Above the Clouds
Subtitle: Status Culture of the Modern Japanese Nobility
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: March 27, 1995
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 430
ISBN-13: 9780520076020
Subjects: Social classes; Sociology; Japan; Anthropology - Cultural; Anthropology - General; Asia - General; Customs & Traditions; History : Asia - General; Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural; Social Science / Anthropology / General; Social Science : Customs & Traditions
First sentence: On May 15, 1947, some two hundred titled nobleman gathered in the imperial palace to hear words of farewell from His Majesty, who in the previous year had already renounced his "devine" status and assumed a human role.