; in Tokyo. Had Emperor Mutsuhito not emerged from seclusion, restored author ity to the throne, Tokugawa would have been Shogun (military ruler) of Japan...