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	Emperor of Japan - Facts, Information, and Encyclopedia Reference article
		The role of the Emperor of Japan has alternated between that of a supreme-rank cleric with largely symbolic powers and that of an actual imperial ruler from the dawn of history until the mid-twentieth century.
		Although the emperor performs many of the roles of a head of state, there has been a persistent controversy within Japan as to whether the emperor is in fact a true monarch in a political sense or merely a hereditary pretender, as a political servant of a constitutional parliamentary republic.
		The acceptable imperial wives, brides for an emperor and for a crown prince, were even legislated into the Meiji-era imperial house laws, which stipulated that daughters of Sekke (the five main branches of the higher Fujiwara) and daughters of the imperial clan itself were primarily acceptable brides.
	www.startsurfing.com /encyclopedia/e/m/p/Emperor_of_Japan_1c74.html (4127 words)

	Emperor Toba - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Emperor Toba (鳥羽天皇 Toba Tennō) (February 24, 1103 – July 20, 1156) was the 74th imperial ruler of Japan, according to the traditional order of succession.
		He became emperor at the age of four upon the death of his father, Emperor Horikawa.
		Government affairs were controlled by his grandfather as cloistered emperor.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Emperor_Toba_of_Japan (278 words)

	Emperor of Japan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The role of the Emperor of Japan has alternated between that of a supreme-rank cleric with largely symbolic powers and that of an actual imperial ruler from the dawn of history until the mid-twentieth century.
		Although the emperor performs many of the roles of a head of state, there has been a persistent controversy within Japan as to whether the emperor is in fact a true monarch in a political sense or merely a hereditary pretender, as a political servant of a constitutional parliamentary republic.
		The acceptable imperial wives, brides for an emperor and for a crown prince, were even legislated into the Meiji-era imperial house laws, which stipulated that daughters of Sekke (the five main branches of the higher Fujiwara) and daughters of the imperial clan itself were primarily acceptable brides.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Emperor_of_Japan (4077 words)

	EMPEROR OF JAPAN : Encyclopedia Entry
		Cloistered emperors have been known to come into conflict with the reigning emperor from time to time; a notable example is the Hogen Rebellion of 1156, in which former Emperor Sutoku attempted to seize power from the then current Emperor Go-Shirakawa, both of whom were supported by different clans of samurai.
		Although the emperor currently performs many of the roles of a ceremonial sovereign as head of state, there has been persistent controversy within Japan as to whether the emperor is in fact a true monarch in a political sense or merely a hereditary pretender holding such office within a constitutional parliamentary republic.
		The acceptable source of imperial wives, brides for the emperor and crown prince, were even legislated into the Meiji-era imperial house laws (1889), which stipulated that daughters of Sekke (the five main branches of the higher Fujiwara) and daughters of the imperial clan itself were primarily acceptable brides.
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	Emperor Go-Toba of Japan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Emperor Go-Toba (後鳥羽天皇) (August 6, 1180 - March 28, 1239) was the 82nd imperial ruler of Japan.
		He was the fourth son of Emperor Takakura, and thus grandson of Emperor Go-Shirakawa.
		Go-Toba reigned as cloistered Emperor from 1198 till 1221 during reigns of three emperors, but his power was more limited than former cloistered Emperors in the Heian era.
	americancanyon.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Emperor_Go-Toba_of_Japan (645 words)

	Japanese Emperors @ japanhotelcenter.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Emperor Fushimi (1265 - 1317) was the 92nd imperial ruler of Japan, reigning from 1287 to 1298.
		Emperor Reizei was the 63rd emperor of Japan (967 - 969).
		Kônin was the ancestor of all the subsequent Japan...
	www.japanhotelcenter.com /picmo_769_dir.html (2811 words)

	swuklink: Searchable Time-Line (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Emperor Jomei ascends to the throne of Japan
		Emperor Junna ascends to the throne of Japan
		Emperor Takakura ascends to the throne of Japan
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	Jokyu War - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Seeking independence, and the power rightfully his as Emperor of Japan, Emperor Go-Toba gathered allies in 1221, and planned to effect an overthrow of the shogunate.
		When Emperor Go-Toba of Japan heard of this string of defeats, he left the city for Mount Hiei, where he asked for aid from the sohei, the warrior monks of Mount Hiei.
		Emperor Go-Toba was banished to the Oki Islands, from where he never returned.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Shokyu_War (429 words)

	Japanese Culture - Royalty - The Imperial Family
		The regalia, a mirror, a sword and a curved jewel are symbols of the legitimacy and authority of the emperor.
		A combination of efforts to free the emperor from the web of entrenched bureaucracy and the court's increasing preoccupation with the pursuit of the arts and literature led to a situation where the real power was held by those occupying the posts of regent, for emperors not yet of age, and chief advisor.
		The emperor had no political powers and under Article 1 of the new 'Showa' constitution he became 'the symbol of the State and of the unity of the people, deriving his position from the will of the people with whom resides sovereign power'.
	www.japan-zone.com /culture/imperial.shtml (1079 words)

