Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan (183 page)

59.
Hosaka,
Chichibu no miya to Sh
wa tenn
, p. 46.

60.
Yamaga Sok
's
Ch
k
jijitsu
[True facts of the central realm], printed in 1669, extolled Shinto teachings, asserted the innate superiority of the Japanese people, and claimed that Japan's early emperors had realized an ideal government. The other book was Miyake Kanran's
Ch
k
kangen
. Notions of reverence for the Imperial House permeated both works. See
Takamatsu no miya Nobuhito
, p. 84.

61.
Uchikawa Yoshimi et al.,
Taish
ny
su jiten, dai ikkan
(Mainichi Komyunik
shion Shuppan Jigy
bu, 1986), p. 621.

62.
Asahi shinbun
, Sept. 20, 1912, cited in
Taish
ny
su jiten
, p. 629.

63.
Taish
ny
su jiten, dai ikkan
, p. 620; Carol Gluck,
Japan's Modern Myths: Ideology in the Late Meiji Period
(Princeton University Press, 1985), p. 221.