Part

 1 Primit|   its central figure. Every family in Japan claims descent
 2 Confuc|  the unit of society is the family, constituted on the system
 3 Confuc|    virtue. The Sage, in his family dialogues, speaks of visiting
 4 Confuc|     in Shantung, tombs of a family of provincial~nobles, who
 5 Confuc| collections of the imperial family, to the treasuries of Shinto
 6 Asuka |     reached Japan, the Soga family held the most prominent
 7 Asuka |  From this time onwards his family were hereditary ministers
 8 Asuka |    becomes thus a matter of family jealousies between the Sogas
 9 Asuka |    to the fall of the Taira family in 1186 A.D. This age is
10 Asuka | that branch of the Minamoto family who held the Shogunate during
11 Nara  | Tenji, who crushed the Soga family, consolidated the personal
12 Fujiwa|  ripened ascendency of that family at the accession of the
13 Fujiwa|  opportunity to the martial family of Minamoto, and their long
14 Fujiwa|  rivals for the throne.~The family of that imperial candidate
15 Kamaku|    Yoritomo of the Minamoto family at Kamakura, in 1186 A.D.,
16 Kamaku|   by the noble and powerful family of Minamoto at Kamakura,
17 Kamaku|    Yoritomo of the Minamoto family, who destroyed the Tairas.
18 Ashika| that branch of the Minamoto family who succeeded to the Shogunate.
19 Tokuga|   These owe their name to a family of artists who were appointed