Role of The Emperor in Meiji Japan Japan is a society whose culture is steeped in the traditions and symbols of the past: Mt. Fuji, the tea ceremony, and the sacred objects of nature revered in Shintoism. Two of the most important traditions and symbols in Japan; the Emperor and Confucianism have endured through Shogunates, restorations of imperial rule, and up to present day. The leaders of the Meiji Restoration used these traditions to gain …showed first 75 words of 3761 total…

…showed last 75 words of 3761 total…Past and Present (Tokyo: Tuttle Publishing, 1987) 66. Footnote36 Peter Duus, The Rise of Modern Japan (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1976) 117. Footnote37 Louis Allen, Japan the Years of Triumph (London: Purnell and Sons, 1971) 41. Footnote38 Peter Duus, The Rise of Modern Japan (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1976) 84. Footnote39 Ibid., 119. Footnote40 Ibid., 88. Footnote41 Ibid., 94-95. Footnote42 Edwin O. Reischauer, Japan Past and Present (Tokyo: Tuttle Publishing, 1987) 166. Footnote43 Ibid., 167. Footnote44 Ibid., 13. Footnote45 Stephen Large, The Japanese Constitutional of 1889 (London: Suntory-Toyota International Centre, 1989) 20.