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Savants of Japan trace Imperial Poem Reading through 1,000 years of vicissitudes fascinating to explore. The present Emperor is the 124th in direct line and the major crises of Imperial Poem Reading may be said to have been weathered in the reigns of the 62nd, the 83rd, the 103rd and the 122nd. It was Emperor Meiji, grandfather of the present Emperor, who dealt masterfully with the insurgence of Japanese commoners when they vigorously although reverently beseeched that Imperial Poem Reading should depart from the immemorial tradition that no poems were ever read to the Son of Heaven except those...
After meditating upon this for less than a fortnight, the exceedingly quick-minded and bold Emperor issued on Jan. 12, 1874 the Imperial Ordinance upon which is based today the treasured right of every Japanese, without distinction of race, creed or sex, to submit each year to the Poetry Bureau of the Imperial Household Ministry a tanka of 31 syllables. The subject of the nationwide competition this year was Kaijo Kumo Tooshi or "Clouds Far Over...
...Princesses of the Blood twice, and the Empress' poem three times. The poem composed by His Imperial Majesty in person was loudly, deeply and sonorously intoned once, twice, thrice, four times and yet again, in keeping with the dignity and divinity of the Son of Heaven. The Emperor's divine poem on this year's set theme may be translated thus...
Final Count. Although the reading of commoners' poems to the Emperor is about as near democracy as the Empire ever gets, Japanese election returns were not utterly devoid of meaning. The dominant militarists remained Japan's actual rulers last week, but the final count showed that the Minseito Party, favored by the Government, had ousted the strong Seiyukai Party from first place. Notably President Kisaburo Suzuki of the Seiyukai Party himself failed to win his old seat. In all, the Minseito won 205 seats and the Seiyukai 174. This meant no more and no less than that, when...
Products of Dominions & Colonies praised by the King-Emperor included Jamaican eggplant, Irish bacon, Rhodesian tobacco, Kenya coffee, Australian butter and sealskin slippers from New Zealand, of which His Majesty said, accepting a pair, "I think they will be very warm, comfortable and useful. All my brothers have gloves of sealskin...