See also:

• MIKADO (Japanese for " exalted gate ")

MIKADO (See also:

• JAPANESE

Japanese for " exalted See also:

• GATE

gate ")  , the poetical See also:

• TITLE (0. Fr. title, mod. titre, from Lat. titulus)

title associated by See also:

• FOREIGN

foreign countries with the See also:

• SOVEREIGN

sovereign of See also:

• JAPAN

Japan; the See also:

• JAPANESE

Japanese title, corresponding to " See also:

• EMPEROR (Fr. empereur, from the Lat. imperator)

emperor," is tenno, the See also:

• TERM

term kotei being used of his See also:

• FUNCTION

function in relation to See also:

• EXTERNAL

external affairs . By the constitution of 1889, the emperor of Japan transferred a large See also:

• PART

part of his former See also:

• POWERS, HIRAM (1805-1873)

powers as See also:

• ABSOLUTE (Lat. absolvere, to loose, set free)

absolute monarch to the representatives of the See also:

• PEOPLE

people, but as See also:

• HEAD (in 0. Eng. heafad; the word is common to Teutonic languages; cf. Dutch hoofd, Ger. Haupt, generally taken to be in origin connected with Lat. caput, Gr. KerbOvi7)
• HEAD, SIR EDMUND WALKER, BART
• HEAD, SIR FRANCIS BOND, BART

head of the See also:

• EMPIRE

empire-See also:

• MILAN
• MILAN (Ital. Milano, Ger. Mailand, anc. Mediolanum, q.v.)

MILAN 437 he appoints the ministers, declares See also:

• WAR
• WAR (O. Eng. werre, Fr. guerre, of Teutonic origin; cf. O.H.G. werran, to confound)

war, makes See also:

• PEACE
• PEACE, BREACH OF THE

peace and concludes See also:

• TREATIES

treaties, acting generally as a constitutional sovereign but with all the See also:

• PERSONAL

personal authority attaching to his See also:

• AUGUST (originally Sextilis)

august position . The See also:

• HISTORY

history of the mikados goes back to very See also:

• EARLY
• EARLY, JUBAL ANDERSON (1816-1894)

early times, but from 1600 to 1868 the real See also:

• POWER [WILLIAM GRATTAN] TYRONE (1797-1841)

power was in the hands of the shoguns, who nevertheless were in ceremonial theory always successively invested with their authority by the See also:

• MIKADO (Japanese for " exalted gate ")

mikado . The revolution of 1867 restored the real power into the mikado's hands .