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''Sonnô'' is a slogan that means "Revere the Emperor".
''Sonnô'' is a slogan that means "Revere the Emperor".
It is typically paired with [[Joi|Jôi]] ("Sonnô Jôi" - Revere the Emperor, Expel the Barbarians) as a political slogan during the [[Bakumatsu Period]].
It is typically paired with [[Joi|Jôi]] ("Sonnô Jôi" - Revere the Emperor, Expel the Barbarians) as a political slogan during the [[Bakumatsu Period]].
Some members of the ''sonnô'' movement, followers of [[Hirata Atsutane]], are known to have decapitated or otherwise vandalized statues of the [[Ashikaga shogunate|Ashikaga shoguns]], seeing the Ashikaga as having betrayed or otherwise wronged the emperor back in the 14th century.<ref>Conrad Schirokauer, David Lurie, and Suzanne Gay, A Brief History of Japanese Civilization, Wadsworth Cengage (2013), 165.</ref>
The term originates in the [[Spring and Autumn Annals]], as the Chinese ''zūnwáng rǎngyí''.<ref>Crossley, Pamela Kyle. ''A Translucent Mirror: History and Identity in Qing Imperial Ideology''. University of California Press, 1999, 252.</ref>
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[[Category:Bakumatsu]]
[[Category:Bakumatsu]]