Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 281
of their city. What has been the history of the presentMikados reign, thus far ? Mutsuhito was the second son of MikadoKomei Tenno. The succession is not determinedby the order of birth in the royal family, you willsee. The Mikado nominates his own successor.Mutsuhito was born November, 1S50, in… … THE OLD IMPERIAL CASTLE AT KIOTO. Mikado and the Great Council; but unimpor-tant questions go to the ministers. The Mikadois still an absolute monarch, but he has prom-ised an elective parliament, to be organized in1890. Does the Mikado still claim descent directfrom the gods? In 1867 his father…
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