Word: emperors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first day of every Japanese year, while the sun is rising, ten poems are read as pompously as possible to the Son of Heaven, His Imperial Majesty the Emperor Hirohito, 124th lineal descendant of the Sun Goddess...
...usual, the sublime Emperor himself will write a tanka, but his will not be entered in the competition. Poems must be in by Dec. 16, will be judged at lightning speed by a competent corps of metrical experts, and the winning ten read at break of the New Year...
Greatest, perhaps, of tanka turners was Kamo Mabuchi (1697-1769), who claimed to be descended from the divine Three-Legged Crow which guided the first Japanese emperor, Jimmu, in all his conquests. Crow Scion Mabuchi credited whatever evils befell Japan to her contact with "debased Chinese learning." His greatest pupil, Motoori Norinaga (1730-1801) wrote perhaps the most popular and typical of tankas...
...seized it, extracted from it its advantages of education, social prestige, training in worldly affairs, then went his own picaresque way down the primrose path. At 18 he had already tasted jail because of a "dormitory scandal." Sent on a mission to Constantinople, he became emperor of the island of Corfu, returned to Venice as a gentleman of leisure, enjoyed a nun as his mistress, ran foul of the authorities for selling books on sorcery and was imprisoned in the "Leads" (il Piombi), famed Venetian jail so called because it was in the garret of the Ducal Palace, whose roof...
...Faust at the Court of the Emperor", Professor Walz, Sever...