Re: Cants
| From: | Costentin Cornomorus <elemtilas@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, December 14, 2003, 20:08 |
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--- Andreas Johansson <andjo@...> wrote:
> That might be a be all well and good for a
> definition "empire" in the
> imperialistic sense, but use of the title
> "emperor" does not necessarily imply
> a such. Tokugawa Japan, for instance, can
> hardly be described as
> imperialistic; yet westerners have been
> perfectly happpy to render _tenno_
> as "emperor" (and for that matter, in older
> material, also _shogun_).
And besides, they still háve an emperor!
Padraic.
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