ghokodo

Updated: June 10, 2025

Thus, the princes of the elder branch not only became eligible for the throne, but also enjoyed great revenues from the Ghokodo estate, though it had been bequeathed as a solatium for exclusion from the succession; whereas the princes of the junior branch, when not occupying the throne, were without a foot of land or the smallest source of income.

F. (Frank) Brinkley - A History of the Japanese People : From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era