Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan (201 page)

12.
Nezu,
Tenn
to Sh
washi
, p. 20.

13.
Tanaka Hiromi, “Sh
wa tenn
no tei
gaku,” pp. 101–2; and Tanaka Hiromi, “Nisshin, Nichi-Ro kaisenshi no hensan to Ogasawara Naganari (2),” in
Gunji shigaku
18, no. 4 (1983), pp. 43–44. Ogasawara was a prodigious literary creator of paragons of military virtue such as “Commander Hirose” of Japanese textbook fame and “T
g
Heihachir
the Great.”

14.
According to Ogasawara, “All his essays on politics are particularly deeply moving. His brightness is almost unbelievable…. Once, when Sugiura was giving a lecture on apothegems, he asked the crown prince which saying most impressed him and [Hirohito] answered: ‘Ten ni shifuku nashi' [Heaven has no self-interest].” Ogasawara Naganari, “Sessh
a no miya denka no gok
toku,”
Taiy
(Jan. 1, 1922).

15.
MNN
, pp. 21–23. Makino was shown the composition by Sugiura, and reproduced it in his diary entry of August 17, 1921. This is a rare example of an early piece by Hirohito, and also one of the relatively few instances in which he makes a reference to his own father. Another reference to his father can be found in the Honj
diary.

16.
Yasuda Hiroshi, “Kindai tenn
sei ni okeru kenryoku to ken'i—Taish
demokurashii-ki no k
satsu,” in
Bunka hy
ron
357 (Oct. 1990), p. 183.