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Togo, Heihachiro, Count (created '07), Admiral of Fleet, Member of Board of Marshals & Fleet Admirals, Order of Merit (Br.), 1st Class Golden Kite and Grand Order of Chrysanthemum; born 1847, a son of petty retainer of the Lord of Kagoshima. He commenced sailor's career at 16 and at 21 first came under fire, in fighting with the late Enomoto's Kwaiten; studied in England, '71-73; in the Japan-China War commanded the cruiser Naniwa and sank the Chinese transport Kowsing, a British steamer flying the British flag (see p. 39); Rear-Admiral after...
...Tokyo in the Phoenix Hall of the Imperial Palace, the Son of Heaven collared King Prajadhipok with the Grand Order of the Chrysanthemum with Collar. Queen Rambai received from His Imperial Majesty the Order of the Sacred Crown First Class, and from Her Imperial Majesty a symbolic Japanese doll richly bedight. Neither Queen nor Empress has ever had a son. Sorrow unites them...
Surprise, pleasure at discovering that any Japanese is so Occidentally pretty, so Parisianly chic, was the warm reaction of most U. S. citizens last week to Princess Kikuko (Chrysanthemum...
Shakespeare's Juliet was a practical, intriguing chit. What tickled Manhattan most about Princess Chrysanthemum was the story of how she got her little Paris suits and gowns and hats. On the recent official visit of Their Royal Highnesses in France, representatives of the big Paris houses called obsequiously, begged for the honor of creating costumes pour son Altesse, expected to charge top prices, for the Japanese Imperial Family is known to be vastly rich...
...Imperial house was in abeyance), sailed from Yokohama last week on a globe circling honeymoon. In London H. I. H. will repay the visit to Japan of H. R. H. Prince Henry (TIME, May 13), and in Madrid grave, bespectacled Prince Takamatsu will pin the gorgeous Order of the Chrysanthemum ("Garter of Japan'') on sporting King Alfonso XIII of Spain...