Word: emperor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Pope Pius XI is not held more sanctified by Roman Catholics than is the Emperor Hirohito by pious Japanese. His Holiness claims to be no more than the divinely delegated and elected viceregent of Christ. His Majesty claims to be divinely begotten descendant of Japan's Sun Goddess, and is therefore sanctified in his own right...
...rank is concerned there is only one other reigning emperor worthy of the name, George V. He is Emperor only of India and King of the rest of his Realm. The Japanese Reigning House is purely Imperial, with no inferior title of Royalty...
...Japanese title of the Emperor is Tenno, an untranslatable word which might be paraphrased, "His Transcendant Majesty, the Emperor Supreme." Gladly Japan poured out the equivalent of a million dollars a day for 16 days to enthrone "The Son of Heaven...
...from the ground a radiance so transcendant that impious beholders were blinded and driven mad. Since then prudent Japanese have taken no liberties with the Divine Mirror, originally inherited by the first Tenno Jimmu from his great-great-grandmother, Sun Goddess Omaterosu O-Mikami, who established him as the Emperor of Japan, over which his descendants have reigned ever since (2,588 years...
Although the "Enthronement" was now complete - insofar as Occidentals understand that idea - there would be several more days of pomp, during which the Tenno would personally inform the Sun Goddess what had occurred and offer her with filial piety the sacred rice (boiled). Finally, with hearts uplifted and pure, Emperor and Empress will participate in three joyous Grand Banquets, visit the Shrines of the Imperial Ancestors, and lastly open the national Chrysanthemum Party, gayest fête of the Japanese year...