Word: kimono
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...resignation, the Emperor summoned to his seaside resort Marquis Koichi Kido, his new Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal, traditional adviser on choice of officials. Marquis Kido, who is barely five feet tall, weighs only 120 pounds, requires only two-thirds of the orthodox amount of silk for a kimono, and has such tiny feet that he has to buy children's shoes, humbly begged a short period of reflection. The period was as short as he is, for Marquis Kido's mind was all made up. So was the Emperor's mind, the Army...
Outside of the story itself, the picture is apt to irritate any one who has been to Honolulu, because of the heavy fog and the overcoats that appear in one scene of the picture. Another small point: although Chan is meant to be Chinese, his bathrobe is a Japanese kimono. You can figure that...
...huge Japanese lay half asleep on the immaculate mats of his living-room floor. Wall panels had been pulled wide so that he could contemplate his precise garden and bask in the afternoon sunshine. His brown, rough-silk kimono lay open from shoulder to ankle, his undershirt was unbuttoned, he wiggled his toes in white, mitten-like socks. His radio blared a grunt-by-grunt account of the winter sumo wrestling matches...
Britain's reply when delivered was tailored not like a kimono but in the calm coat-&-pants language of international law. It set off new Japanese frenzies. It was "legalistic," said the Foreign Office, and did nothing to assuage Japan's dignity, injured by this insult "right in her front garden" - "on her very doorstep." Properly angered, Japan tightened the Tientsin blockade - stopped the passage of food into the British concession, turned on the juice in the encircling electrified barbed wire. None but Italians and White Russians were allowed to take food into the concession. Concession prices rose...