old-time-order

Updated: August 27, 2026

Whatever hopes these conservatives entertained of a reversion to the old-time-order of things, they were signally disappointed. The Daika reformers had invariably contrived that conciliation should march hand in hand with innovation. Temmu relied on coercion. He himself administered State affairs with little recourse to ministerial aid but always with military assistance in the background.

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