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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Famous quotes containing the words japanese and/or nobility:
“I will be all things to you. Father, mother, husband, counselor, Japanese bartender.”
—Mae West, U.S. screenwriter, W.C. Fields, and Edward Cline. Cuthbert Twillie (W.C. Fields)
“There may be as much nobility in being last as in being first, because the two positions are equally necessary in the world, the one to complement the other.”
—José Ortega Y Gasset (1883–1955)