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adoption of son-in-law adoptive father adoptor allow adoption altar Amaterasu anniversary Article 860 blood branch Buddhist Butsudan cenotaphs ceremony Civil Code clan-god clan-name Confucius consent Constitution custom daughter death descendants dissolution of adoption dread of ghosts duty Emperor Emperor Jimmu Empire Empire of Japan enter another house exist extinct Festival Day feudal Fustel de Coulanges graves ground of divorce head headship high officials honour house-daughter house-head house-headship Imperial Ancestors Imperial Marriage Japan Jimmu Tennō Kabane Kamidana Kashiko Dokoro Katoku kinsmen Kotoni Kwō Kwōrei Law of Registration legal heir legal presumptive heir male issue marry Mencius muko-yōshi object of inheritance offering origin of Ancestor-worship parents person present provides rule sacra sacred Sacrifice-days sacrifices sakaki-tree saké Sanctuary seventh-day shelf Shinto Shintoists small clan spirits succession Taihō Taiho Code takes place Temple tion Tokugawa Shogunate uji-gami uji-no-kami usually worship of ancestors worship of Imperial
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Page 37 - Meiji, a fundamental law of State, to exhibit the principles, by which We are to be guided in Our conduct, and to point out to what Our descendants and Our subjects and their descendants are forever to conform.
Page 36 - The Empire of Japan shall be reigned over and governed by a line of Emperors unbroken for ages eternal.
Page 37 - The rights of sovereignty of the State, We have inherited from Our Ancestors, and We shall bequeath them to Our descendants. Neither We nor they shall in future fail to wield them, in accordance with the provisions of the Constitution hereby granted.
Page 38 - In consideration of the progressive tendency of the course of human affairs and in parallel with the advance of civilization, We deem it expedient, in order to give clearness and distinctness to the instructions bequeathed by the Imperial Founder of Our House and by Our other Imperial Ancestors, to establish fundamental laws formulated into express provisions of law.
Page 39 - X. Upon the demise of the Emperor, the Imperial heir shall ascend the Throne and shall acquire the Divine Treasures of the Imperial Ancestors.
Page 48 - There are three things which are unfilial, and to have no posterity is the greatest of them.
Page 37 - The Imperial Founder of Our House and Our other Imperial Ancestors, by the help and support of the forefathers of Our subjects, laid the foundation of Our Empire upon a basis, which is to last forever.
Page 37 - Having, by virtue of the glories of Our Ancestors, ascended the throne of a lineal succession unbroken for ages eternal; desiring to promote the welfare of, and to give development to, the moral and intellectual faculties of Our beloved subjects, the very same that have been...
Page 13 - In the centre of this sacred shelf is placed a taima, or o-nusa (great offering), which is a part of the offerings made to the Daijingu of Ise or the temple dedicated to Amaterasu Omi-Kami, the First Imperial Ancestor. The Taima is distributed from the temple of Ise...
Page 54 - Sterility. 2. Adultery. 3- Disobedience to father-in-law or mother-in-law. 4. Loquacity. 5. Larceny. 6. Jealousy. 7. Bad disease. If any of these grounds exist, the wife may be abandoned, the husband signing the necessary deed which must be countersigned by the nearest ascendants. If any of these persons cannot write, the mark of the thumb may be made in place of signature. The enumeration of the causes of divorce shows plainly that the object of marriage was the perpetuation of worship. The reason...