Bilih-bilih sasampun Restorasi Meiji duk warsa 1868, ritatkala raja kalinggihang pinaka panguasa ring birokrasi politik, kuasa punika majanten alit kasanding ring oligarki Meiji.
in 1868, when the emperor was placed back in the center of the political bureaucracy, the throne itself had very little power vis-à-vis the Meiji oligarchy