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 | | On the other, however, that vocabulary could be invested multiply, by private entrepreneurs as much as by state ideologues. |
 | | Others were aware of the need to mollify external constituencies who might have a stake in antiquarian authenticity. |
 | | Borrowing from one’s neighbors, or gambling, would compromise the integrity of the ritual. In other words, while everybody could agree, or at least argue, that modern Japan was the realization of an ancient bequest, it was precisely in specifying the nature of the inheritance that disagreement was endemic. |
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