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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I still have hopes that my parents are alive, searching for me in Tenshin (ph).
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"It's been many years since I've been at the Tenshin Shoden Katori," Nicholas said.
The Miko Lustbader, Eric 1984
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Tenshin, "kami of the descent," chieftains of expedition from Kyushu
A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era Dairoku Kikuchi 1886
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All the chieftains who led the expedition from Kyushu were subsequently designated Tenshin -- a term which may be conveniently rendered "Kami of the descent" -- and all those who, like Nigihayahi, had previously been in occupation of the country, were styled kum-tsu-Kami, or "territorial Kami."
A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era Dairoku Kikuchi 1886
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The next step taken was to assemble the ministers under a patriarchal tree, and, in the presence of the Emperor, the Empress Dowager, and the Prince Imperial, to pronounce, in the names of the Kami of heaven and the Kami of earth -- the Tenshin and the Chigi -- a solemn imprecation on rulers who attempted double-hearted methods of government, and on vassals guilty of treachery in the service of their sovereign.
A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era Dairoku Kikuchi 1886
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Tenshin-ryo Children's Home after a community relations project (COMREL).
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'Tenshin, Jocko! "cried he, patting his shoulder, to which his friend the monkey at once jumped from the tree; and then, turning to my sister, he said, with a roguish look in his black eyes," Oi've brought ye a little prisint, Miss Jenny, ez Oi hopes ez how ye'll be afther acceptin'. "
Young Tom Bowling The Boys of the British Navy John B. [Illustrator] Greene
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