	Toba - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The city of Toba in the Mie prefecture, Japan.
		Lake Toba, a lake in northern Sumatra, Indonesia, and site of a devastating volcanic eruption 75,000 years ago; and the Toba catastrophe theory, according to which modern human evolution was affected by this event.
		Toba, a Java-to-C translator developed in University of Arizona, which supports Java 1.1 and no later versions.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Toba (147 words)

	Emperor Chukyo of Japan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Emperor Chūkyō (仲恭天皇) (1218-1234) was the 85th imperial ruler of Japan.
		He ruled in 1221, and was not officially listed as an emperor until 1870 due to doubts caused by the length of his reign.
		Chūkyō took the throne as an infant following the abdication of his father, Emperor Juntoku, but his grandfather, the former emperor Go-Toba staged a rebellion to overthrown the shogun.
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	Japanese History \| History of Japan :: Japan Visitor
		In Japan in 587AD the Soga clan was victorious in a civil war defeating its rivals the Mononobe and Nakatomi clan and heralding the formal acceptance of Buddhism which it had overseen the introduction of from the mainland.
		The first Heian Emperor Kammu was probably the most powerful of any Emperor before or since, but after his death in 806 the Fujiwara increased in political power by providing the imperial house with Fujiwara concubines and imperial consorts, thus forging marriage bonds that gave Fujiwara nobles access to the highest Court administrative positions.
		Emperors usually officially reigned for a very short time before placing a boychild on the throne and retiring to really rule from behind the scenes not only free of the constrictions of courtly decorum and ritual but free to exercise the power bestowed on them by the enormous imperial wealth they thereby gained access to.
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	Emperor Go-Toba (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		He was the fourth son of Emperor Takakura, and thus grandson of Emperor Go-Shirakawa.
		Go-Toba reigned as cloistered Emperor from 1198 till 1221 during reigns of three emperors, but his power was more limited than former cloistered Emperors in the Heian era.
		Go-Toba's rebellion was defeated and Chūkyō was replaced as emperor by Go-Horikawa, a nephew of Go-Toba.
	en.askmore.net /Gotoba.htm (645 words)

	japan
		Kawanakajima, south of Nagano in Honshu Ichinotani, west of Osaka Toba- Fushimi, south of Kyoto Seta, at the south end of Lake Biwa Shizugatake, north end of Lake Biwa Sekigahara, west of the Kiso River Okehazama, on the coast SE of Nagoya Ishibashiyama, south of Hakone on the Izu peninsula.
		The Taira clan, including a reigning Emperor, were sent to the bottom by the Miramoto led by Yoshinate, who then assumed the Shogunate at their base in the Kanto plain.
		Also to be noted in Japan during the Edo period (1615¿1868, was the existence of fanatical bands of warrior monks ¿ those based near the capital gave the Emperors and Shoguns a lot of trouble.
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	Discover Japan: Japanese Monarchy \| japanese emperor, japanese monarchy
		The Emperor of Japan is Japan's titular head of state and the head of the Japanese Imperial Family.
		Many Emperors cited in the formal list of Japanese Emperors died at a very young age and can hardly be said to have "ruled" in any serious sense of the word.
		Cloistered Emperors have been known to come into conflict with their official counterparts from time to time; a notable example is the Hogen Rebellion of 1156, in which the former Emperor Sutoku attempted to seize power from the current Emperor Go-Shirakawa.
	www.japandiscovery.com /people/monarchy/emperor.html (322 words)

	History of Japan
		The second successor, Tokugawa Ieyasu, succeeded Hideyoshi's unifed Japan, and sat the throne of shogun in 1603.
		Though he needed the authority of the emperor, he was low-born and didn't have the right to became shogun.
		In this era, Japan was a new kid on the block in world-wide imperialism, The leaders of the government frequently visited western countries, to learned how to govern and grow the nation.
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	Emperor Go-Shirakawa Summary
		Born Masahito, Goshirakawa was the fourth son of Emperor Toba and Fujiwara Akiko (Shoshi).
		Emperor Go-Shirakawa (後白河天皇 Go-Shirakawa Tennō) (October 18, 1127 – April 26, 1192) was the 77th imperial ruler of Japan, according to the traditional order of succession.
		When his brother, Emperor Konoe, died in 1155, Go-Shirakawa became emperor with support of Toba and a powerful lord Fujiwara no Tadamichi, since they were against Retired Emperor Sutoku and did not want his son to be the next emperor.
	www.bookrags.com /Emperor_Go-Shirakawa (1247 words)

	Emperor Meiji
		The battle cry of the victorious forces of the Satsuma and Choshu samurai warriors was sonno joi - respect the emperor and expel the barbarians.
		China, for centuries the superior schoolmaster of Japan, was weak during the second half of the nineteenth century.
		The rural population revered the institution of the emperor as a god-like character.
	www.artelino.com /articles/emperor_meiji.asp (1368 words)

