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 1 Intro |        was made a member of the Imperial Art Commission which was
 2 Intro |       if it were the destiny of imperial peoples to be conquered
 3 Range |        treasured specimens. The Imperial collection, the Shinto temples,
 4 Range |         who are attached to the Imperial court, and to grand monasteries
 5 Primit| clusters round the unity of the Imperial throne. We always say "We
 6 Primit|      the Sword form part of the Imperial insignia, handed on by the
 7 Confuc|       to the collections of the imperial family, to the treasuries
 8 Taoism|   ceremonial robe to receive an imperial representative - for his
 9 Taoism|        supreme sovereignty. The imperial person may always be described
10 Asuka |        with the sanction of the imperial name. This is the survival
11 Asuka |       in a kindlier spirit.~The imperial power, curtailed by oligarchic
12 Nara  |         immediate shadow of the imperial throne.~In India, too, there
13 Nara  |       caves. A landscape in the imperial collection at Nara, painted
14 Nara  |    under the Tâng dynasty.~This imperial treasure-house (Shosoin)
15 Fujiwa|   between two aspirants for the imperial throne in the middle of
16 Fujiwa|          and the Captain of the Imperial Guard found it impossible
17 Fujiwa|         both descended from the imperial loins, were necessarily
18 Fujiwa|      throne.~The family of that imperial candidate who was supported
19 Tokuga|       evolved. Kyoto, where the imperial seat remained, was on that
20 Meiji |        the revindication of the imperial power.~A significant dialogue
21 Meiji |        schools, was given by an imperial mandate, when all other
22 Vista |         in China a throne whose imperial occupant - alone amongst