Japanese Nobility
The Kazoku (華族?, literally "flowery/illustrious lineage") was the hereditary peerage of the Empire of Japan that existed between 1869 and 1947.
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“A pragmatic race, the Japanese appear to have decided long ago that the only reason for drinking alcohol is to become intoxicated and therefore drink only when they wish to be drunk.
So I went out into the night and the neon and let the crowd pull me along, walking blind, willing myself to be just a segment of that mass organism, just one more drifting chip of consciousness under the geodesics.”
—William Gibson (b. 1948)
“And nobility will not be able to help you with your love; Love does not know how to cede to ancestral images.”
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