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| In modern usage "nation" or 'nation state" (see Kokka Shinto). In the Tokugawa period before the advent of nationalism it was used like kuni for the feudal domain of a daimyo, while the Confucian term tenka ('under heaven') was used for the whole country A Popular Dictionary of Shinto (Brian Bocking) | |||