kung-hsien-wang

Updated: July 16, 2026

No such international refinement as extra-territorial jurisdiction existed in those days, and the Japanese shogun felt no shame in delivering his countrymen to be punished by an alien State. It is not wonderful that when Yoshimitsu died, the Chinese Emperor bestowed on him the posthumous title Kung-hsien-wang, or "the faithful and obedient king."

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