Word: shogunate
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...High Princes") toward the Western nations had been maintained for centuries in accordance with the following typical Shogun's proclamation: "So long as the sun warms the earth let no Christian be so bold as to come to Japan. Let all know that if King Philip † himself or even the very God of the Christian contravene this prohibition they shall pay for it with their heads. Let them think no more of us, just as if we were no longer in the world...
...Japan, last week, there came to the U. S. Embassy the great Prince Iyesato Tokugawa. Since 1903 he has been President of the House of Peers, but that is relatively unimportant. The unique distinction of Prince Tokugawa is that he is the heir of the last dynasty of Japanese Shoguns who ruled from 1603 until the last Shogun, Yoshinobu Tokugawa, voluntarily renounced his powers in 1867, and permitted restoration of the authority of the Japanese Imperial Dynasty...
...everyone 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...
...educational history of Japan since 1868 began by the opening of schools closed directly after the fall of the Shogun. In 1871 it was announced that education was to be universal without regard to class or sex. Soon afterward, students were sent abroad and foreign teachers were employed in all departments. But in spite of mistakes and failures a working system has been established which has brought about good results...