Word: hisanaga
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1959-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...selection was made by Mom and Dad. but Japan's bubbly Princess Suga, 20-year-old sister of Prince Akihito, had no objections. Some time this fall, the imperial household announced, Suga will wed a childhood friend, gangly Hisanaga Shimazu, 25. bank clerk, scion of a blue-blooded family and a classmate of Akihito's at the Gakushuin (Peers' School). According to custom. Hisanaga had called on his future father-in-law, who will build the newlyweds a house and provide a $42,000 dowry. And what, asked newsmen, had the Emperor said? "He just asked...
| 1 |