Word: imperiale
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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During the war he served as a lieutenant in the Mecklenburg Dragoons, but in the spring of 1917 was transferred to diplomatic duty as representative of the Wilhelmstrasse (German Foreign Office) at general headquarters and later represented the Chancellor on the Eastern front, where he made himself so thoroughly unpopular...
Upon a litter lay Empress Nagako. Erect and stern, Emperor Hirohito surveyed the scene before him. To one side court bards chanted a portion of the classics in a low tone. The great of the Empire surrounded the Imperial group. In it was Premier Güchi Tanaka, clad immaculately in...
The centre of this solemn group was a pinkish-brown princess, recently born to their Imperial Majesties of Japan (TIME, Sept. 19). Her only sister, Princess Shigeko Teru-No-Miya, 21 months, steadied and restrained by a nurse's hand, gazed wonderingly on as the newest Imperial baby, yelping, was...
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.
*The ideographs representing the words sachiko and hisa mean "heavenly" and "long-enduring," and may be translated as Steadfast Helper, Eternal Happiness or Ever Benign. No-Miya denotes Imperial rank, such as Royal or Imperial Highness in the Occident.