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 | | The Ashikaga, Takeda, and Tokugawa families all made claims to the Genji lineage. |
 | | Genji monogatari: "Tale of Genji," Japan's first great novel and arguably its greatest pre-modern literary work, written in the early eleventh century by Murasaki Shikibu. |
 | | The Meiji Restoration (Meiji ishin) followed the collapse of the Tokugawa shogunate (1603–1868; the 15th and last shogun, Tokugawa Yoshinobu, abdicated in X/1867, while Imperial rule was officially declared on I/3/1868), representing the Emperor's return to supremacy and the beginning of long-term political and social reformation for the modernization of Japan. |
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