Tenno

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Japanese: 天皇(tennô)

Other titles: 内裏(dairi), 天子(tenshi)

The hereditary monarch of Japan who is now commonly referred to in English as the emperor. Ideally, the tennô is the highest Shinto priest in Japan[1].

Notes

  1. The Cambridge History of Japan