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| | Sinister Designs: Yoshitoshi Tsukioka |
 | | Saohime, mourning the loss of her brother, joined him in his palace, refusing to leave when it was put to the torch, announcing that she would die to expiate the guilt of rebelling against the Emperor. |
 | | In the Nihonshoki, Japan's earliest written history, (8th century), Yamato Takeru is a son of the twelfth Emperor, Keiko (reigned 71-130 AD), responsible for expanding Yamato territory at the expense of the aboriginal Ainu. |
 | | One night, as the Emperor was on his way to visit his favourite consort, he and his retinue were disconcerted to see in the gloom a shining figure with spikes growing out of its head, standing beside a chapel. |
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