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Imperial Court in Kyoto was the nominal ruling government of Japan since 794 until the Meiji Era, in which the court was moved to Tokyo and was integrated into the Meiji government.

Since Minamoto no Yoritomo launched the shogunate, the true power had been in the hand of the Shoguns, who were mistaken several times as the Emperors of Japan by the Chinese government.

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	The acceptable imperial wives, brides for an emperor and for a crown prince, were even legislated into the Meiji-era imperial house laws, which stipulated that daughters of Sekke (the five main branches of the higher Fujiwara) and daughters of the imperial clan itself were primarily acceptable brides.
	A scion of the Fushimi house succeeded to the Kan'in house in 1884.
	One, Empress Gemmei, was the widow of a crown prince and a princess of the blood imperial.

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