Word: chrysanthemumed
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...divinity in 1946. Not only was the engagement "a triumph of youth and love." said Foreign Minister Aiichiro Fujiyama, it had "shattered court conventions." "The prince," said the Japan Times, "has set a seal on the democratization of Japan." For Akihito. who has long rebelled against living behind a "chrysanthemum curtain," there will be other seals to set. When he was only three, he was, as tradition decreed, taken away from his parents and sent to live in a palace of his own. In the two-story palace now abuilding for him and his princess, at a cost...
...heard the piercing wails of ancient reed pipes and flutes. Priests in multicolored robes raised high their offerings-bean cake, teal ducks, brightly polished apples, flasks of rice wine. A special envoy of Emperor Hirohito bore a green, silk-covered chest emblazoned in gold with the Imperial 16-petal chrysanthemum seal. The celebration's chief speaker, Kashihara's Mayor Saburo Yoshikawa, 41, who has exchanged his Japanese Imperial General Staff major's uniform for white gloves and morning coat, was in excellent form. "It is only human nature to love one's country," he cried...
...professor would merely tip his brown fedora, whatever one did, and quietly amble on. Sometimes he would ride to the college by bus and crowded electric tram. But if he happened to be late, he would occasionally pull up in an imperial limousine with the Emperor's chrysanthemum crest on the door. Furthermore, there was the problem of knowing how to address him. The new professor was none other than Prince Takahito Mikasa, 39, brother of the Emperor, and the only prince of the royal blood ever to teach in a classroom...
...signs along the road; my wife sees all the flowers. Why am I so blind as to think a petunia and a nasturtium look alike, and she so blind that she reads 'I am not rich' as 'I am now rich?' . . . When I call a chrysanthemum a gardenia, just call it ignorance, and not evidence of a repressed destructive wish toward mums, mummy, mammy, mommy and mother...
Traditionally, generals collect swords, and Ike's trophy collection is no exception.* There are the famed "Crusaders' Sword," which the city of London presented to General Eisenhower at the London Guildhall; an ancient Japanese sword with the imperial chrysanthemum on the scabbard, a gift of the men of the ist Cavalry Division; the jewel-encrusted, $300.000 sword of Wilhelmina, from The Netherlands; Marshal Zhukov's personal dagger; and ceremonial swords and daggers from a dozen other countries...