subject-families

Updated: May 20, 2025

No definite organization for the purpose was yet created, but it became customary to convene distinguished scions of the Imperial line and heads of great subject-families to discuss and report upon affairs of State. Another innovation referred to in this era was the offering of weapons of war at the shrines.

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