Editing Privy seal (section)

==Privy Seal of Japan==
[[Image:Gyoji.svg|thumb|180px|Privy seal of Japan (天皇御璽)]]
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The [[Privy Seal of Japan]] is the official seal of the [[Emperor of Japan]]. While it is printed on many state documents, it is separate from the [[State Seal of Japan]]. The Privy Seal was made from copper beginning in the [[Nara period]]. After the [[Meiji Restoration]], a new seal was made from stone in 1868. The present seal was made from gold in 1874.

The Seal has been kept by the [[Chamberlain of Japan]] since 1945, when the office of [[Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal of Japan|Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal]] was abolished. The Lord Keeper was a personal adviser to the Emperor, a position adapted in 1885 from the earlier post of ''[[Naidaijin]]''.