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| | Amazon.com: Above the Clouds: Status Culture of the Modern Japanese Nobility: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09) |
 | | vertical symbiosis, daimyo viscount, asymmetric dyarchy, kuge houses, nonsuccessor sons, bekkaku kanpeisha, daimyo descendants, big daimyo, present househead, five sekke, status congruity, genealogical prestige, genealogical orthodoxy, iemoto master, kazoku families, nonhereditary elite, kuge family, spouse takers, imperial kin, daimyo houses, shogunal house, status endogamy, blood continuity, positional succession, upper maids |
 | | As part of their westernizing reforms, the Meiji oligarchs merged the Kyoto court nobles ("kuge") and the feudal lords ("daimyo") into a single artistocratic class, explicitly based on the British peerage. |
 | | The "kazuko" or flowerly lineage served two functions: (1) to fill the non-elective upper chamber of the new parliament, and (2) to provide a social buffer between the revitalized Imperial Court and the rest of Japanese society. |
| www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0520076001?v=glance (968 words) |
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