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...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...
...should not judge their form of government, he added, without considering the character and history of the Japanese people. Since February 11, 660 B.C., the traditional date for the founding of the empire, Japan had been ruled by the Shoguns who controlled the office of Prime Minster, while the Emperor was reduced to a religious figurehead too holy to interfere in lowly matters of government. A revival of learning in the eighteenth century and contact with the western world revealed their true condition to the Japanese people. In 1867 the last Shogun retired and restored the Emperor to his full...
...Emperor's side won. Having set Go Daigo, descendant of the Sun Goddess, back on his throne in Kyoto, Takauji Ashikaga lost no time in pulling himself up by the sacred boot straps of the Emperor. As the Emperor's most trusted adviser he hoped to become Shogun. When Go Daigo appointed his son instead, Takauji, furious but resourceful, persuaded the Emperor that his son was a traitor, had him put to death. Next he worked on Go Daigo's army with bribes. Finally in 1335 he set himself up as Shogun at Kamakura. Go Daigo, refusing...
Prince lyesatu Tokugawa, descendant of the first Japanese shogun, and delegate to the Washington arms conference, called on President Conant on Friday afternoon at 3 o'clock, and was later entertained at a tea given in his honor by Reger B. Merriman '96, Master of Eliot House, in the Masters Lodgings. Prince Tokugawa was accompanied by his son, lyemasa Tokugawa, Japanese minister to Canada, and by his granddaughter. Toyo Tokugawa. The Prince has already spent 25 years in the service of Japan, including four years at Ottawa...