Word: daigo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Japanese have a maxim: "Just as there is but one sun in heaven, so there is but one emperor on earth." Six centuries ago the maxim was rudely shattered when rival feudal lords supported a "Southern Emperor" named Go-Daigo and a "Northern Emperor" named Kogon (both members of the imperial family). The issue was threshed out in a 50-year "War of the Chrysanthemums." Finally Go-Daigo's line gave up the sacred symbols of authority-jewel, mirror, sword-to Kogon's line. Since then, in the misty eye of Japanese history, the imperial descent has been...
Last week General Douglas MacArthur suddenly discovered that the War of the Chrysanthemums still smoldered. To the Allied Commander from one Hiromichi Kumazawa, self-styled "Emperor" and 19th direct lineal descendant of Go-Daigo, came a petition requesting a full and impartial investigation of his claim to be Japan's rightful sovereign. To the pretender's "secret hideout" went LIFE Correspondent Richard E. Lauterbach. His report...
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