Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan (195 page)

32.
Shiratori Kurakichi,
Kokushi, dai ikkan
(n.p., 1914), pp. 6–7. I am indebted to Professor Tokoro for a copy of volume 1.

33.
Iwai Tadakuma,
Meiji tenn
“taitei” densetsu
(Sanseid
, 1997), p. 47.

34.
Shiratori,
Kokushi, dai ikkan,
p. 26; cited in Tokoro, p. 134.

35.
Shiratori,
Kokushi, dai ikkan
, p. 28.

36.
In 1928–29, Shiratori acknowledged indirectly that the power of myth to legitimate the political order had weakened, and the national ideology had to be reformulated to place it on a more rational basis. See his lectures published in the organ of the Navy Officers Association: “Nihon minzoku no keit
,”
Y
sh
15, no. 178 (Sept. 1928), and “K
d
ni tsuite,”
Yush
16, no. 190 (Sept. 1929).

37.
Tokoro, “Sh
wa tenn
ga mananda ‘kokushi' ky
kasho,” p. 140.

38.
Ibid., p. 136.

39.
H. Paul Varley, “Nanbokucho seijun ron,” in
Kodansha Encyclopedia of Japan,
vol. 5 (Kodansha Ltd., 1983), pp. 323–24.

40.
Tokoro, “Sh
wa tenn
ga mananda ‘kokushi' ky
kasho.”