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Word: kashikodokoro (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...attendants worked on her hair, turning the modern bob into the high coiffure that Japanese princesses wore back in the Middle Ages. They clothed her in the juni-hitoe, the "twelve-layered garment" of red, lavender, blue, green and white silk and brocade. Then they took her to the Kashikodokoro, the "awe-inspiring place" that houses the facsimile of the Sacred Mirror, one of the three symbols of the imperial office (the others: the Sacred Jewel, the Sacred Sword). There, promptly at 10:01, "the Ceremony Before the Great Ancestors" began...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: The Prince Takes a Bride | 4/20/1959 | See Source »

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