Word: chichibu
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Their Majesties' fourth child was of national importance because the previous three have been girls (one has died). It was also of personal importance to two charming young people, Crown Prince Chichibu, the Emperor's eldest brother, and Crown Princess Setsuko. Although married for more than two years, they have been obliged by rigid etiquet to have no children, lest they should have a son discourteously ahead of the Emperor. Thus with the greatest national and most exquisitely personal regret it was learned that the babe born last week is another girl. She was at once presented with...
While inspecting the Citadel of Belgrade, H. R. H. Princess Chichibu of Japan found herself minus a costly, antique jeweled collar...
Next day the Chief of Police said: "I feel that Belgrade's reputation for honesty has been sustained. Within a few hours after her loss I had the pleasure of restoring to Princess Chichibu her jeweled collar. A local Belgrade photographer found it in the gutter and at once turned it in at our Central Police Station. As to the loss which Princess Olga sustained in the American Legation we are working on the theory that a kleptomaniac was to blame. The people of Belgrade are fundamentally honest...
Thus far the children of Their Majesties have been three daughters, one of whom has died. Japan's crown prince is therefore Prince Chichibu, eldest brother of the Emperor, but no allusion to this fact is ever made by the intensely loyal Japanese press. It is even widely held that the birth of a son to Prince Chichibu would be an intolerable affront to the Son of Heaven. Thus far Crown Princess Setsuko (daughter of onetime Japanese Ambassador to the U. S. Tsuneo Matsudaira * has remained childless, an object of Japanese sympathy and esteem. Without venturing a direct comment...
...Abode of Daughters of Joy," among the most sumptuous quarters in New Tokyo, and the first to be completely rebuilt. Not in the fire area was the smart residential district near the Imperial Palace and the Akasaka Palace (8) of Crown Prince Chichibu...