Word: hirohito
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Since His Majesty is the 124th lineal descendant of the Sun Goddess Amaterasu-0-Mikami, such appeals are regarded as a deadly sacrilege and sin. Nonetheless last week, when Emperor Hirohito rode out to open Parliament, a burly farmer from Saitama Province burst through the cordon of Imperial police and groveled sinfully before the Son of Heaven...
Presently, as the State Coach clattered into Parliament Square and drew up, Emperor Hirohito stepped nimbly down, as though nothing had happened, and was received by members of the Kizokuin (House of Peers) and the Shugiin (Commons), standing at stiff attention in the open air. Soon, beneath the vault of Heaven, the Son of Heaven pronounced in high, piercing, rapid syllables the traditional Four Sentences, opening Parliament...
Twenty millions of dollars have been spent to enable His Majesty the Tenno Hirohito to assume, through weeks of gorgeous pageantry, his full imperial station (TIME, Nov. 12, 19). Though the Emperor of Japan has no crown, the pageant was equivalent to a coronation. A concluding event last week was a review in Tokyo Bay of the Japanese Grand Fleet by the Emperor and Empress. Conspicuously in the Imperial suite stood Admiral Togo, great, venerable, famed. Proudly the small spectacled Tenno, whom Japanese adore as the Son of Heaven, surveyed the long, grim, double file of his grey war boats...
...strong drink to the Sun Goddess, partaking with her of the food and Sake. On succeeding days three grand banquets were held at which five of the most noble ladies of Japan performed symbolic ritual dances which each Tenno gazes upon once. Followed an imperial pilgrimage by Emperor Hirohito and Empress Nagako to the tombs and shrines of His Majesty's 123 imperial ancestors. Finally Their Majesties returned to Tokyo. There a military pageant and the review of the Grand Fleet preceded a joyous celebration and chrysanthemum party. Now begins the divine reign of the Tenno Hirohito which...
...Hirohito Tenno would now speak to the people the solemnest words of his reign. Augustly he arose and stood with the baton upraised (see Cover&). Then in very loud and ringing tones he cried: "Our Heavenly and imperial ancestors in accordance with the Heavenly truths, created an empire based on foundations immutable for all ages, and left behind them a throne destined for all eternity to be occupied by their lineal descendants. By the grace of the spirits of our ancestors this great heritage has devolved on us. We hereby perform the ceremony of enthronement with the sacred symbols...