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Title: The mikado's empire
Year: 1894 (1890s)
Authors: Griffis, William Elliot, 1843-1928
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Publisher: New York, Harper & brothers
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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ugh the successive stages of aboriginal migration, tribal govern-ment, conquest by invaders, pure monarchy, feudalism, anarchy, andmodern consolidated empire, should have secreted the material formuch interesting history. In the many lulls of peace, scholars wouldarise, and opportunities would offer, to record the history which pre-vious generations had made. The foreign historian who will bring the * Mutsuhito (meek man), the present emperor, is the second son of themikado Komei (1847-1867), whom he succeeded, and the Empress FujiwaraAsako. He was born November 3d, 1850. He succeeded his father February3d, 1867; was crowned on the 28th day of the Eighth mouth, 1868 ; and was mar-ried on the 28th of the Twclth month, 1868, to Haruko, daughter of Ichijo Tadaka,a noble of the second degree of the first rank. She was born on the 17th of theFourth month, 1850. The dowager-empress Asako, mother of the emperor, isof the house of Kujo, and was born on the 14th day of the Twelfth month, 1833.
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His Imperial Japanese Majesty, Mutsuhito, Emperor of Japan, and the 123d Mikado of the Line. MATEMIALS OF KIJSTOHY. 39 necessary qualifications to the task of composing a complete historyof Japan, i. e., knowledge of the languages and literature of Japan, Chi-na, Corea, and the dialects of the Malay Archipelago, Siberia, and theother islands of the North Pacific, historical insight, sympathy, andjudicial acumen, has before him a \4rgin field. The body of native Japanese historical writings is rich and solid.It is the largest and most important division of their voluminous liter-ature. It treats very fully the period between the rise of the noblefamilies from about the ninth century until the present time. Thereal history of the period prior to the eighth century of the Christianera is very meagre. It is nearly certain that the Japanese possessedno writing until the sixth century a.d. Their oldest extant composi-tion is the Kojiki, or Book of Ancient Traditions. It may be calledthe Bib

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