rescript

Boin selected the town based on a rescript of a 4th century letter from Emperor Constantine to the townspeople regarding a religious holiday.

As there is no motive for concealment, I am permitted to use them, and accordingly send you a rescript, simply omitting technical details of seamanship and supercargo.

The rescript, banned in 1948, calls on Japanese to sacrifice their lives for the emperor.

The US occupation authorities banned the rescript, believing it had fuelled prewar militarism.

The rescript was abolished after Japan’s defeat in World War II, when the emperor’s role in Japan was reduced to that of a ceremonial figurehead.