Word: empresse
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...Southern side, facing a vast court yard, with the Sun Gate to the left (East) and the Moon Gate to the right (West). Within the hangar, Shishinden, near but slightly to the left and behind the Takamikura, stood a similar "Throne," the Michodai, "smaller by a tenth" - for the Empress. Pedastals and chairs were lacquered jet black...
Entered and sat the Empress.* The "People of Japan," personified by the solitary figure of Prime Minister Baron Giichi Tanaka, paced to the middle of the court yard, bowed low to the Son of Heaven, and awaited the Divine Word...
...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...
...hundred and fifty represented Japan's foremost news combine, the Osaka & Tokyo Asahi. President Murayama of the Asahi issued in magazine form a Coronation Supplement, with a color portrait of the Emperor and Empress. The former is reproduced on TIME'S cover...
...predecessor, the present Dowager Empress Sadako, was the first consort of a Japanese Emperor to have her own "throne." She did not, howevet, occupy it when her husband, Emperor Yoshihito, was enthroned in 1915 because she was enceinte. Yoshihito Tenno, although greatly beloved, developed an impediment of the mind which caused his son (the present Tenno) to be made Regent in 1921, for Yoshihito who died...