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Front: Sugawara Michizane (845-903), Japanese political figure and scholar
Michizane was born in Kyoto into a family of scholars. At the age of 11 he
was already composing Chinese style poetry. Michizane served in the imperial
court until he fell into disfavor and was exiled. After his death at the age of
59, he was deified as Tenjin, the patron of scholarship and literature.
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Front: Wakeno Kiyomaro (733-799)
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Japan, situated off the east coast of asia, abolished Shogunate and established a
parliamentary form of government in the 1850's. Became a constitutional monarchy
after WWII. For a more detailed
country profile, see CIA World Factbook on Japan.
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