 | Japan - 1922 - 342 pages
...pp. 17,360-61, 372-7ltd Hirobunii, writing in his Commentaries on the Constitution in 1889, said, " The Sacred Throne was established at the time when...heavens and the earth became separated. The Emperor is Heaven descended, divine and sacred ; He is preeminent above all His subjects. He must be reverenced... | |
 | Hirobumi Itō - Constitutional history - 1889 - 312 pages
...Law are explanatory the one of the other. tk ARTICLE III. The Emperor is sacred and inviolable. - " The Sacred Throne was established at the time when the heavens and the earth became separated" (Kojiki). The Emperor is Heaven-descended, divine and sacred ; He is preeminent above all His subjects.... | |
 | William Thomas Stead - Europe - 1904 - 794 pages
...preserved at the same time the most unbroken continuity of dynasty that the world has witnessed. " The Sacred Throne was established at the time when the heavens and the earth became separated." The first principle of the Constitution is that " the Empire of Japan shall to the end of time identify... | |
 | Alfred Stead - Industries - 1904 - 774 pages
...present clause and Article I. of the Imperial House Law are explanatory the one of the other. 3. ' The Sacred Throne was established at the time when the heavens and the earth became separated ' (Kojiki). The Emperor is Heaven-descended, divine and sacred ; he is pre-eminent above all his subjects.... | |
 | Amos Shartle Hershey, Susanne Wilcox Hershey - Japan - 1919 - 412 pages
...peninsula, or whether we proclaim the island of Kiushiu as the source of the Japanese race." f'The Sacred Throne was established at the time when the Heavens and the Earth became separated (Kojiki). The Emperor is Heaven-descended, divine and sacred. . . . He must be reverenced and is inviolable."... | |
 | Daniel Clarence Holtom - Japan - 1922 - 412 pages
...Tokyo, 1920;, p. 247. ltd Hirobumi, writing in his Commentaries on the Constitution in 1889, said, "The Sacred Throne was established at the time when...heavens and the earth became separated. The Emperor is Heaven descended, divine and sacred ; He is preeminent above all His subjects. He must be reverenced... | |
 | Şerif Mardin - History - 1994 - 312 pages
...1990: p. 79. 45 It's (1906: p. 7) official commentary on Article 3 supplies its cosmologica! grounding: "the sacred throne was established at the time when the heavens and the earth became separated [Kqjiki]." 46 Akita 1967: p. 61. 47 Gluck 1985: pp. 42-72. ki merchants, supported by craftsmen, who... | |
 | David John Lu - History - 1997 - 420 pages
...fundamental basis of the present Constitution. . . . ARTICLE III. The Emperor is sacred and inviolable. "The Sacred Throne was established at the time when the heavens and the earth became separated" (Kojiki). The Emperor is Heaven-descended, divine and sacred; he is pre-eminent above all his subjects.... | |
 | John S. Brownlee - History - 1999 - 272 pages
...he came down hard in favour of absolute sanctity: Article III The Emperor is sacred and inviolable The Sacred Throne was established at the time when the heavens and the earth became separated.' (Kojiki) The Emperor is Heaven-descended, divine, and sacred; He is pre-eminent above all his subjects.... | |
 | John W. Dower - History - 1999 - 700 pages
...definitive "Commentaries," which were issued simultaneously with the promulgation of the constitution: The Sacred Throne was established at the time when the heavens and earth became separated (Kojiki). The Emperor is Heaven-descended, divine and sacred. He is pre-eminent... | |
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The Sacred Throne was established at the time when the heavens and the earth became separated. The Emperor is Heaven-descended, divine and sacred; He is pre-eminent above all His subjects. He must be reverenced and is inviolable. He has, indeed, to pay... 
