Word: akihito
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Bronze gongs throbbed softly and with stiff rustling of robes the Shinto priests bowed low to the ground, for in the confines of the Imperial Palace in Tokyo, Tsugu-no-Miya Akihito, Crown Prince of Japan, last week was worshipping his illustrious ancestors. Utterly oblivious to the solemnity of the occasion was Tsugu-no-Miya Akihito, for His Celestial Highness last week was just three months old, a little round buttonhead of a baby, swaddled and lying on a brocaded pillow in the arms of his nurse. In solemn procession, Prince, pillow and nurse went first to the Koreiden shrine...
Emerging, the Grand Chamberlain announced that the name was indeed Akihito Tsugu no Miya. The Chief Ritualist departed with seemly haste to make this known to the Sun Goddess and other ancestors of the Imperial House. Not until 11 a. m. was the name entered in the register of the Imperial Household by the Minister of the Imperial Household. Not until it had been so entered was word flashed to Japanese cruisers in Tokyo bay to blaze away a 21 gun* salute while Tokyo sirens screamed and the whole metropolis joined in a thrice-repeated shout of Banzai...
...foreigners' fancy. All Japanese Princes have given names ending in hito (benevolent male) and the no Miya with which they are all tagged means "Prince of." They are Prince of what comes before the no Miya, as Edward is Prince of Wales. Thus the babe christened last week Akihito Tsugu no Miya is "Aki the benevolent Male, Prince of Tsugu" Aki means "Enlightened." Tsugu identifies the babe as Crown Prince...