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81.
Ihara Yoriaki,
Z
ho k
shitsu jiten
(Toyamab
, 1938), p. 45.

82.
During the 1930s “imperial family members accounted for 9 out of 134
army generals and 3 out of 77 navy admirals. Of this number, 5 of 17 field marshals and 3 of 11 fleet admirals were members of the imperial family. Ten military councillors were appointed from the imperial family, including one from the Korean Imperial House.” See Sakamoto Y
ichi, “K
zoku gunjin no tanj
: kindai tenn
sei no kakuritsu to k
zoku no gunjika,” in Iwai Tadakuma, ed.,
Kindai Nihon shakai to tenn
sei
(Kashiwa Shob
, 1988), pp. 230–31.

83.
Fujiwara Akira, “'Tenn
no guntai' no rekishi to honshitsu,” in
Kikan sens
sekinin kenky
, No. 11 (Spring 1996), p. 65.

84.
Yamato
was an ancient name for a clan (one of many) that by dint of martial prowess established the first state in ancient Japan.

85.
Asano Kazuo, “Taish
-ki ni okeru rikugun sh
k
no shakai ninshiki to rikugun no seishin ky
iku:
Kaik
sha kiji
no ronsetsu kiji no bunseki,” in Nakamura Katsunori, ed.,
Kindai Nihon seiji no shos
: jidai ni yoru tenkai to k
satsu
(Kei
Ts
shin, 1989), p. 447.