天皇てんのう機き関かん説せつ

noun

theory of the Emperor as an organ of government

A pre-war constitutional theory that the Emperor is an organ of the state, not an absolute sovereign. Associated with scholar Minobe Tatsukichi and later suppressed.

• 天皇てんのう機き関かん説せつは、大だい日本にっぽん帝てい国こく憲けん法ぽう下かで天皇てんのうの地ち位いを説せつ明めいする学がく説せつの一ひとつだった。

  The theory of the Emperor as an organ of government was one of the doctrines explaining the Emperor's position under the Meiji Constitution.