Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan (269 page)

35.
Otabe, “Nii ten niiroku jiken, shub
sha wa dare ka,” pp. 76–77, 93. My analysis of the uprising is based largely on Otabe's essay. Hata Ikuhiko,
Hirohito tenn
itsutsu no ketsudan
(K
dansha, 1984), Yamada Akira,
Daigensui Sh
wa tenn
(Shin Nihon Shuppansha, 1994), Kido K
ichi's dairy, the interrogation of Kido by Henry R. Sackett, plus other sources cited below. One of the few studies in English on the mutiny is Shillony's
Revolt in Japan
.

36.
Yasumaru,
Kindai tenn
z
no keisei
, pp. 281–82.

37.
Hata,
Hirohito tenn
itsutsu no ketsudan
, p. 25, citing
Kido K
ichi kankei bunsho
, p. 106.

38.
Ibid., p. 26.

39.
Otabe, “N
ten n
roku jiken, shub
sha wa dare ka,” p. 77.

40.
Kido K
ichi nikki, j
, p. 464. “If I cannot ask your majesty's opinion directly can I query the lord keeper of the privy seal?” To this question too Hirohito replied no.