Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan (233 page)

46.
Japan Times and Mail
, Dec. 3 and 4, 1928.

47.
Nakajima,
Tenn
no daigawari to kokumin
, pp. 79–80.

48.
Japan Times and Mail
, Nov. 23, 1928.

49.
Yasumaru,
Kindai tenn
zono keisei
, pp. 23–24. The theory of Hirohito's deification was strengthened by the publication in 1928 of
Daij
sai no hongi
(
Cardinal principles of the great food offering ceremony
) by the ethnologist Origuchi Nobuo, who argued that the emperor has a divine nature because of his sacred marriage during the
daij
sai
.

50.
Sasaki,
Gendai tenn
sei no kigen to kin
, p. 91.

51.
Nakamura Masanori,
Nihon no rekishi 29, r
d
sha to n
min
(Sh
gakukan, 1976), p. 325; H
sei Daigaku
hara Shakai Mondai Kenky
jo, ed.,
Shakai, r
d
und
dai nenpy
, dai ikkan, 1858–1945
(R
d
Junp
sha, 1986), p. 278.