Word: fumimaro
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Married. Count Kocho Otani, 27, spiritual leader of Japan's 13,000,000 NishiHongwanji Buddhists; and Princess Yoshiko Tokudaiji, 19; by himself (no lesser churchman being deemed eligible); in Kyoto, Japan. Best man: Prince Fumimaro Konoe, president of the Japanese House of Peers. One hundred acolytes, 700 chanting priests, 20,000 communicants crowded the ceremony. At its conclusion the bride, wearing eleven kimonos, gave away 1,500,000 fans; the groom gave away 1,500,000 yen ($420,000). Wedding gifts: a castle from Nishi-Hongwanji followers, five kinds of fresh fish (harbingers of happiness) from Empress Nagako...
Saionji's Ace. Against such a dire emergency, Prince Saionji has for many years considered that he had up his Genro kimono sleeve a particularly effective card. This trump is His Highness Prince Fumimaro Konoye, the most promising young aristocrat in Japan, sympathetic toward parliamentary government, yet popular with the Navy and head of Japan's great fighting Fujiwara Clan. Legend makes His Highness a direct descendant of the most exalted Lesser Deity who was in attendance on the Sun Goddess when she created the Earth and begat Japan's present Imperial Family to rule it. History...
...Saito had just escorted to the White House the President of Japan's House of Peers, tall, fortyish Prince Fumimaro Konoye. who is in the U. S. as a "Goodwill Ambassador." Snapped Ambassador Saito: "The only thing I can imagine is that the President voluntarily told us he was going to Hawaii and expressed the wish to go to Japan. However, he said that would be impossible. That was every word that was said...