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Then the Emperor announced to the assembled dignitaries of the land that the name of his last offspring is Sachiko Hisa-No-Miya...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Baptism | 9/26/1927 | See Source »

Thus terminated the Japanese Imperial baptism, known as the Seventh Day Ceremonies. Forth with rode out of the palace precincts aged priests to report the name of Princess Hisa, as she will be known, to the Imperial Ancestors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Baptism | 9/26/1927 | See Source »

...left the dressing-room where a little Nipponese had gone in. Not until she reached Detroit last week was real attention paid this young woman by newsgatherers. Then the fact was broadcast that the Yum-Yum of the Messrs. Shubert's Mikado road company, was none other than Hisa Koike ("Eternal-Life Small-Lake"), 19, descendant of proud Samurai,f whose ambition vaults not only as high as grand opera but also beyond the roles to which Japanese prima donnas have always been limited in the Occident-Madame Butterfly, Madame Chrysantheme, Lena in La Princesse Jaune...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Charges | 10/11/1926 | See Source »

...Chess Club met in Thayer 1 last evening. Mr. Hisa demonstrated the workings of the Japanese game of chess and games like gobang...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Chess Club. | 3/18/1896 | See Source »

Michitaro Hisa '95 will address the Century Club at their dinner in New York tomorrow...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 3/4/1895 | See Source »

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