But in old Japan this title would've better fit the shogun, not the tenno, even though the tenno's blessing upon the shogun was a necessity.
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Title of the reigning Japanese monarch (male or female). The term, literally meaning the "heavenly sovereign," dates from the sixth or seventh century. ...