	Japan Omnibus - History - Early Japanese History
		Although legend has it that Japan was founded in 660BC, archaeologists agree that settlement in the Japanese archpelago dates back as far as 100,000 years.
		The emperor Godaigo took advantage of the subsequent unrest to restore Imperial rule for a short period of time, known as the Kammu restoration.
		But the emperor, too, was lacking in foresight and in turn was overthrown by the Ashikaga clan and military rule restored, this time from Kyoto.
	www.japan-zone.com /omnibus/history1.shtml (1014 words)

	Kamakura Era: 1192-1333
		Minamoto-no-Yoritomo was the leader of the house Genji and basically was in competition with the Emperor for control of Japan.
		The catch was that the shogun could move those armies without the Emperor's permission, thus making the shogun the true ruling power in the country.
		Emperor Gotoba in Kyoto wanted to take back control of the country and raised his own army.
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	Emperor Toba of Japan -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Emperor Toba (鳥羽天皇) (February 24, 1103 - July 20, 1156) was the 74th (Click link for more info and facts about imperial ruler) imperial ruler of (A constitutional monarchy occupying the Japanese Archipelago; a world leader in electronics and automobile manufacture and ship building) Japan.
		He reigned from 1107 to 1123, but actual power was held by the "retired" emperor Shirakawa in a process known as (Click link for more info and facts about cloistered rule) cloistered rule.
		He became Emperor at the age of four upon the death of his father, (Click link for more info and facts about Emperor Horikawa) Emperor Horikawa.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/E/Em/Emperor_Toba_of_Japan.htm (553 words)

	1180 - Facts, Information, and Encyclopedia Reference article
		During the third year of the Jisho era of Japan, a devastating whirlwind damages Kyoto.
		Emperor Antoku succeeds Emperor Takakura as emperor of Japan
		Berenguela of Castile, queen of Alfonso IX of Castile (died 1246)
	www.startsurfing.com /encyclopedia/1/1/8/1180.html (251 words)

	1180
		Kilij Arslan II allies with Saladin after the death of Byzantine emperor Manuel I Comnenus
		End of the reign of Emperor Takakura of Japan
		Emperor Antoku ascends to the throne of Japan
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	Knowledge King - 1120s (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		End of the reign of Emperor Toba of Japan.
		Emperor Sutoku ascends to the throne of Japan
		1129 Emperor Toba of Japan begins his cloistered rule.
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	THE RETIRED EMPEROR GOTOBA
		The Emperor Gotoba, or Toba II, reigned A.D. He was the son of the retired Emperor Takakura, and was banished to Amagori, in the Oki Islands, where he took the name of Sen-Tei, busied himself in making swords, and died in the year 1239.
		He was very sensitive to noises, and it is said that the frogs of the pool of Shike-kuro have been dumb ever since the year 1200; for their croaking at night disturbed his rest, and he commanded them to be silent.
		It was in the eleventh year of his reign that the title of Shōgun was created and conferred upon the great General Yoritomo; which title, down to the year 1868, was borne by the real rulers of the country, the Emperor himself being not much more than a figure-head.
	www.detarver.com /A_Hundred_Verses_from_Old_Japan/THE_RETIRED_EMPEROR_GOTOBA.html (159 words)

	Emperor Toba of Japan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Emperor Toba (鳥羽天皇) (February 24, 1103 - July 20, 1156) was the 74th imperial ruler of Japan.
		1141-1176 Imperial Princess ??ko ((女朱)子内親王), empress (chūgū to Emperor Nijō)
		He continued to hold power through the reigns of three Emperors, Sutoku, Konoe, and Go-Shirakawa.
	kernersville.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Emperor_Toba_of_Japan (348 words)

	japan,emperors,history,cartoonbuddy,.com,cartoon buddy club
		The Emperor's before the Oriental version of Europe's dark ages, are mostly like the United Kingdoms `King Arthur`, mythical and based on people who probably really did exist, but of which there is no absolute proof.
		The flag of Japan was created in 1870 although the red sun had been used on war banners for centuries.
		Japans ancestors were migrants from the mainland of Asia, the earliest known being the Ainu clan who arrived around 15000 BC to populate the islands.
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	Emperor – Japan - List of Items - MSN Encarta
		Emperor – Japan - List of Items - MSN Encarta
		(1180-1239), emperor of Japan (1183-1198) and renowned poet.
		Go-Toba became emperor at the age of 3 and abdicated at age 18 in favor of his...
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	Japan in January
		Mount Fuji is the tallest mountain in Japan and is considered sacred.
		On this date also in the Imperial Palace the Emperor performs the rite of shihohai, or worship of the four quarters.
		On January 2nd the public is allowed to enter the inner palace grounds, one of only two times during the entire year that this is allowed.
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