Notes
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2 Nomura Gen, The Establishment of Japan's Pre-modern Country and the Emperor (Osaka: Seibundo, 2006).
3 Fukaya Katsumi, Pre-modern Japan: Society and the Emperor (Tokyo: Azekura Shoboo, 1991).
4 Transformed Yangming Learning and Modern Japan (Tokyo: Hose Univ. Press, 2019).
5 Ishii Ryosuke, Emperor: Making of the Emperor and the Tradition of Symbol (Tokyo: Kodansha Gakujyutsu Bunko, 2011).