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− | Japanese:尊王 | + | * ''Japanese'': 尊王 ''(Sonnou)'' or 勤皇 ''(Kinnou)'' |
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− | Sonnô means "Revere the Emperor".
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− | It usually used "Sonnô [[Jôi]]"(Revere the Emperor,Expel the Barbarians) as a political slogan in Bakumatsu.
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| + | ''Sonnô'' is a slogan that means "Revere the Emperor". |
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| + | It is typically paired with [[Joi|Jôi]] ("Sonnô Jôi" - Revere the Emperor, Expel the Barbarians) as a political slogan during the [[Bakumatsu Period]]. |
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| + | 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> |
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| + | 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]] |
| [[Category:Edo Period]] | | [[Category:Edo Period]] |
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