Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan (182 page)

50.
Suzuki Masayuki,
Kindai no tenn
: Iwanami bukkuretto shiriizu, Nihon kindaishi 13
(Iwanami Shoten, 1992), p. 44.

51.
Yoshida, pp. 223–24.

52.
Ibid., p. 224.

53.
That year Hirohito received Japan's highest award, the Grand Order of the Chrysanthemum, in the form of a little button. When Chichibu saw Hirohito in his special uniform with the button on it, he was jealous and said to him, “You're not that important. You don't even have the Order of the Golden Kite or a medal from a foreign country.” The gentle rivalry and tension between the brothers would continue into their adulthood. See Togashi Junji, “Tenn
hakusho: shirarezaru heika,” p. 88.

54.
Yasuda Hiroshi, “Kindai tenn
sei ni okeru kenryoku to ken'i: Taish
demokurashii-ki no k
satsu,” in
Bunka hy
ron
, No. 357 (Oct. 1990), p. 179.

55.
Yasuda,
tenn
no seijishi
, p. 159.

56.
Ibid., pp. 164–65.

57.
Suzuki Masayuki,
K
shitsu seido: Meiji kara sengo made
(Iwanami Shinsho, No. 289, 1993), p. 138; Mitani Taichir
,
Kindai Nihon no sens
to seiji
(Iwanami Shoten, 1997), p. 43.

58.
Mitani Taichir
, “Taish
demokurashii to Washinton taisei, 1915–1930,” in Hosoya Chihiro, ed.,
Nichi-Bei kankei ts
shi
(Tokyo Daigaku Shuppankai, 1995), p. 78.