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From the accession of the Minamoto to power the history of the shogunate the long history of the military supremacy really begins; Japan thereafter, down to the present era of Meiji, having really two Emperors: the Heavenly Sovereign, or Deity Incarnate, representing the religion of the race; and the veritable Imperator, who wielded all the powers of the administration.
After that war, which raised Japan to a leading place among the nations, the old problem came up again for solution. Once more the Elder Statesmen as the Meiji leaders were called asked the Diet to maintain the organization of the army at the point to which it had been carried during the war, and once more the lower house of the Diet proved very difficult to persuade.
Until suppressed by the government in the early years of Meiji there were in many parts of Japan phallic shrines of considerable popularity, at which, on festivals at least, sexual immorality seemed to be an essential part of the worship.
She has inculcated the accents of Pentonville, with its aitches dropped and recovered again, among the high Japanese aristocracy. But first her husband died; and then the old Imperial Court of the Emperor Meiji passed away. So Baroness Miyazaki had to retire from the society of princesses.
Though as a nation the Japanese of the Méiji era are grossly forgetful of this fact, yet, as Professor Chamberlain says, "All education was for centuries in Buddhist hands.
In Izumo I found that, prior to Meiji, there were sumptuary laws prescribing not only the material of the dresses to be worn by the various classes, but even the colours of them, and the designs of the patterns.
There was consequently no arithmetical complication connected with the adoption of the single gold standard. It was only necessary to double the denomination, leaving the silver subsidiary coins unchanged. In the field of education the Meiji statesmen effected speedy reforms.
In the first place Japanese wages have increased so rapidly that in the last fifteen years they have nearly doubled, and, secondly, it must be remembered that Japanese labour is not so efficient as that of Europe and America. The work of railway construction, which may be said to have commenced with the Meiji era, has not advanced as rapidly as some other undertakings.
Upon that matter my readers must form their own opinion. It is a question, the answer to which largely depends upon the point of view from which it is regarded and the factors taken into or left out of account. In the first year of the Meiji the Emperor, in an edict, laid down clearly and concisely the lines on which he and his advisers had determined that Japan should for the future be governed.
Let the officers of the clans abandoning that title call themselves officers of the Emperor, receiving property equal to that which they have hitherto held. "Let these three important measures be adopted forthwith, that the empire may be raised on a basis imperishable for ages ... 2nd year of Meiji .
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