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It is plain, however, that they accepted a subordinate position without active protest, for nothing like a revolt on their part is alluded to, directly or indirectly, in the Records or the Chronicles. The term for all subjects was tomobe. The palace of the sovereign called miya or odono corresponded in appearance and construction with the shrines of the deities.
F. (Frank) Brinkley - A History of the Japanese People
From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era
"At that time the sovereign was still very close to the Kami, and the articles and utensils for the latter were little distinguished from those for the former. Thus it is seen that in remote antiquity religious rites and administrative functions were not distinguished. The ceremony spoken of above the Odono matsuri, or consecration of the palace is the earliest religious rite mentioned.
F. (Frank) Brinkley - A History of the Japanese People
From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era
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