↑ Kanʼichi Asakawa. The early institutional life of Japan: a study in the reform of 645 A.D.. Tokyo: Shueisha (1903), p. 25. "We purposely avoid, in spite of its wide usage in foreign literature, the misleading term Mikado. If it be not for the natural curiosity of the races, which always seeks something novel and loves to call foreign things by foreign names, it is hard to understand why this obsolete and ambiguous word should so sedulously be retained. It originally meant not only the Sovereign, but also his house, the court, and even the State, and its use in historical writings causes many difficulties which it is unnecessary to discuss here in detail. The native Japanese employ the term neither in speech nor in writing. It might as well be dismissed with great advantage from sober literature as it has been for the official documents."
↑ National Archives of Japan: Ryūkyū Chuzano ryoshisha tojogyoretsu, scroll illustrating procession of Ryūkyū emissary to Edo, 1710 (Hōei 7)
↑ Northeast Asia History Foundation: Korea-Japan relations citing Dongsarok by Jo Tae-eok et al
↑ Bowman, John Stewart. (2000). Columbia Chronologies of Asian History and Culture, p. 142; Titsingh, Issac. (1834). Annales des empereurs du japon, pp. 416–417.
↑ Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). " Kyōhō " Japan Encyclopedia, p. 584, p. 584, at Google Books; nb, Louis-Frédéric is pseudonym of Louis-Frédéric Nussbaum, see Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Authority File.
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↑ Brownlee, John S. (1999). Japanese Historians and the National Myths, p. 29
↑ Foreign Press Center. (1997), Japan: Eyes on the Country, Views of the 47 Prefectures, p. 127
↑ Adams, Thomas. Japanese Securities Markets: A Historical Survey, p. 11
